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Canadian Light Source

scientific challenge using the strength of steel

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Some Key Numbers

Floor Area: Total area (12,700 square metres or about 3.0 acres): Equates to eight double tennis courts or 93 sheets of curling ice.
Main Hall: (6,806 square metres or about 1.7 acres): Equates to four double tennis courts or 50 sheets of curling ice.
Steel (1,300 tonnes to frame the building): Equivalent to 65 semi-trailer loads.
Roof trusses: Each of the eight main roof trusses weighs approximately 67 tonnes.

Contributors

Project/Construction Manager: UMA Projects
Synchrotron Designers and Engineers: Canadian Light Source (CLS)
Engineers: UMA Engineering Ltd.
Architect: AODBT Architects Ltd.
Geotechnical Engineers: AGRA Earth & Environmental
Steel Fabricator, Detailer & Erector: Supreme Steel Ltd.
The biggest science project in Canada in more than 30 years is complete at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.

 

The football field-sized, $173.5-million Canadian Light Source synchrotron project is a unique national facility that will light the way to a new era of science and innovation for both academe and industry. Canadian Light Source Inc. (CLSI) is wholly owned by the U of S and funded by federal, provincial, municipal, industrial and academic sources. It will begin operations in January, 2004.

 

More information can be found on the Canadian Light Source in the Spring 2003 Issue of Advantage Steel, as well as at the Canadian Light Source Inc. website.