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Katz Group Centre for Pharmacy and Health Research, U of A, Edmonton Strathcona County Community Centre, Sherwood Park
HFKS HFKS Architects Inc.: Expertise. Uncompromised. Accountable. HFKS Architects Inc. may be Alberta’s best kept secret. Although you have seen and admired their work across Alberta, many are unaware of the team and history behind some of the province’s most iconic buildings and other structures. Designing away from the limelight, HFKS has created, restored and improved many of Alberta’s high-profile healthcare, long term care, research, historical buildings and infrastructure – projects with construction values that, at times, exceed $400 million per project. “With experience comes design excellence,” points out Sergio Poles, an architect and one of four HFKS principals. “We are in close contact with our clients and their operations. We understand their projects and their needs,” agree architects/ principals: Christopher Filipowicz and Janet Koshuta, as A. Robert Timms, also a HFKS principal and David Brookes, specification
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writer, and the firm’s longest running member (since 1968) join the conversation. The firm focuses on design excellence and projects that will enhance or change lives, and they do this across a diverse range of sectors. From long term care facilities to biohazard containment laboratories, municipal buildings to infrastructure, preserving history through replication and restoration, and designing beautiful places of worship, HFKS is the firm that can do it.
As an experienced leader in laboratory design, HFKS’ projects include laboratories for chemistry, physics, microbiology, vivarium, and molecular genetics. “There are four levels of general bio safety classification”, Timms explains. “We have designed a level three (BSL3) and several level two facilities (BSL2).” “This speaks to the very careful process, from the initial planning, through design and documentation to execution, contract administration and post-construction,” adds Filipowicz. HFKS’ laboratory work is proudly seen at the University of Alberta’s Li Ka Shing Centre for Research Innovation, the Katz Group Centre for Pharmacy and Health Research, the Heritage Medical Research Centre, chemical technology and culinary arts instructional labs at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, along with many other labs that focus on innovation, research, health and technology. Balmoral Medical Isotope & Cyclotron Facility was a unique project for HFKS. Through repurposing
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