AMPEL
8500 square meter, L-shaped, reinforced-concrete structure featuring a 5-storey laboratory wing with a penthouse and a high-head laboratory
Location: University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Date built: 1995
Date of test: 2003
Purpose of Test: The Brimacombe Building, or the Advanced Material and Process Engineering Laboratory (AMPEL), study aimed to thoroughly examine the floor vibration behaviour of the laboratory building, located on the campus of the University of British Columbia. The building is a multi-disciplinary facility, intended to be a high performance structure suitable for vibration sensitive research.
