Eric Hamber Secondary School Replacement Project
The new school funded by the Provincial Seismic Mitigation Program will provide a state-of-the-art learning environment for 1,700 students from grades 8 to 12.
Eric Hamber Secondary School Replacement Project
Project Details
As part of the Provincial Seismic Mitigation Program, the Ministry of Education announced funding for the replacement of Eric Hamber Secondary School, originally built in 1962, with a new school on the northwest corner of the existing site.
The new school will be approximately 15,000 square metres in size. It will provide a state-of-the-art learning environment for 1,700 students from grades 8 – 12. In addition, a 69-space childcare facility for ages zero to four is being proposed. This 1,500 square metre childcare facility is funded by the City of Vancouver, and is over and above the approved school size.
It is the Ministry’s top priority to ensure all students in B.C. attend seismically safe schools as soon as possible. The existing school remained operational during construction and will then function as a swing space for other seismic school projects, after which it will be demolished. Being a swing space will ensure other schools are able to complete the much-needed seismic work and allow all students and educators in B.C. to be in a seismically safe environment.
The new school will be built to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold standards. Design and construction commenced in early 2020. The new Eric Hamber Secondary School welcomed students in the fall of 2024.
The Project was procured using a design-build approach.
| Client: | Vancouver Board of Education of School District No. 39 – Vancouver |
| Project Cost: | Approximately $92 million (Design-Build contract value) |
| Partner: | Bird Design-Build Construction Inc. |
| Project Status: | Operational |
| Project Website: | Click to access website |
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Milestones
| Request for Qualifications issued | January 8, 2019 |
| Public Information Session | January 11, 2019 |
| Request for Qualifications closed | March 5, 2019 |
| Shortlist announced | July 31, 2019 |
| Request for Proposals issued | July 31, 2019 |
| Contract award | April 30, 2020 |
| Design to begin | May 2020 |
| Construction to begin | Early 2021 |
| Construction completed | Fall 2024 |
Project Updates
- More Vancouver students in new, seismically safer school
- Eric Hamber students to get new, safer school
Procurement Documents
- Design-Build Agreement – (April 30, 2020)
- RFP Fairness Report – (February 19, 2020)
- RFP Conformed – (January 24, 2020)
- RFQ Conformed – (January 14, 2019)
- RFQ Fairness Report – (April 9, 2019)
Project Map
Project Contacts
Please refer to the ‘Contact Information’ section of the VSB EH webpage.