TRIUMF

Location:

4004 Wesbrook Mall

Date:

1969

Architect:

Underwood, McKinley, Camerson & Smith

Cost:

$36 million

Sources of funds:

n/a

Architectural features:

The permanent one is a single floor building clad in light green painted steel siding while the temporary buildings have different colour and materials for their exterior.

Construction Type:

Concrete

Notes:

It is an acronym for Tri-Universities Meson Facility, the huge atomic research lab in UBC. This particle physics research facility was built and jointly run by a consortium of three (later four) universities (University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria, and the University of Alberta) to work on research on nuclear science.

Sources:

Ceremonies Office; UBC Buildings (Campus Planning)

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