Company Overview

COMPANY PROFILE:

GEC Architecture is a Calgary-based architectural, planning, and interior design firm, celebrating 40 years in 2006. Since 1966, GEC has completed over 1, 350 buildings, in addition to numerous planning studies and functional programming and interior design commissions. Projects throughout western Canada, Ontario, the United States, China and Russia have ranged from single-family housing to large-scale recreational, commercial, institutional and industrial work.

GEC Architecture has designed several complex, one-of-a-kind buildings, and through this experience has earned an excellent reputation for design, technical expertise and project administration. The firm has received a number of awards for design and engineering originality. These projects require the design team to approach a task with an open mind, participate in intensive conceptual thinking and formulate definitive solutions. The team also applies state-of-the-art knowledge of the building sciences to develop unique solutions to technical problems.

Council of Education Facility Planners International Outstanding Design for Educational Environment Modernization Banff Community High School (2005)

Mayor's Urban Design Awards - Honorable Mention, Urban Design 7th Avenue LRT Station & Pedestrian Environment Upgrades (2005)

Alberta Association of Architects / Chronicle of Significant Alberta Architecture (2003)

• Medicine Hat City Hall, Medicine Hat, AB
• Olympic Oval, Calgary, AB
• Olympic (Pengrowth) Saddledome, Calgary, AB

Building Owners and Managers Association Calgary Award - Building of the Year Government/Institutional Facility 2002 Calgary TELUS Convention Centre Expansion, Calgary, Alberta

Interior Designers of Alberta - Recognition of Excellence of Interior Design in Alberta for Prince's Island Estates (1995)

PCI - Prestressed Concrete Institute for excellence in architectural and engineering design using precast prestressed concrete: 1980, 1983, 1984, 1987.

Governor General's Medals for Architecture: Medicine Hat City Hall (1986), Alberta Research Council (1986)

Athletic Business - recognition of an especially outstanding sports/recreation facility: 1986, 1987.

Research & Development Magazine - High Honours in the 1987 Laboratory of the Year.

Urban Design Award - 1980.

Alberta Association of Architects Design Awards: Carburn Park (1983), Village Square Leisure Centre (1983).

Alberta Chapter American Concrete Institute - Award of excellence for Design construction in concrete: Canadian Airlines Saddledome (1988), Eric Harvey Pedestrian Bridge (1989), Olympic Oval (1988).

Post Tensioning Institute 1987 Award of Excellence for Olympic Oval.

Associations:

• Members of Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
• Members of Alberta Association of Architects
• Members of Architectural Institute of British Columbia

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Additional Details

Legal Name: GEC Architecture

Number of Employees: 35

Total Sales ($CDN): $100,000 - $200,000

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Services

• Architect - Architectural Programming
• Architect - Commercial (low Rise)
• Architect - Education - Other
• Architect - Education - Universities
• Architect - Feasibility Study
• Architect - Functional Programming
• Architect - Government
• Architect - Graphics
• Architect - Health Care - Hospitals
• Architect - Health Care - Other
• Architect - Industrial
• Architect - Interior Design
• Architect - Life Cycle Costing
• Architect - Master Planning
• Architect - Office Building - High Rise
• Architect - Office Building - Low Rise
• Architect - Other (specify)
• Architect - Project Construction Management
• Architect - Residential - High Rise
• Architect - Residential - Low Cost
• Architect - Residential - Single Family
• Architect - Site Analysis
• Architect - Sports Facilities
• Architect - Urban Design

NAICS Categories

• 541310 Architectural Services
• 541320 Landscape Architectural Services
• 541410 Interior Design Services

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