Elementary School in Cloverley

Credit: DA Architects + Planning

New school to meet the growing needs of North Vancouver

In its 50-plus year history, Pomerleau has built over 80 schools across Canada, contributing to creating spaces for young minds to learn, grow and socialize. By being selected as the general contractor to build a new school in the Cloverley neighbourhood of North Vancouver, BC, we will be addressing capacity challenges in this fast-growing community.

Once built, this new two-storey elementary school will be able to accommodate up to 585 students, from daycare right up to the end of primary school. The school will provide facilities to meet the modern-day and future needs of teaching and learning, ensure the well-being of students and staff, and build community connections, through the common green spaces created and community amenities provided.

North Vancouver School District selected Pomerleau for its proven expertise in delivering infrastructure projects that benefit students, families, and the broader community and that align with the province’s vision of making education accessible and equitable for all families.In addition, our demonstrated best practices to uphold energy and efficiency standards and meet sustainable construction methods, such as building to mass timber specifications, set us apart.

Community interest in project

Given the community’s interest in this project, we are in engaging the surrounding neighbourhood and communicating the construction's progress and noise, dust and traffic mitigations implemented. 

Pomerleau is also bringing its expertise in mass timber construction to this project, thereby directly supporting the Government of British Columbia’s Wood First Initiative, which positions wood as a building material of choice. It will also implement Greenhouse Gas reduction measures that reduce GHG emissions by close to 84% and directly support the BC government’s sustainability goals and our own ESG strategy.

Environmental practices

Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The current design is an all-electric facility that is anticipated to reduce operational greenhouse gas emissions by over 80% compared to a traditional school design of similar size. Even though the operational carbon emitted is extremely low, the team remains committed to exploring additional ways of reducing embodied carbon through the materials selected, thereby maintaining its commitment of being carbon neutral by 2050. 

Renewable Energy: The design includes roof-mounted PV panels over the Learning Commons and the remaining south-facing roof area has been designed to accommodate additional PV panels in the future.  

Storm Water Management: The project incorporates a bio-swale adjacent to the parking lot.