ETDE FM Canada, Ecovert Group's operating company in Canada, has reached financial close on the Green Timbers Accommodation Partners (GTAP) project, a Public Private Partnership (PPP) contract for the new E-Division headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada's national police force.
The RCMP headquarters, in Surrey, British Columbia (western Canada), will be made up of three buildings spanning an area of 76,000m2 on a 14-hectare site. It will house up to 3,000 detachment members and civilian staff, currently based in a number of older buildings throughout the region.
ETDE FM Canada’s contract is for a 25-year FM and lifecycle concession period, starting December 2012. Via a 95-strong team, the company will deliver facilities and plant maintenance, cleaning, waste management, information management services (CMMS, BMS and energy management systems), food services, utilities management and landscaping, as well as other miscellaneous services.
The GTAP project team is made up of ETDE FM Canada, sister construction company Bouygues Bâtiment International and HSBC Specialist Investments Ltd Infrastructure Fund III.
Construction began in May 2010, with completion scheduled for December 2012. The building will be constructed to LEED* Gold standard and will be managed to BOMA BESt**.
Bruno Bodin, CEO of ETDE FM Canada, says “We are delighted to have signed this new PPP contract in British Columbia. We look forward to working closely with the RCMP towards the completion of its new headquarters, exemplary in energy and environmental performance.”
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*The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ encourages and accelerates global adoption of sustainable green building and development practices through the creation and implementation of universally understood and accepted tools and performance criteria.
** BOMA BESt (Building Environmental Standards) is a national program launched in 2005 by BOMA Canada to address an industry need for realistic standards for energy and environmental performance of existing buildings based on accurate, independently verified information.
About ETDE FM Canada www.etdefmcanada.com
ETDE Facility Management Canada is ETDE’s FM division in Canada, established in British Columbia in 2008. Delivering high quality services on large, complex, single and multi-site facilities, the company’s expertise covers projects in Public Private Partnerships (P3), long-term contracts on a design, build, finance and operate basis as well as traditional single service, multiple service and total FM services to established sites.
ETDE FM Canada has won a number of contracts, including the new Surrey Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre and the Green Timbers Accommodation Partners (GTAP) project, the new E-Division Headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. ETDE FM Canada is a subsidiary of ETDE www.etde.fr/pages/eng and more widely, the global Bouygues Group, www.bouygues.com/en/home. ETDE provides facility services and energy solutions to public and private clients in energy, industry, services, transport, nuclear energy and telecommunications. ETDE has FM subsidiaries in the UK, France, Switzerland, Italy, Kuwait and Qatar in addition to Canada.
About HSBC Infrastructure Fund III
HSBC Infrastructure Fund III is a close-ended fund investing in greenfield PPP infrastructure projects and managed by HSBC Specialist Fund Management Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Specialist Investments Limited (HSIL), the dedicated infrastructure and real estate investment group of HSBC. HSFML is authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. The HSBC infrastructure team has successfully invested in infrastructure since 1997 and signed over 50 Greenfield infrastructure investments with total capital expenditure exceeding US$15 billion, defined as project costs at financial close.