Council peeks at eco-friendly cop-shop

City councillors got an early look at plans for a big new RCMP building to be located in the north end of Iqaluit’s Base area.

In a show-and-tell-session conducted on behalf of the RCMP, Terry Grey, an architect with Ferguson Simek Clark, said builders would finish installing piles at the site by the fall of 2005, and begin construction of “phase one” of the building.

More materials would arrive on the 2006 and 2007 sealift, and the building would be finished by December of 2007.

The building would house Nunavut’s “V” division headquarters, a new Iqaluit headquarters, and various regional policing functions: major crimes, forensic ID, a dog section, and a training area.

The RCMP has yet to file an application for a full development permit. That will likely happen early in the new year, Grey said.

And he said the new building would follow an even more stringent set of environmental standards than Iqaluit’s new Joamie School building.