Enterprise case launched for contemporary, new museum

The ultimate enterprise case for a brand new, state-of-the-art Royal BC Museum (RBCM) is out there on-line.

The enterprise case was developed to allow the RBCM to fulfill its legislated mandate to guard BC’s pure and human historical past for British Columbians at the moment and sooner or later. It accommodates detailed analyzes to tell choices, together with challenge rationale, service supply and procurement choices, labor alternate options, and implementation plans and timelines. The enterprise case from in depth challenge analysis throughout a five-year interval, confirming the museum is on the finish of its helpful life with prices to improve current buildings greater than these to interchange them with a brand new, fashionable facility.

Authorities’s capital planning course of requires the event of a proper enterprise case following approval of an idea plan. For extra transparency, authorities can be making the museum challenge idea plan out there on-line. Developed in 2018, the plan assessed the price of choices to restore, revitalize or change the museum, and confirmed that the price of restore or revitalization can be greater than constructing a brand new museum with out assembly general challenge targets.

In-depth analyzes within the paperwork determine that the museum buildings require in depth remediation and reconstruction to fulfill present constructing codes, together with seismic, accessibility and power effectivity requirements, in addition to to securely take away hazardous supplies equivalent to asbestos, lead and arsenic, and produce the museum is as much as worldwide requirements for internet hosting world-class exhibitions.

That is the primary public launch of a enterprise case and idea plan for a vertical infrastructure challenge in BC Redacted content material within the paperwork is proscribed to business and procurement parts affecting the aggressive course of. Aggressive info is withheld in all paperwork launched to the general public.

The enterprise case was knowledgeable below the next timeline:

• 2006, 2014 and 2015 – Constructing assessments determine the necessity for main seismic and structural enhancements.
• October 2018 – Authorities receives an idea plan as required below the Province’s capital asset administration framework for capital initiatives greater than $50 million. Produced by Partnerships BC, now Infrastructure BC, with enter from the RBCM and the Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Tradition and Sport, the plan outlines challenge want, alternate options to handle the necessity and preliminary suggestions, equivalent to detailed constructing assessments.
• December 2018 – Authorities approves the idea plan, prompting the event of a proper enterprise case for the substitute of the museum on the Victoria downtown website.
• October 2019 – Authorities and the RBCM launch What We Heard, a report on enter collected from engagement with the general public, together with Indigenous communities, all through the province.
• Spring 2020 – Authorities receives a preliminary enterprise case, approves the event of the Collections and Analysis Constructing in Colwood and requests additional evaluation associated to the downtown museum. The preliminary enterprise case can be out there on-line in June 2022.
• December 2021 – The enterprise case is finalized by Infrastructure BC with enter from the RBCM, the Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Tradition and Sport, and the Transportation Funding Company (TI Corp.)
• March 2022 – Authorities approves the ultimate enterprise case for the downtown museum.

Sharing the enterprise case and idea plan with the general public displays the federal government’s dedication to transparency.

Be taught Extra:

View the 2021 enterprise case and 2018 idea plan at: https://www.royalbcmuseummodernization.ca/downtown-museum/

View the 2019 What We Heard report at: https://interact.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/websites/121/2019/12/RBCM_WhatWeHeard_DIGITALrev.pdf