Gatineau 2 Library and Archives Preservation Centre

construction start

Opportunity The Gatineau 2 Preservation and Access Facility (referred to as “Gatineau 2”) is a response to Library and Archives Canada’s (LAC) ongoing needs for special purpose infrastructure providing appropriate preservation and access space for LAC’s analogue archival holdings. The project will be delivered through a public‑private partnership under the responsibility of Procurement Services and Procurement Canada, the department that acts as the federal government’s main purchasing agent, and LAC. The project will result in the construction of the first “net zero carbon” building dedicated to the preservation of archives in the Americas, the first Government of Canada building built to the requirements of Canada’s Greening Government Strategy, and the world’s largest preservation facility equipped with the advanced technology of an automated storage and retrieval system for archival materials. The vaults within the existing Preservation Centre will also be reconfigured as part of this project, to further optimize LAC’s collection storage capacity. The design and construction phases of the Gatineau 2 Preservation and Access Facility project are expected to create more than 1,300 direct and indirect jobs.

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