The Chan Centre includes a 1,400-seat concert hall, a 160-275-seat flexible studio theatre, and a 110-seat cinema. The venue was designed to accommodate student activities as well as provide for the demands of touring professionals and includes adjustable acoustics to accommodate a variety of events. Damian consulted on the acoustics design of the auditoria and noise and vibration control. 

Damian performed a 5-year post opening study of the facility in 2003, and worked with the University in 2015, to design and replace the existing acoustic banners with ones more suited to the range of programming hosted in the concert hall. And in 2021, Damian studied the sound produced by various LED fixtures to inform the University’s planned lighting and audio-visual equipment upgrade and replacement.

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• Location:      Vancouver, BC, Canada
  Architect:     Revery Architecture
  Completion Dates:     1997, Acoustic Banners 2015, AV Replacement 2021.

  acoustics design

  performance audio
       and video systems

• Damian consulted on the acoustics design of the auditoria and noise and vibration control while at Artec Consultants.

• “The Chan Concert Hall in Vancouver? Fabulous, fabulous. Fantastic.”
  - Emanuel Ax, Pianist.

  “Now that I have worked in the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at the University of British Columbia, I have finally found a hall that is ideal!”
  - Don Harder, Staff Recording Engineer, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

  “Rattle shaped a gripping performance, direct and dramatic, and tracked down in the lyrical parts incomprehensible nuances and most terrible tendernesses. The CBSO coped with its part with honourable conviction and the utmost nobility, and I have not heard a better choir than the CBSC for a good few years...The audience broke into a frenetic ovation, which was wholly justified.”
  - Wiener Zeitung.

  AWARDS

  CRSI Design Award, Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute 2000
  LG Award in Architecture – Medal, AIBC
  Merit Award, USITT Architecture Awards
  Winner, BC Steel Design Awards