Innovation
Known for excellence in design and innovation, Salter Pilon and our predecessors have been recognized by our peers on numerous occasions.
The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre and North Western Ontario Regional Cancer Centre was awarded the 2006 Building Magazine Outside the Box Winner-Architecturally Innovative Design.
In 2006, our design of the Markhaven Home for Seniors received a Design Excellence Award of Merit by the Town of Markham for exceeding the Town's design objectives for environmental enhancement and sustainability, integration within the neighbourhood and strong connections to the surrounding park and natural open space.
In 2005, we have been presented with the Ontario Association of Architects Architectural Award of Excellence for Institutional buildings (over $10 million)
The 2005 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Award of Excellence - Innovation in Architecture Award for our work on the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre and North Western Ontario Regional Cancer Centre.
Our design of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre and North Western Ontario Regional Cancer Centre received a Canadian Wood Council Woodworks award in 2004.
Our Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre and North Western Ontario Regional Cancer Centre received the 2004 Hardsurface Awards Project of the Year from the Terrazzo, Tile and Marble Association of Canada.
The year 2003 brought the Peter J. Marshall Ontario Municipal Innovation Award for Victoria Village, the transformation of the abandoned Royal Victoria Hospital into a "vital new community health care centre", focused upon the seniors of our community.
In 2002, the firm was awarded the Ontario Association of Architects Innovative Practice of the Year in recognition of our creative achievement of business and architectural goals through effective collaboration and innovation.
Our Domus Condominium project in Toronto received the Greater Toronto Homebuilder's Association 2001 Condominium of the Year.
The Ontario Provincial Police General Headquarters in Orillia was the recipient of the 2000 American Institute of Architects Justice Facility Award of Excellence.
We believe that our innovative nature was fully demonstrated in the most concrete of terms when, in late 1983, we ventured into the world of computer aided design, one of only seven architectural firms in Canada to adopt that pioneering role. Our application of computer technology to the practice of architecture provided the firm with international recognition and included presentations in the UK, Israel, Japan, New York, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and Anaheim.
While no one can today claim leadership in a dynamic variable like technology, we continue to maintain a trend setting position today, to the benefit of our clients. Our selection of Autodesk Revit as a drawing platform is a testament of that. Autodesk Revit, our future in CADD, is a state-of-the-art building information modeling system that works the way you think. With its parametric change technology, the design and documentation is automatically coordinated, consistent and complete. Our office has carried out the documentation of two school projects, Jersey Public School and Teston Village Public School, for the York District School Board using this drafting platform.
