Consulting Services

The vendor is required to provide consulting services for multi-site spray pad and park improvements.
- Include for services:
• Apply crime preventions through environmental design (CPTED) principles.
• Comply with municipal planning or zoning by-laws, other construction industry standards, ordinances and regulations for structural, health, safety and environmental requirements, including the occupational health and safety act,
• Provide appropriate layout, configuration, orientation and grading of development components to optimize use and function, views, safety, drainage and desired relationships between uses/facilities.
• Comply with the current state building code.
• Apply low impact development (lid) practices and site sustainability solutions for: storm water management, heat island mitigation, reduction of light pollution, energy conservation and efficiency, water conservation, naturalizing landscapes and construction materials and methods.
• Provide for efficient operations and maintenance of the park and its components, materials, equipment and products. minimize maintenance requirements, and provide for ease of waste collection, snow removal etc.
• Provide for lifecycle durability and ease of replacement.
• Complete the project on time and on budget.
• Grading
o Provide appropriate site planning and grading of development components for drainage, runoff and separation of uses and facilities, while making best use of existing topography where possible.
o Provide for a balance of cut and fill.
o Do not alter grades beyond the park property limits.
o Slope shall not exceed 33%.
o Slopes exceeding 25% should be planted to avoid the need for grass cutting. • Site servicing
o Develop a complete site servicing system including a storm water management system, servicing for storm, water service, electrical and other public utilities as required for the operations of the park.
• Vehicular circulation
o Provide for a complete, safe, efficient vehicular circulation system, addressing user needs, emergency and maintenance requirements.
o Integrate fire truck and emergency vehicles route(s).
o Integrate parks operations maintenance routes, typically 3.5m wide.
o Include controlled internal vehicular access with necessary gates/signage permitting access of fire trucks, emergency vehicles, maintenance trucks, supply/delivery vehicles, vendors, portable stage and special event assembly, as may be required.
o Provide adequate snow clearing storage and delivery areas.
o Design to support the heaviest vehicle load anticipated.
o Provide adequate turning radii, view lines and setbacks to furnishings and program elements.
o Integrate with pedestrian circulation for an efficient, consolidated circulation system.
• Pedestrian circulation
o Develop a safe, intuitive, hierarchical pedestrian circulation system that accommodates multiple user groups and their needs.
o Provide for intuitive wayfinding
o Recognize that park users will travel to the site using a variety of methods: foot (pedestrian), bicycle, personal vehicle, transit and other modes.
o Provide 3.0m wide park trails.
o Provide 3.5m wide multi use trails, as confirmed by the city.
o Provide access to and between program elements and destinations within the park.
o Provide for bicycle parking to serve regular park needs.
o Provide access to the site’s natural features which avoids or minimizes impacts to ecological features and functions.
o Provide adequate snow clearing storage and delivery areas.
o Provide logical access points into park for pedestrians.
o Integrate with vehicular circulation for an efficient, consolidated circulation system.
• Park signage and wayfinding system
o Provide comprehensive system of wayfinding elements and signage to support park uses and program.
o Signs to be considered
▪ Interpretive signage,
▪ Park orientation map,
▪ Directional and wayfinding (pedestrian, vehicular, bicycle),
▪ Instructional signs
▪ Regulatory and
▪ Park identification signs including park name/address
o Wayfinding elements to be considered
▪ Views and vistas.
▪ Park lighting.
▪ Vehicular and pedestrian circulation systems.
▪ Landmarks.
▪ Pavement markers
• Site furnishings
o Per park development design guidelines.
o Provide for site furnishings throughout the park to support park uses and program, user accessibility and comfort.
o Site furnishings to be considered include benches, bike racks, vandal resistant drinking fountain(s) and bottle stations, trash and recycling containers, bollards and access control gates.
o Materials must be durable, vandal-proof, have no-maintenance finishes, and must be corrosion and UV-fading resistant.
o Product selections to permit fast, economical and efficient acquisition of replacement.
o Provide concrete pads or direct bury installations as confirmed by the city.
o Coordinate style, scale and color.
• Open lawn areas
o Provide open lawn areas, free of obstruction to accommodate unstructured, passive uses, informal gatherings and non-programmed casual recreation
o Provide flexibility for multiple uses.
o Provide for moderate volumes of pedestrian traffic and recreational games.
o Allow for multi-season use.
o Integrate with seating opportunities.
• Playgrounds
o Play equipment/systems are to be selected from city pre‐qualified play system vendors.
o Conform to the latest country standards association standards (can/CSA z614‐20)
o “Children’s playground equipment and Surfacing” as certified by IPEMA or other qualified third‐party certification.
o Provide materials that reflect foreseeable health country consumer product safety concerns.
o Appeal to both children and adults –appeal to children’s interest and sense of risk in play yet speak to caregivers’ reasonable sense of equipment safety.
o Provide play opportunities for children according to age groups 18 months to 5 years and 5 to 12 years.
o Provide design tolerances that leave room for error without challenge within the CSA
o Standard’s tolerance limits, including slide angle, stepladder angle, overhead ladder height, and slip resistance tolerances.
o Maximize the quantity and variety of play elements.
o Provide finishes that meet or exceed playground industry standards for hardness, adhesion, and graffiti resistance.
o Components are expected to perform for at least 25 years under typical use and under the city’s climate and weather conditions.
o Provide watertight structures with no potential for water build‐up and ice damage.
o Rigid structures and rails are to have no visible deflection or rocking motion, and do not rattle, and are to be structurally sound.
o All components are to be easily maintained.
o Moving parts and fastening system(s) are to be proven low maintenance.
o Replacement parts are to be reasonably‐priced and readily available for the life of the playground.
o Satisfy requirements of the applicable city’s playground standards/category
o All inclusive barrier free playgrounds
▪ Custom built or pre‐manufactured play system(s) for neighborhood playgrounds
▪ CSA annex h compliant and inclusive
▪ Variable area
▪ Accessible resilient surfacing (various materials including rubber, sand and engineered wood fiber)
▪ Paved trail connection
▪ Accessible seating area
o Community playgrounds
▪ Pre‐manufactured play system(s) for neighborhood playgrounds
▪ CSA annex h compliant
▪ 350m² approximate typical area
▪ Accessible resilient surfacing (typically engineered wood FIBRE)
▪ Separate sand play area
▪ Paved trail connection
▪ Accessible seating area
o Explore opportunities for natural and/or adventure play elements.
• Spray pads
o Adhere to best practices for public health, meeting the requirements of the clean water act, state building code, country standards association (CSA) –b64 series standard, as well as, other current applicable legislation, municipal and regional by‐laws.
o Design a facility that is appropriate for the size of the park and local usage.
o Design an efficient and cost-effective operating system that allows for continual drainage of water from the pad with no pooling water.
o Provide for cost efficient site servicing, including integration of existing services where possible.
o Use clean potable water.
o Provide for discharge to storm drains.
o Provide a creative, interactive water play system that appeals to a diversity of users and abilities.
o Minimize noise to adjacent residential homes and provide buffering as may be required.
o Provide sun/shade seating options.
o Provide connections to existing park trail system.
• Shade structures
o Satisfy all applicable permits and approvals including but not limited to building permit, fire code and SPAX.
o Provide shade structures that support park users and program, user accessibility and comfort.
o Shade structures can either be sail based or steel and placed for users’ comfort at seating or integrated within playground.
o Materials must be durable, vandal‐proof, have no‐maintenance finishes, and must be corrosion and UV‐fading resistant.
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: May 13, 2025