Federal Properties in Transition: Tunney’s Pasture and Confederation Heights

May 14, 2025 | EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING | STRUCTURED

4.00 ConEd Learning Hours
8:30 am - 12:30 pm

To attend this session, registrants must meet in the Conference Lounge: Provinces & Confederation I Kreitmaker Experiential Learning Dispatch Hub + Foyer of the Westin Ottawa Hotel

In planning for the growth and improvement of Canada’s Capital in the post-war period, the federal government acquired multiple properties to build new office campuses. Two key sites were Tunney’s Pasture (~49 hectares) and Confederation Heights (~188 hectares). While both campuses were to be headquarters for government agencies, their pre-federal histories, land uses, and topographies led to distinctive design and development approaches. Now, 75 years later, their stories are merging once again as they each become the focus of federal divestment and development plans through the leadership of Canada Lands Company (Canada Lands) and Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC). This session is offered through Heritage Ottawa.

Learning Objectives 
1. Understand the planning processes underway in Ottawa for large federal properties identified for redevelopment into mixed use communities.
2, Analyze how planning and design innovations are enabling the transformation and adaptive reuse of post-war Modern buildings and landscapes.  
3. Learn about the work of the Canada Lands Company as key partner with federal, municipal, and other partners in the planning and design of large-scale projects to meet social, urban, and housing objectives. 
3. Examine the way in which heritage conservation is being integrated into each step of planning and design to create new communities within existing institutional campuses. 

Victoria Angel, CAHP, ERA Architects
Katherine Constantine, MA Environment and Management, Canada Lands Company
Natalie Anderson Rathwell, CAHP, Matrix Heritage

This session is Level 2 (Lightly Active). Dress for weather conditions and wear comfortable clothing and footwear. Consider bringing a refillable water bottle and your camera. 

Please note: Participants will gather and depart from the Kreitmaker Experiential Learning Dispatch Hub located in the Conference Lounge.

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