Simon Fraser University

Facilities and location

Simon Fraser University has 3 campuses: Its main campus in Burnaby, a satellite campus in Vancouver's Downtown at Harbour Centre, and the new SFU Surrey campus. The Technical University of British Columbia, (TechBC), a technical university created by the New Democratic government of British Columbia, was dismantled and given to SFU, now known as SFU Surrey. The library on the main campus is called the W. A. C. Bennett Library, named after the Social Credit Premier of B.C. who established it.

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Vancouver - Harbour Centre - SFU Surrey - TechBC - New Democratic - British Columbia - W. A. C. Bennett - Social Credit

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The main campus is 1.7 km² located atop Burnaby Mountain, at an elevation of 400 metres. This campus was designed by Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey after the pair won a design competition in 1963. The campus is somewhat unusual architecturally in its avoidance of multistory buildings.

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Burnaby Mountain - Arthur Erickson - Geoffrey Massey

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At present, the bulk of Burnaby Mountain is a park. Apart from SFU and associated industrial/technical park Discovery Park, there has been little development. However, the university has plans for an 810,000 square metre housing and commercial development atop the mountain. The planned name is UniverCity. The site will contain multiple condominiums and townhouses, with several buildings already complete and occupied as of July 2005. The main campus was also to be the site of a world-class speed skating oval for the 2010 Winter Olympics; however the 2010 organizing committee has decided it will now be built in nearby city Richmond, British Columbia.

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UniverCity - Speed skating - 2010 Winter Olympics - Richmond, British Columbia

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The university has an archeological museum and three art galleries.

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SFU also works with other universities and agencies to operate joint research facilities. These include Bamfield Marine Station, a major centre for teaching and research in marine biology; TRIUMF, a powerful cyclotron used in subatomic physics and chemistry research; MITACS, headquarters of this network centre of excellence for 26 universities and 75 companies.

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Bamfield Marine Station - TRIUMF

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