BEI provided complete architectural/engineering services to expand the Bramalea Plant.  These services included adding 310,300 s.f. to the existing body shop.  It also included extensively reworking the site.  The site work involved relocation of loop roads and utilities, adding parking lots, relocating the emergency medical unit, and creating new entrances on a 100-acre site.   In addition, site work also included a new employee parking lot, which contributed 350 new spaces, and a new employee entrance on the north end of the facility.  This entrance was completely equipped with turnstiles, security fencing, and access roads.  Not only was the work completed successfully and in accordance with all Canadian codes and standards, BEI also surpassed Chrysler's stringent cost-cutting requirements.  Under the automaker's SCORE (Supplier Cost Reduction Effort) program, all suppliers are required to develop strategies to save time and money.  BEI's goal was to save $1 million – a goal that was not only met by exceeded.

Among specific pieces of the project, the body shop work consisted of two phases, the first adding 215,000 square feet, including offices and truck docks.  A second phase consisted of about 95,300 square feet including new employee facilities, truck docks, and related equipment.  In both additions, BEI designed a high bay with a walkway that is open to the production floor below.  The walkway gives access to air handling units, boilers, and substations. 

On the south side of the plant, an employee aisle with a skylight runs the length of the building and continues to an employee entrance which rises to the full height of the bay.  This employee aisle is designed to give workers not only easy access throughout the plant but a ceremonial entrance way that celebrates their efforts.  The skylight, meanwhile, permits a humanizing natural light to penetrate to the work spaces.