Cellcentric is a world-class fuel cell producer established on thirty years of combined development experience from the Daimler Truck AG and Volvo Groups. The Burnaby Plant in British Columbia is a key production facility in Cellcentric’s North American operations, and the site was expanded to accommodate new warehouse and processing spaces to support the company’s growing fuel cell manufacturing capacity.
For a technically advanced manufacturing facility of this kind, accurate are not simply a handover formality; they are the foundation of every future maintenance, modification and compliance activity carried out on the building’s services. Dewick & Associates was engaged by Core Mechanical Ltd. to produce the Mechanical, Fire and Plumbing As-Built Drawings for the expansion project, using the Mechanical Contractor’s redline mark-ups and the existing building CAD drawings as the basis for a complete, accurate 2D-CAD record of the installation as delivered.
Our scope covered fire protection overviews; mechanical services including AHUs, chillers, split air conditioning, expansion tanks, gas rooftop units and fans; and plumbing systems including sanitary sewer drainage, acid neutraliser, cold and hot water, and compressed air systems.
By Alexandra Vuksa
Credit: The image has been generated by AI and depicts a conceptual Cellcentric plant base. It is not the actual site.
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Core Mechanical Ltd is a mechanical contractor delivering complex commercial and industrial mechanical installations.
Core Mechanical managed the comprehensive mechanical and fire protection installation for the Cellcentric Burnaby Plant expansion, spanning both new processing areas and warehouse facilities. This technically complex manufacturing environment required a diverse range of systems, from standard plumbing and HVAC to specialised compressed air and acid neutralisation. To support this scope, Core Mechanical sought a documentation expert capable of efficiently converting their redline mark-ups into precise, professional 2D-CAD As-Built Drawings without straining their internal team.
Delivering accurate as-built drawings for the Cellcentric Burnaby plant expansion required a highly methodical approach to drafting. The core challenge lay in interpreting the mechanical contractor’s complex redline mark-ups and translating them into formal, precise CAD drawings that captured the exact “as-installed” state of the facility. Because the facility serves a specialised industrial manufacturing function, the drafting scope spanned an incredibly diverse range of systems. The team had to seamlessly navigate both standard building HVAC services and complex process piping networks, including specialized acid neutralisation and high-pressure compressed air systems.
Managing this diverse technical scope required a drafting team with deep expertise in both standard building services conventions and specialised industrial process piping notation. Beyond the technical drafting itself, project coordination presented its own set of challenges. To ensure long-term operational value for the client, the final drawing package had to be meticulously cross-referenced, clearly coordinated across all engineering disciplines, and easily accessible to the entire project team.
Dewick & Associates’ in-house drafting team utilised Core Mechanical’s detailed redline mark-ups alongside the existing building CAD files to establish a definitive baseline for the documentation. From this foundation, the team produced a comprehensive set of 2D-CAD as-built drawings that accurately captured the precise physical layouts of all new installations.
The drafting scope was systematically organized to address the unique complexities of each engineering discipline. The final drawing package covered all core mechanical systems, fire protection overviews, HVAC plant layouts, intricate process piping networks, and commercial plumbing systems. Each system was drafted in strict accordance with relevant industrial and building services conventions.
To streamline the final delivery and review process, the complete drawing set was issued in both editable CAD and high-resolution PDF formats. Dewick & Associates managed the distribution via a secure, in-house shared drive. This centralised platform provided Core Mechanical and the broader project team with controlled, version-tracked access to all project deliverables throughout the handover phase.
The collaboration successfully delivered a complete, accurate, and fully coordinated set of 2D-CAD as-built drawings for the mechanical, fire protection, and plumbing infrastructure across the Cellcentric Burnaby plant expansion. Core Mechanical and their project partners received a professional engineering record that precisely reflects the final asset geometry and system configurations.
This comprehensive documentation provides the facility’s operations and maintenance teams with an invaluable reference tool. By capturing the exact as-installed conditions, the drawings optimize ongoing plant operations and significantly reduce the risk of misinterpretation during future maintenance routines, facility modifications, or regulatory compliance inspections.
On a broader scale, this precise technical handover directly supports Cellcentric’s operational readiness. With a fully documented infrastructure, the Burnaby facility is well-positioned to advance the manufacturing and development of its world-class hydrogen fuel cell technology, ultimately driving clean energy solutions for some of the world’s largest commercial vehicle programs.
The content in this case study has been informed by project documentation and client communication provided to Dewick & Associates during and following the completion of the project. Where external sources have contributed to our understanding of relevant standards or industry practice, these are listed below.
The image has been generated by AI and depicts a conceptual Cellcentric plant base. It is not the actual site.
Note: Some content in this case study draws on a combination of sources rather than direct quotation. Where this is the case, contributing sources are acknowledged above rather than cited inline.
Based on marked up drawings, to reflect the installed equipment configuration, provision of As Installed / As Built / As Fitted Drawings in AutoCAD and PDF format by in house skilled drafters.
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