哈珀政府掷12亿建安全局豪华大楼 大洒纳税人钱

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哈珀政府掷12亿建安全局豪华大楼 大洒纳税人钱
2013-10-09 07:45 来源: 明报 作者:


加拿大通讯安全局新总部是一幢巨型玻璃摩天大楼，大厦外墙窗身全是特别切割。

哈珀政府励行撙节措施，却一掷近12亿元，为加拿大通讯安全局(Communications Security Establishment Canada)建设新总部，那是加拿大历来最昂贵的政府建筑。

加拿大通讯安全局新厦位於渥太华郊区，明年落成，可容纳大约2,000名雇员。这个联邦机构的主要任务是刺探外国人，入侵他们的电脑、查看他们的电子邮件和截听他们的电话。

新总部楼面面积比多伦多的加航中心(Air Canada Centre)大，建筑费相当於几间大城市医院的建设费用。

加拿大通讯安全局估计，新总部的建设费达到8.8亿元，熟知建设工程的消息来源说，计算所有成本後，造价接近12亿元。开发商已签订合约，在未来30年负责修缮大厦和其他服务，费用30亿元。

媒体和纳税人几乎无法核实，这些钱如何花费，因为差不多所有与建筑工程有关联的事情都是机密。

加拿大通讯安全局前主管亚当斯(John Adams)说，它是建筑奇观，由纳税人出资。

新总部是一幢巨型玻璃摩天大楼，大厦外墙窗身全是特别切割，需要特别安装，比一般办公大楼昂贵得多。

专家说，新总部的建设费高，因为它的保安功能。例如它的玻璃外墙有特别保安功能，防范间谍刺探。

所有建筑材料都要检查，有没有间谍窃听器，进入工地的车辆都要搜查，大约5,000名工人接受安检。

加拿大纳税人联盟(Canadian Taxpayers' Federation)主席托马斯(Gregory Thomas)说：「为政府雇员兴建豪华大楼，我相信国民不同意。」

新总部还有全国最强大的超级电脑、巨型发电机和冷气系统。它全面运作後，数据中心耗用的电力足够首都大部分地区照明。

 

[老华侨]

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加拿大通讯安全局新厦位於渥太华郊区，明年落成，可容纳大约2,000名雇员。。。。。

这对渥太华就业，可是利好消息！
幸亏没有被其它城市抢去。

建在哪？这应该是很醒目的了，我咋不知道呢？

 

[泰迪宝贝]

同问

 

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The Real Facts About CSE's New Building
In light of CBC's recent coverage of the Communications Security Establishment's new facility, CSE wishes to clarify the following:

Why it's needed
CSE needed a flexible and adaptable space for its 2000 employees. We had outgrown our current CSE campus, which was designed for a workforce half our current size.

We explored retrofitting and expanding the current campus, but that was found to be cost-prohibitive.

Getting best value for money
CSE examined all options for constructing its new facility. There were comprehensive business cases prepared for the Government by two separate organizations. The business cases examined both traditional Crown Construction and Public-Private Partnership models.

The results were independently validated by Deloitte.

Based on the studies, CSE concluded that P3 method of procurement offered the most value for money and the most long-term efficiencies, while providing cost and schedule certainty. This model also transfers all risks around construction and maintenance to the private sector.

P3 Canada estimates that over the life-cycle of the contract, the P3 Method will save taxpayers $176 million. Also, as a P3, the facility will be ready 3 years sooner than a more traditional procurement.

The life-cycle cost of $4.1 billion includes all financing, facilities management, most IT equipment and maintenance, and physical security operations for 30 years.

Ultimately, as a P3, no taxpayer dollars are spent until the facility is fully constructed and delivered according to the contract.

The project is on time and on budget.

The facility itself
CSE's new facility is mainly open-concept, with very few closed offices, to ensure employees collaborate and work together.

Contrary to the CBC report, the amenities in the facility are what one would expect to find in a modern, high-security workplace for 2000 professionals.

Again, contrary to the CBC report, there are no fireplaces in the facility.

It is also a green facility, being built to LEED Gold standards.

There is filtered water available for employees to discourage use of bottled water. This is the case in many schools and other facilities in Ottawa.

This modern, new work environment will help CSE more effectively respond to the Government of Canada's security and intelligence priorities.

http://www.cse-cst.gc.ca/home-accueil/media/media-2013-10-08-eng.html

 

[Anakin]

原来部门代码CES就是他们啊

 

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Inside Canada's top-secret billion-dollar spy palace
New intelligence headquarters has soaring atriums, grand staircases and filtered drinking fountains

While the Harper government is preaching government austerity, it is spending almost $1.2 billion on a new Ottawa headquarters for a little-known military spy agency.

It's the most expensive Canadian government building ever constructed.

Under tight security, CBC obtained an exclusive tour of the top secret complex that most Canadians will otherwise never get to see, a development even National Defence apparently thinks is so grandiose that the department dubbed the project “Camelot” in official documents.

When completed next year, the facility in suburban Ottawa will house the roughly 2,000 employees of the Communications Security Establishment Canada, a federal agency that spies mainly on foreigners by hacking into their computers, reading their email and intercepting their phone calls.

CSEC officially estimates the complex will cost $880 million. But sources close to the project say it will be closer to $1.2 billion by the time all the associated costs are tallied.The new CSEC headquarters will have more floor space than the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, and its cost would build several big city hospitals.

The developer has also been contracted to maintain the building and provide other services for another roughly $3 billion over the next 30 years.

It is virtually impossible for the media or taxpayers to verify the specifics of how all that money is actually being spent — almost everything to do with the project has been declared a matter of national security and stamped “secret.”

The former head of CSEC makes no apologies for what he calls an “architectural wonder” at public expense.

In a rare and wide-ranging interview exclusively with CBC, former CSEC chief John Adams spoke at length about the agency and its new headquarters, a project he oversaw from its inception until his retirement last year.

“Did it have to be an architectural wonder? No it didn’t,” Adams says.

“But, you know, glass in this [CBC] building is the same price as glass in that [CSEC] building.

“That building is just going to look an awful lot better than this building.…That facility is going to be quite magnificent.”

Atriums and high-tech glass — but no fireplace
The centrepiece of the complex has been aptly described as a massive glass skyscraper lying on its side.

CSEC officials say it will be filled with mainly common spaces such as soaring atriums, a cafeteria, library and meeting areas.

Contrary to Adams’s contention that glass is glass, a construction executive familiar with the CSEC project says the exterior panes that cover the building are all custom cut and part of a special mounting system, all of which is “far more expensive” than anything on a conventional office building.

Experts say the security features of the CSEC project are a major reason the price tag is so high.

The glass exterior, for instance, like virtually everything else in the new headquarters, comes with special security features to prevent other spies from spying on CSEC.

Every piece of material going into the construction of the building has to be inspected for possible spy bugs; every vehicle entering the site has to be searched.

All of the nearly 5,000 workers involved in the project have been cleared by security.

The former CSEC chief said the new facility would include a grand fireplace in one of the common areas.

Adams said one of the challenges at CSEC is how to get spies hunched over computer terminals “to relax and get together to just chat. So what I wanted was an area that would attract people."

“How do you get them to gather? You have things there that will draw people. Fire draws people. It's got a fireplace. People say that it is ostentatious. It is not ostentatious. A, It is part of the heat; and B, it is gas; and C, people will walk to the fire. And guess what? They are going to meet people that they would not otherwise see."

Three hours after this story was posted online, two senior officials from CSEC’s public relations department contacted CBC News to say there will be “no fireplaces in the facility.”

This is not the first time the plans for the new spy palace have been changed.

Plans for the facility to include a skating rink and hobby garden were dropped early in the development after their existence was reported in the media.

Those choosing to gather for gossip at the drinking fountain will be treated to filtered water.

'Did they really look at the expenses?'
Gregory Thomas heads the Canadian Taxpayers' Federation, a watchdog organization that tracks government waste.

He is not impressed: "Paying for a glass tower and glass atriums and luxury accommodations for government employees, I don't think most Canadians would agree with that."

Thomas points out it is the same Defence Department responsible for CSEC that bought the whole Nortel Networks campus, the biggest industrial complex in the country, for $208 million.

"It is standing vacant now. The question is: Did they really look at the expenses when they set out to buy a $1.2-billion building for 2,000 people?"

Most of the actual work spaces will be located in seven glass towers attached to the outside of the central structure.

But no one is going to be fighting for a corner office. There are none.

Adams says the spy biz is “collaborative work.” And to encourage that, there will be no offices — corner or otherwise — in the entire place: It will be all open concept.

“It is quite a building.”

Powerful data centre
The nerve centre of the agency is a separate concrete bunker the size of a football field, home to what is being touted as the most powerful super-computer in the country, along with its mammoth electrical power generators and cooling systems.

When fully operational, the data centre alone will apparently suck up enough electricity to light much of the nation’s capital.

Adams says a lack of electrical and computing power is the main reason the agency is having to move from its current location in south Ottawa, a cluster of buildings dating back to the 1960s, the main one previously occupied by the CBC.

He says the agency’s existing computers could only run at 60 per cent capacity without overloading the local power grid.

CSEC also needs about three times more computing power than it has, plus a full backup, Adams says. “There are more transactions at CSEC on a daily basis than all of our banks combined.”

The new facility will “maximize one of the most capable workforces in the country with some of the most fantastic equipment in the country.”

When Canada's eavesdropping spooks aren't at their desks, they will be able to enjoy the expansive grounds around the CSEC complex now being fully landscaped with lawns, gardens, trees, nature trails and a couple of duck ponds.

Finally, a large glass walkway will ultimately connect the new CSEC headquarters to its next-door neighbour, Canada’s better-known and more traditional spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, or CSIS.

By comparison with the current CSEC project, the CSIS headquarters complex houses more spooks at about a quarter of the price.

Thomas of the taxpayers' federation said other public servants will be outraged.

"Federal government employees are coming home telling their families they don't have a job anymore and at the same time we are constructing a billion-dollar house of glass for our spy agency."

No one currently employed by CSEC would agree to be interviewed on the record.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-canada-s-top-secret-billion-dollar-spy-palace-1.1930322

 

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The new CSEC headquarters in Ottawa, officially budgeted at $880 million but likely costing a billion dollars or more, is an 'architectural wonder,' the former CSEC chief says. (Plenary Group Canada)

 

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Another view of the CSEC headquarters' atrium is seen in this artist's rendering. (Plenary Group Canada)

 

[uglyducking]

建在蜗村哪嘎达啊？

 

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Another view of the CSEC headquarters' atrium is seen in this artist's rendering. (Plenary Group Canada)

 

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An artist's rendering depicts the multi-staircase architecture at the heart of the new building in east Ottawa. The official cost of the top-secret intelligence headquarters is more than $880 million, making it the most expensive government building in Canada. (Plenary Group Canada)

 

[苦逼热狗]

where is it?

 

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A photo shows one of the common concourse areas in the CSEC building during construction. (Plenary Group Canada)

 

[老华侨]

where is it?

“路边通讯社社长”也有不灵的时候？

 

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Meeting areas and open concourses will give intelligence workers the chance to meet up and chat at Communications Security Establishment's new headquarters. (Plenary Group Canada)