Environment committee  We're rehabilitating these for a life cycle of approximately 80 years, and in some cases 100 years. As well as rehabilitating them, we're bringing them up to modern use, so security, sustainability, accessibility—

Environment committee  West Block is $863 million, including the addition. There's 50% new space added in that building. One thing I would say across the board is that most of these projects involve adding a lot more usable space: the Government Conference Centre, 30% additional usable space; West Bloc

Environment committee  We're not quite there yet for the Centre Block. The key strategy is to make sure we have really robust costing and scheduling so that we can report to Canadians and hold ourselves to account on that. The key thing there will be emptying the West Block and really starting to do..

Environment committee  It's a very large, complex building facing a lot of problems. For example, it's almost four times the size of the West Block, and you would know as well or better than I the type of sculptural ornamentation and so on. There are the challenges and complexities of doing a full ove

Environment committee  At this point, no.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  We're really focusing on trying to push as far as we can to a 100-year life cycle, because of the significant costs associated with this and the significant disruption to Parliament. The costs are related to swing space, moving people out, and we've done some key things to try to

Environment committee  I can respond to the parliamentary precinct aspect. There are challenges with heritage structures, of course, but I think we can move beyond trade-offs and zero-sum games and align by prioritizing heritage, sustainability, accessibility, and security. Much of that comes down to

Environment committee  Thank you very much for your question. We are working with the House of Commons. We are looking at the session of Parliament starting next fall, in 2018.

Environment committee  Exactly.

Environment committee  I don't think so.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. My name is Robert Wright. I am the assistant deputy minister responsible for the parliamentary precinct within Public Services and Procurement Canada. Canada's parliamentary precinct is home to one of the largest concentrations of heritage buildings in