Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. My name is Susan Kulba, and I am the Senior Director and Executive Architect of the House of Commons. I'm here today with the team who's responsible for the Centre Block project. I'm under digital services and real property at the House of Commons, led by the CIO, St

Procedure and House Affairs committee  To date, there has been consultation with the Speaker. We're in the very early phases. The next phase will be obviously to brief you and then go to the board and establish a way for that consultation to happen.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We expect that in January we'll have a plan that we can come back with.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  To date we had expected that parliamentarians would be feeding us back some information and expectations from their constituents. PSPC has indicated that we can do a public consultation if we feel it would be worthwhile.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Currently, that is the plan.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. We're way too early in the project for that at this point.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, of course.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Over the next six months, aside from the parliamentary consultations, we will be meeting with all the service providers to Parliament, whether it be House of Commons internal service providers or the press gallery, as an example, gathering their very detailed requirements. We do

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, sir. We're very early in the project. We're still, as we say, gathering what the requirements are. At some point we'll have a good idea of what those requirements are and then we'll need to balance that with all the various priorities of heritage, life safety, and come up wi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Once the building closes in January there's a whole decommissioning phase. It's expected to take up to nine months to actually decommission the building, remove all of the House of Commons and Senate infrastructure and furniture and then prepare the building for some of that futu

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Part of the project will be seismic upgrading to the building. There is no seismic reinforcing in the current building. I wouldn't consider this the most unsafe building. We have weathered a fair amount of earthquakes to date, and the building has held fairly well, but it certa

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Typically we work with the whip's office for space allocation based on the policy that was approved at the board.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  For the space allocation...?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The Board of Internal Economy is our highest level of approval.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. When we come to the end of a key milestone, we go to the Board of Internal Economy with a higher-level overview. The staff work on a lot of the detail. We'll share that up to various levels of authority. Sometimes it's the Clerk or sometimes the Speaker, depending on how mu