The University of Ottawa Advanced Research Complex (ARC) houses two exciting leading research efforts: the uOttawa Centre for Advanced Photonics and a cluster of state-of-the-art Geo-Science laboratories. This five-storey, 14,860m2 building serves as a teaching and research facility in photonics and environmental analysis. In addition to offices, classrooms, clean rooms for laser testing, laboratories and specialized spaces devoted to research into inert gases and the analysis of glacial speci-mens, the building is home to Canada’s only accelerator mass spectrometer. The project has achieved LEED® Gold Certification.