TORONTO — Canada’s first building to earn Zero Carbon Building — Design certification was one of six projects honoured with 2018 Leadership and Green Building Excellence Awards at the recent Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) national conference that took place in Toronto.
The Cora Group’s evolv1 project at the University of Waterloo in Ontario earned the CaGBC’s Zero Carbon Building Award at the awards presentation held earlier this month.
The project is a commercial multi-tenant office building now under construction.
An April media statement explained that to earn the zero carbon designation, evolv1 had to demonstrate it has modelled a zero carbon balance for future operations; incorporated an efficient envelope and ventilation system to meet a defined threshold for thermal energy demand intensity; and designed onsite renewable energy systems capable of providing a minimum of five per cent of building energy consumption.
Firms involved in the development of evolv1 for the Cora Group have included Stantec and Melloul Blamey.
Other CaGBC award winners were:
- New Construction — Commercial: Kennedale EcoStation, City of Edmonton;
- New Construction — Institutional: Humber River Hospital, Toronto;
- Existing Building — Commercial: Royal Bank Plaza, Oxford Properties Group, Toronto;
- Inspiring Home Award: Karen’s Place, Ottawa Salus Corporation; and
- Tenant Improvement Award: Google Canada Engineering and Development Team Headquarters (Phase 1), Kitchener, Ont.
The Plenary Group was project sponsor, equity investor and project arranger on the Humber build, which was completed in 2015, and PCL Constructors was the builder. A project fact sheet noted sustainability elements included maximizing daylighting opportunities, orienting the building to minimize heat gain, using sustainable materials and high-performance building systems, and incorporating green roofs on 50 per cent of the roofs throughout the campus. The facility achieved LEED Gold certification.
The winners of the 2018 CaGBC Leadership Awards were:
- Volunteer Leadership, Technical Expertise — Jamie McKay, principal, Morrison Hershfield;
- Volunteer Leadership, Chapter — Morgan MacDonald, director of operations, Ledcor Renew;
- Green Building Champion — Jonathan Westeinde, CEO, Windmill Development Group;
- Lifetime Achievement — Brian Denney, former CEO, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority;
- Inspired Educator — Mark Gorgolewski, chair, Department of Architectural Science, Ryerson University;
- Emerging Green Leader — Sascha Jansz, PhD researcher, University of Groningen;
- Government Leadership — Lisa King, senior environmental policy planner, City of Toronto;
- Green Building Pioneer — Chris Jepson (posthumous), formerly of Williams Engineering Canada; and
- Students Leading Sustainability, Andy Kesteloo Memorial Project Award — Tessa Benson, British Columbia Institute of Technology for her project titled Outside the Box.
The CaGBC statement noted Denney dedicated his career to the success of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority where he led the organization in delivering diverse programs ranging from heritage conservation and climate change mitigation and adaptation to green building and sustainable community development. Denney is currently on the CaGBC board of directors and is also a GBCI Canada board member.
“I am very pleased to congratulate this year’s CaGBC Leadership and Green Building Excellence Award winners,” said Thomas Mueller, president and CEO of the CaGBC, in a statement. “This year we decided to raise the bar by adding additional recognition awards for exceptional projects and the results are clear: Canada is home to many of the world’s leading green buildings and innovators.”
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