EBA’s work on many environmental aspects of the Vancouver Convention Centre’s West building (formerly called the Vancouver Convention Centre Expansion Project) has helped the facility to achieve a worldwide first – it is now the first convention centre facility anywhere in the world to be awarded a Platinum LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating.
LEED® is an internationally-accepted measurement tool to systematically point-rate and identify buildings that meet exceptional levels of environmentally sustainable design – and Platinum is the top of the scale.
The Vancouver Convention Centre’s West building, recently home to some 7,000 broadcasters as it served as the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Broadcast Centre (and also notably as the “base” for the outdoor Olympic / Paralympic cauldron!), boasts a wide range of sustainable design features, including:
- a six acre ‘living’ roof (the largest in Canada)
- a sophisticated drainage and water recovery system which has reduced potable water use by 72.6%
- diversion of 83% of construction waste from landfill
- unique marine habitats built into and around the foundation for the building
EBA was involved from the inception of the Vancouver Convention Centre’s West building project, carrying out the environmental assessment and permitting components, and working closely with the architectural, design and project management team to scope and plan the $883M facility’s sustainable design elements.
Click here to see the Vancouver Convention Centre’s recent press release.
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By: Richard Sims
This page was last updated on: 3/24/2010 12:32:00 PM
