Client: Manitoba Hydro
Architects: KPMB Architects (Design), Architecture49 (Executive), Prairie Architects Inc.(Advocate), Transsolar (Energy and Climate Engineer)
Consultants: Crosier Kilgour & Partners (structural), Halcrow Yolles (structural), AECOM (mechanical, electrical), Integrated Designs (commissioning), Groundsolar Energy Technologies (geothermal), Omicron Consulting Group (geothermal), Pivotal Lighting Design (lighting), Hilderman Thomas Frank Cram (landscape), Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg (landscape), Leber | Rubes (life safety), Brook Van Dalen & Associates Ltd. (building envelope), Soberman Engineering (elevator), Aercoustics Engineering Ltd. (acoustics), RWDI (microclimate), Hanscomb (quantity surveyor), Wardrop Engineering (municipal and site services), ND Lea Engineers & Planners (traffic, access and parking), UMA Engineering in partnership with Dyregrov Consultants (geotechnical, hydrogeologist), Dan Euser Water architecture (water feature)
General Contractor: PCL Constructors Canada Inc.
Completion: 2009
Sustainability
The project involved an Integrated Design Process (IDP), energy savings, supportive workplace, and urban revitalization approach.
The office towers offer passive free energy without compromising human comfort. There is a 24 meter tall waterfall feature in each atria that humidifies and dehumidifies the incoming air.
The building offers 100 % fresh air, 24 hours a day, year round, regardless of outside temperatures.
All individual workstations have in floor vent control and automatic and manually operated windows.
Site selection is along bus routes, extensive computer modeling using local wind, sun and temperature data, a 377`tall solar chimney is a key element in the passive ventilation system.
Green roofs and accessible terraces reduce storm water runoff and provide additional thermal insulation
And staircases encouraging people to walk more to improve ones health and wellness.
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