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the first scholarly attempt to rank a wide range of approaches to minimizing climate change in terms of feasibility, cost-effectiveness, risk, public acceptance, governability and ethics. “Some climate-engineering strategies look very cheap on paper. But when you consider other criteria [they] look very bad,” says Jonn Axsen, assistant professor in SFU’s School of Resource and Environmental Management. He poi nts to the idea of sola r radiation management, which involves spraying massive amounts of aerosols into the stratosphere, kind of like what happens when a large volcano erupts. “This is a surprisingly cheap way to reduce global temperatures, and we have the technology to do it. But what are the environmental risks? Will global citizens accept this? What country would manage this? Suddenly, this strategy does not look so attractive.” After evaluating more than 100 possible climate-altering approaches, the team concluded there is no way around it. We, that is you and I, have to reduce the amount of carbon being released by switching away from fossil fuels, improving energy efficiency and changing our own behaviour. Yet this may prove the biggest challenge of all. When the study ranked potential public acceptance of the climate-changing ideas, the strategy that scored the highest in public support – a perfect five out of five – was “do nothing.”

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Green briefs

B.C. among world LEED leaders

anada’s first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) building was completed in Vancouver a decade ago. Now Canada stands as the largest international market for LEED green buildings and boasts more square metres of LEEDcertified space than any other nation outside the United States, according to a new report from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Canada’s commitment to LEED began when the National Works Yard in Vancouver earned LEED Gold certification in 2004. From that day forward, British Columbia enthusiastically embraced LEED. In

short order, the BC Cancer Agency Research Centre, the Vancouver Convention Centre, and the Vancouver Aquarium also achieved LEED certification. The real testament, however, was Vancouver becoming the first Olympic city to mandate that all new construction leading up to the 2010 Winter Games be certified either LEED Gold or LEED Silver, the councii notes. “Because of the leadership of the Canada Green Building Council, our northern neighbour has become a critical ally in our mission to see a sustainable built environment within a generation,” says Rick Fedrizzi, president and CEO of USGBC.

National Works Yard, Vancouver: first LEED building in Canada | CITY OF VANCOUVER

British Columbia now has 299 LEED buildings, third in Canada behind Ontario (667) and Quebec (306). “As the first country to adopt LEED outside of the United States, the Canadian building industry

Green Key hotels on right track

Great Bear Rainforest draws carbon offsets

ritish Columbia hotels that have embraced Green Key and similar energy - and wastereduction strategies are on the right track, a recent study of hotel building performance reveals. High-performing hotels used 20 times less water per room and four times less energy than the average, according to the study released by the Light House Sustainable Building Centre Society in Vancouver. The study obtained data from 19 hotels through Tourism Vancouver.

Re-roofing domed landmark saves energy

he City of Vancouver expects to save 64 per cent in natural gas consumption following the retrofit and re-roofing of the Bloedel Conservatory at Queen Elizabeth Park. Spectrum Skyworks of Port Coquitlam was awarded the contract to replace the clear acrylic roof on the 45-year-old city landmark. The $2.4 million retrofit project will complete at the end of this year. While the Triodetic domed roof is still strong, individual roof panels need replacing because they have cracked and now leak. This is a large and unique retrofit

The findings show local hotels generally scored well. The average site energy use intensity for the 19 hotels surveyed was 22 per cent lower than the benchmark for hotels in Canada. The worst performing Vancouver hotels were spending five times as much on energy annually as the highest performers, the study found.

as the dome structure has 1,488 individual “bubble” panels of 32 different sizes, each one custom made and individually installed, explains Ken Boyce, president of Spectrum Skyworks. The new roof will continue to use single-pane acrylic panels to fit the existing aluminum harness, but will achieve a two per cent reduction in natural gas consumption because of the improved thermal breaks, according to Danic a Djurkovic, director of facilities planning and development for the City of Vancouver. The former asbestos seals were replaced by rubber gaskets custom-made by Tremco Commercial Sealants & Waterproofing.

arbour Air, which claims to be the first carbon-neutral airline in North America, has expanded its carbon offset portfolio to protect more of British Columbia, including the Great Bear Rainforest. The Great Bear Forest Carbon Project generates emission reductions by protecting forest areas once threatened by logging. The forest itself, which covers roughly six million hectares, plays a pivotal role in the sequestration of carbon dioxide. It prevents approximately one million tonnes of

embraced the LEED system early on to create what is now a base of over 1,600 certified green building projects across the country,” says Thomas Mueller, president and CEO, Canada Green Building Council.

carbon dioxide emissions from entering the atmosphere annually. The project also returns stewardship to coastal First Nations and develops revenue opportunities for those communities. The project, managed by Vancouver’s Offsetters, is attracting the interest of companies keen to see their carbon offset benefits remain in the province.

Crews replace domed roof on Vancouver’s Bloedel Conservatory | RICHARD LAM

Inside, the conservatory has also had boilers replaced with high-efficiency units and the ventilation controls were updated, Djurkovic says. Challenges for Spectrum included replacing the roof panels while the conservatory remained open.

It was also the only project Boyce had worked on where a contract stipulation was that no birds could be allowed to escape or enter during the construction. “It is a once-in-a-lifetime job,” Boyce says.

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Green briefs

Richmond geoexchange captures national awards

n innovative and ex tensive energy system has earned the City of Richmond two national awards for engineering and public works – and it has another bold plan in the works. Canadian Consulting Engineer magazine and the Association of Consulting Engineering Companies of Canada bestowed the prestigious Canadian Consulting Engineering Award on the city’s Alexandra District Energy Utility (ADEU). The district energy utility was also named Project of the Year by the Public Works Association of BC.

The ADEU, a $4.3 million geoexchange heating and cooling system, serves more than 600 apartments. A second building, with 250 apartments, will be connected this year. The system uses ground-source heat pump technology to supply consistent and low-cost heating and cooling. Partners for the project include Oris Developments, Polygon Homes, IntraCorp, Cressey, Corix Utility Services and Stantec, says Peter Russell, Richmond’s senior manager of sustainability. Russell adds the city is also completing an analysis to connect two big-box retails stores, including Walmart, to the same system. Richmond recently established

Lulu Island Energy Co., a new municipal corporation to run its energy assets. The city is about to launch a third district energy node, near the Richmond Oval, that will eventually draw sewer heat from a Metro

Concord builds in antiflooding measures

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ancou ver-ba sed C oncord Pacific has launched a highend residential development on the banks of Calgary’s flood-prone Bow River. The Concord site was not affected by the 2013 Calgary flood that caused an estimated $1.7 billion in property damage, but its anti-flood measures reflect how developers are reacting to the potential of climate-change- related weather events. The infrastructure, designed by Associated Engineering, is said to include:

No green bullet, study concludes

inkering with climate change through climate engineering isn’t going to help us get around what we have to do, says a new report authored by researchers at six universities, including Simon Fraser University. After looking at a range of possible climate-altering approaches, the team concluded there’s no away around it: we have to reduce the amount of carbon being released into the atmosphere. “Some climate-engineering strategies look very cheap on paper. But when you consider other criteria,

•a building design engineered to withstand an episode twice as big as the 2013 flood; •a perimeter system that includes above-grade fortification walls with floodgates for pedestrian access; •waterproof foundation with self-sealing capabilities; and •stormwater backup prevention management.

some options look very bad,” says Jonn Axsen, an assistant professor in SFU’s School of Resource and Environmental Management and co-author of the study. The authors spent two years evaluating scores of suggestions – some of them rather radical – to minimize climate change. "Politicians don’t say directly, ‘Don’t worry, technology will come along and save us,’ but it’s implied by the continual delay of doing any real climate policy,” says Axsen. The outlook for that last-minute tehnological salvation is not good, Axsen and his colleagues discovered. What they found is that not one

redit Suisse Real Estate Asset Management is building what will be one of Canada’s tallest sustainable office towers. The $200 million Vancouver project will target LEED Platinum status, the Canada Green Building Council’s highest designation. Harry Gugger, the renowned architect behind Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium and the Tate Modern gallery in London, has designed the 31-storey Exchange building. Credit Suisse says the building will use half the energy of a traditional office building of a

Vancouver sewer main. “Our own Gateway Theatre is already connected to a sewer heat recovery system, the first in North America at this scale, for space heating,” Russell says.

comparable size. Green features of the project include: •stormwater retention and reuse; •hydronic heating and cooling; •geoexchange thermal regulators; •solar thermal panels; and •triple-glazed curtain wall envelope.

of the plans — or even all of them together — offers a viable chance of controlling human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. “There is no silver bullet. There’s no technology fix,” says Axsen. The report's conclusion echoes a common theme: reducing emissions through some combination of switching away from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy sources, improving energy efficiency and changing human behaviour are the most effective and perhaps only methods of confronting climate change. In other words, it is up to everyone. The study is published in the latest issue of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

DIsTRICT EnERgy InnovaTIon In RIChmonD The City of Richmond is guiding the development of a sustainable City Centre— a downtown rich with public amenities, thoughtfully integrated residential and commercial spaces, transportation options, affordable housing, green buildings and district energy. District energy is emerging as a major catalyst for reducing Richmond’s reliance on fossil fuels. In 2012, the City launched the Alexandra District Energy Utility using geothermal energy to heat and cool buildings and for domestic hot water heating. Today, the system provides services to over 850 condos and will expand in 2015/16 to serve over 1900 homes and 290,000 sq. ft of commercial space. In 2013, with a strong mandate from Council, the City established the Lulu Island Energy Company to expand district energy in City Centre. The system will launch in 2015, offering space heating and hot water for 3 million sq. ft of space; the system will eventually use heat recovered from a sewer forcemain.

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CLIMATE CHANGE 2002–2012

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By 2050 mean annual temperatures across B.C. will be 1.4 C to 3.7 C warmer, on average. Most of B.C. will likely receive more precipitation – up to 26% more in some locations

Trend in annual mean temperature increase (in ˚C per decade) for British Columbia, 1900–2004  0.05 to 0.08  0.08 to 0.10  0.10 to 0.12  0.12 to 0.15  0.15 to 0.20 SOURCE: PREPARING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE, WEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW WITH FUNDING FROM NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA, PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND FRASER BASIN COUNCIL

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Developer will sink deep shafts in Canada’s first geoexchange retrofit of an office tower

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ll the 2.1 million square feet of office space under construction in downtown Vancouver is designed with environmentfriendly features that reduce operating costs and respond to tenant use. Telus Garden and others incorporate geoexchange systems, while Oxford Properties’ MNP Tower has occupancy sensors that activate lighting when required. So how can older office space compete? That was the question facing Cadillac Fairview Corp., which manages assets for the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Fund. Cadillac Fairview is responsible for 12 office towers in downtown Vancouver, as well as the Pacific Centre retail complex that occupies three city blocks along Granville Street from Pender to Robson. It receives steam heat from Central Heat Distribution Ltd., the district heating utility that maintains the natural-gas-fired boilers that keep more than 180 buildings

Cadillac Fairview is investing $2 million in the retrofit, which will have a payback of eight to 10 years and reduce energy consumption by 60 per cent

in Vancouver’s downtown core warm. But Cadillac Fairview wants to move away from steam. The goal was to reduce energy expenses as well as its environmental impact, and it commissioned Vancouver-based Fenix Energy Ltd. to explore the potential of retrofitting Pacific Centre with a geoexchange system. “One of the reasons we’re pursuing this is to get some certainty around heating costs,” explains Ultan Kampff, general manager of Pacific Centre for Cadillac Fairview. A geoexchange system effectively uses the earth as an

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energy bank. It deposits energy recovered when cooling a building in the ground for later use when the building requires heat, reducing the need for newly generated heat. The system is highly efficient, returning 350 per cent for every kilowatt consumed by a conventional boiler, which is typically just 94 per cent efficient. Small surprise, then, that a retrofit emerged as a worthwhile venture for Cadillac Fairview. The first phase of what could be a three-phase retrofit of the Pacific Centre complex is 777 Dunsmuir, a building typical of downtown Vancouver’s office stock. Completed in 1990, the 19-storey tower includes 196,325 square feet of retail space and 264,088 square feet of office space. The combination of office and retail space in a relatively self-contained part of the complex provided the best opportunity for piloting the system’s effectiveness. “It works well in this building because there’s mixed occupancy,” says Adrian Ryan, senior vice-president, engineering for Fenix.

Adrian Ryan (left, above), co-founder and director at Fenix Energy, and Ultan Kampff, general manager at Cadillac Fairview, pose on the bottom level of the parkade under 777 Dunsmuir, where the geothermal retrofit will be taking place | DOMINIC SCHAEFER Test drills went live in June 2014 | CADILLAC FAIRVIEW

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400 feet to green

Fenix will begin drilling the 30 boreholes to a depth of 400 feet from the underground parkade of 777 Dunsmuir in June 2014. Special equipment will ensure minimum disruption from the project, the first retrofit of its kind in Canada. Ryan says that while it’s common for new buildings to incorporate geoexchange systems, the perceived obstacles to retrofitting a building have primarily been logistical. The costing is in fact more efficient in an existing building because heating requirements are known and systems can be tailored to actual demand. “The tendency is to build towards a peak load,” he says of new projects. “We build for consumption. ... The business case is much better.” Cadillac Fairview is investing $2 million in the retrofit, which will have a payback of eight to 10 years and reduce energy consumption by 60 per cent. Since heat will be available for use throughout Pacific Centre, reducing its reliance on natural-gas-powered boilers, carbon emissions will also drop 85 per cent. The project will seek LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. The geoexchange system also gives Cadillac Fairview greater control over utility requirements because it will own the asset. “Cadillac Fairview has opted for an energy security model,” Ryan explains. The payoff for tenants, however, is in greater certainty when it comes to operating costs. While a small amount of steam will be sourced from Central Heat to supplement the geoexchange in winter, Kampff believes tenants will be able to look forward to lower occupancy costs that will make the building competitive with the new generation of office space being developed. Utility costs of all types are on the rise, he notes, so more efficient lighting, glazing and other features – all specified in the upgrade of 725 Granville Street, the former Sears premises at the south end of Pacific Centre – make sense. “If we can protect our clients from increasing utility costs, then that’s a great proposition for us,” Kampff says.  Nineteen-storey, 24-year-old Dunsmuir office tower will be outfitted with state-of-the-art geoexhange system | CADILLAC FAIRVIEW

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Royal Avenue. “Because of the slope of the site, this condo project required a number of holes at different depths,” says Bill Fitzgerald, operations manager for Sonic Drilling Ltd. “At the top of the hill, we used a truck-mounted sonic rig and at the bottom we used a track-mounted sonic rig to come up the sides of the slope.” As the track-mounted SDC-450 sonic rig climbed up the hill, excavators created a flat platform for the rig to move to at every stage. While the weather and terrain wasn’t a challenge, the desire to keep all of the trees on the property forced the crews to work around them. “A few had to be dug up but they were replanted,” notes Fitzgerald. Over a period of 10 days, a total of 2,400 feet was drilled by two sonic rigs, each with a crew of three. Hired by Power Civil Contractors Ltd., a contracting and shoring company with extensive expertise on projects throughout the Lower Mainland, the sonic drills bored 80 six-inch holes which were used to then install 4.5“ steel pipe. Grouting was completed by Power Civil Contractors. Fitzgerald says that one of the biggest reasons to use a sonic rig for piling is its “speed advantage.” Drilling 3-5x faster through mixed soils, using no drilling mud (less mess to clean up) and operating more quietly, sonic drilling technology is a great option for project managers who want a solution that keeps the neighbours happy and makes good business sense.

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oliticians of all stripes, scientists and academics rarely agree on what day it is, much less on a policy position about an energy source that has the ability to meet the world’s energy needs in a sustainable way. So, it is intriguing that this consensus has emerged: that British Columbia should not even consider using nuclear energy to supplement future power needs. Even nuclear energy advocates, such as Greenpeace cofounder, ecologist and environmentalist Patrick Moore, say hydro is a superior source of clean energy. The problem with hydro power, according to Moore, is that to generate it, a region must be blessed with plenty of rainfall and mountains to create rivers that can be dammed. B.C., of course, has ample rainfall, mountains and rivers, but not all countries are like that. Nuclear power makes sense in places such as France, where 75 per cent of energy needs comes from nuclear energy, Moore says. In Belgium, 60 per cent of its energy comes from nuclear sources, he adds.

Moore’s main argument for nuclear power is that it is reliable and relatively cheap, with the average cost to generate a kilowatt hour being 2.9 cents once the reactor is up and running. Nuclear power, like hydro power, creates no greenhouse gases and few atmospheric pollutants. Despite this, B.C. has been staunchly against nuclear energy for more than a decade – first in its 2002 energy plan, then, in 2008, when it banned uranium mining. The B.C. government was so eager to halt uranium mining that, in 2009, it directed its chief inspector of mines to halt all work on existing claims – a directive that cost the government a $30 million court settlement

CHRIS LING | DIRECTOR, SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY, ROYAL ROADS I’m not opposed to nuclear power when it replaces coal-fired power because the reality is that coal creates way more pollution, even accounting for the waste at the end of the nuclear process

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Nuclear est la réponse

Retired Greenpeace cofounder and nuclear energy advocate Patrick Moore sides with opponents of nuclear energy when it comes to powering B.C.’s future energy needs

when Boss Power Corp. sued it for misfeasance in public office because the government refused to issue permits for Boss’ Blizzard site. When Green Space asked B.C. energy minister Bill Bennett why the province outlawed both nuclear power and uranium mining, he quipped, “that’s an explosive question.” Jokes such as Bennett’s, however are wrong-headed, according to Moore. “The greatest misconception is that people think a nuclear power plant can explode like a bomb,” he says. “The worst kind of accident that can happen in a nuclear plant is called a meltdown accident, where after the reactor is shut down, the heat of decay from the fission products – the nuclear waste in the reactor – can cause the fuel to melt. This takes hours and days to occur. It doesn’t happen in an instant.” Because of the meltdown is relatively slow , people have

time to evacuate the area, he explains. No deaths at Fukushima “No one died from radiation at Fukushima and, according to the experts, no one ever will because no one received enough radiation to cause harm to their health in the future,” Moore says. Joking aside, Bennett went on to explain that his reason for supporting a ban on nuclear power and uranium mining is because “it’s a matter of what we think the people of the province don’t want.” New Democrat opposition leader John Horgan agrees. “Developing a nuclear industry in B.C. is a very low priority – in fact, it’s not a priority at all,” Horgan told GreenSpace. “B.C.’s moratorium on uranium mining was universally accepted by everyone unless they have a uranium claim,

JOHN HORGAN | LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION, PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Developing a nuclear industry in B.C. is a very low priority – in fact, it’s not a priority at all

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and that’s a very small number of people.” Academics similarly agree that nuclear power is a worse option than hydro power, though they say it is far preferable to what powers most of the world’s energy: coal. “I’m not opposed to nuclear power when it replaces coal-fired power because the reality is that coal creates way more pollution, even accounting for the waste at the end of the nuclear process,” says Chris Ling, who is director of the School of Environment and Sustainability at Victoria’s Royal Roads University. “Site C is a better solution than nuclear.” This near-universal aversion to nuclear energy is part of the reason why the debate swirling around whether BC Hydro should spend $8

billion to build the Site C dam does not centre on the kind of power being produced. The federal-provincial Joint Review Panel wrote in its May report that hydro power is the cheapest and most sustainable option to fuel B.C.’s future power needs. The debate instead focuses on whether B.C. is spending too much money for a dam that will create far more energy than B.C. can use. After all, building the dam requires flooding agricultural land and drowning traditional First Nation hunting territory. “B.C. could sell the excess energy,” Ling says. “There’s a strong argument to do that because you would be using hydro energy to replace coal-fired power stations in Canada and the U.S. There’s a sustainable benefit.” 

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CHILDREN “Greenest child-care centre on the planet” reflects an intense, long-range commitment to sustainable development atop Burnaby Mountain

BY JANET STEFFENHAGEN

Living building: UniverCity Childcare Centre was constructed using only non-toxic materials from local sources and aims for net-zero energy, waste and water | MARTIN TESSLER

n unusual child-care centre atop Burnaby Mountain is in the running for certification as Canada’s first living building, an international award recognizing sustainability. The UniverCity Childcare Centre, which opened to preschool children two years ago, was constructed using only non-toxic materials from local sources and is in the process of proving that it meets strict livingbuilding standards that include net-zero energy, waste and water.

DALE MIKKELSEN | DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, UNIVERCITY Families are realizing that it’s a safe and welcoming place to live. So rather than moving out to the suburbs, they’re choosing to stay in this dense community

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Teach the children

UniverCity houses about 3,500 people around Simon Fraser University | MARTIN TESSLER

Dale Mikkelsen , director of development | UNIVERCITY

Forty per cent of UniverCity households have schoolage children, a high ratio in Metro Vancouver: great child-care is seen as a key reason | MARTIN TESSLER

It’s been called the greenest child-care centre on the planet, and it epitomizes the sustainable, high-density community known as UniverCity, which is growing alongside Simon Fraser University (SFU) and giving new life to what was previously known as just a commuter campus. Community development integral with the campus was first envisioned 50 years ago when SFU was being designed, but real steps weren’t taken until 1995 when the university reached an agreement with the City of Burnaby to allow construction on 65 hectares. As part of that deal, SFU donated 320 hectares to the Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area, where it would remain natural and, except for some hiking and biking trails, undeveloped. By then, attitudes toward development had changed radically and the idea of sustainability was gaining traction. John Stubbs, then SFU president, insisted UniverCity would be a model of good development, creating much-needed community cohesiveness for SFU while also generating revenue for education. It should neither damage the environment nor deplete natural resources, he stated. The SFU Community Trust, established in 1997, embraced four pillars of sustainability: environment, social equity, economy and education. Construction commenced in 2003, and today there are about 3,500 people living in 1,595 units in 13 buildings, with more development underway. The project, which has won numerous awards for sustainability, has contributed $30 million to SFU for teaching and research and produced $15 million in infrastructure. UniverCity came to life in 2010 with the grand opening of the University Highlands Elementary School for K-7 students, the first retrofit school in Canada to receive a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold designation based on features such as a hybrid boiler, radiant heating and hot-air recovery system. Building a community “That was a real landmark moment because we went from building homes to building a community,” says Dale Mikkelsen, director of development. Opening around the same time was a full-service grocery store, followed by a pharmacy, bank, travel agency, hair salon, dentist office and, in 2012, the UniverCity Childcare Centre with an educational philosophy from Italy known as Reggio Emilia. “Along High Street and Tower Road, the community was starting to have a heart – a central place of gathering – and that was a big moment in having a place that people actually called home,” he adds. Families took note. While occupants of a typical highdensity community in Greater Vancouver are about 11 per cent parents with school-age children, UniverCity is moving beyond 40 per cent, Mikkelsen notes. “Families are realizing that it’s a safe and welcoming place to live. So rather than moving out to the suburbs, they’re choosing to stay in this dense community,” he says. “But they do need some more space.”

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The cost of the units, $450 per square foot, is comparable to other high-density neighbourhoods in Burnaby and half the price of similar housing at the University of British Columbia Point Grey campus. Sixty units in a two-storey townhouse have been sold to SFU staff at 20 per cent below market value. Almost half of UniverCity residents have a connection to SFU, either as employees or students.

Construction is expected to continue for another eight to 10 years, when the population could reach 10,000. One of the next projects will see the addition of a number of larger units with three and four bedrooms for those growing families. Mikkelsen highlights another unique UniverCity facet, the continued growth of its District Energy System – Canada’s largest neighbourhood utility – that will provide heat and hot water to hundreds of units from one highly efficient energy source. Initially, that source will be a natural-gas boiler, but eventually the fuel will be wood waste from construction that would otherwise end up in the dump. The utility is expected to reduce UniverCity’s greenhouse gases by 70 per cent, or 11,000 tonnes, per year. Another goal – though still in the dream stage – is to have a gondola reaching the top of Burnaby Mountain from a SkyTrain station below. A feasability study by the regional transportation authority concluded the idea had considerable merit, but also found that building and operating a gondola would cost $12 million more than continuing to serve the campus by bus over the next 25 years. 

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PREPARING

FOR WEIRD WEATHER Coquitlam a pilot test as insurance industry girds for impact of climate change

BY DARAH HANSEN

Tracy Kyle, Coquitlam’s manager of environmental services, notes that residents can do their part to mitigate climate change | DOMINIC SCHAEFER

t’s difficult to talk about rain on such a brilliant spring day, but, as Dana Soong knows all too well, not talking about bad weather doesn’t make it go away. Rain actually takes up a fair bit of Soong’s thoughts. As an engineer and manager of utility programs for the City of Coquitlam, Soong is tasked with ensuring that the city’s sewer and storm-water system is up to surviving even the heaviest of seasonal downpours so that homeowners don’t find themselves knee-deep in unwanted water in their basements. It’s no easy job in this age of global climate change. Water damage caused by system backups has now surpassed home fires as the most costly insurance claim in the country, according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada. Insurable losses toppled over the $3 billion mark in 2013 for the first-time in Canadian history. Over half that total, $1.7 billion, was related to water damage resulting from record flooding in Calgary and across southern Alberta last June. In all, 28,000 claims, averaging $61,000 each, were filed. Just weeks later, in July, Toronto’s infrastructure was swamped by 126 millimetres of rain that fell in a single day,

resulting in 29,000 claims totalling about $850 million. Water backups can be caused by any number of circumstances – from overgrown trees roots and defective pipes to homeowners pouring grease down the line and plugging it up (true story, says Soong). But it’s the rain that really sets the trouble off. Extreme rainfalls can easily overwhelm infrastructure, sending the waste and water back up into homes and onto roadways. If anything, it’s a problem that is only getting worse over time as weather patterns change and become unstable. “What climate change is doing is giving us more extreme

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Preparing for weird weather

Five simple steps to ease climate change To mitigate the effects of climate change, there are several things that B.C. residents can do. •Thirty-seven per cent of British Columbia’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHC) emissions come from on-road transportation. Reducing driving time (by riding your bike or using public transit) is one of the most relevant ways to help climate change. •Residents could consider downsizing to smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles. Forty-two per cent of transportation emissions derive from SUVs and light truck vehicle use. •Half of all GHG emissions derive from building energy usage. Using energy-efficient equipment, as well as adjusting our expectations for indoor temperatures, can reduce household and building GHGs. •Reducing waste can help to reduce GHGs. All residents should be encouraged to reuse, recycle and divert waste from landfills.

Tracy Kyle, City of Coquitlam’s manager of environmental services

storms, more extreme rainfall events,” Soong says. Tracy Kyle, Coquitlam’s manager of environmental services, notes that residents can do their part to mitigate climate change. “Fifty per cent of Coquitlam,’s GHG [greenhouse gas emissions] come from transportation,” she notes. “With the Evergreen Line opening in 2016 in Coquitlam, we hope that residents start to use transit for their daily commute to work.” Climate change, and, notably, the impact of extreme weather on insurance rates, is such a concern, it takes up two spots on a list of four strategic priorities highlighted by the national insurance bureau. Insurable losses related to water and wind damage in 2013 were more than 40 times the amount recorded in 1983, according to bureau data. And that’s not counting all the other crazy weather events across the country in recent years, from a Category 5 tornado (the worst ever in Canada) outside of Winnipeg to the ice storm that downed trees and cut power to hundreds of thousands of residents across southern Ontario

this past Christmas. Not to mention the hurricanes, hail, landslides, wild fires and the increasing threat of overland flooding from rising sea levels. (Experts predict sea levels will rise about one metre overthe next 100 years.) “What we are seeing is, every year, billions of dollars in catastrophic losses,” says Robert Tremblay, the insurance bureau’s director of research. “An extreme weather event that would occur every 50 years is now happening once every five to seven years, depending on where you are in the country,” he says. The country’s rapid rate of urbanization has only served to magnify the problem. When disaster strikes a dense urban centre, costs can quickly soar, and the existing infrastructure in many cities is old and ill equipped to deal with environmental extremes. By comparison, British Columbia has largely escaped major losses associated with severe-weather events. The rainy reputation of the West Coast, in particular, has spared many of its residents from water damage on

ROBERT TREMBLAY | DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH, INSURANCE BUREAU OF CANADA An extreme weather event that would occur every 50 years is now happening once every five to seven years, depending on where you are in the country

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the levels we’ve seen elsewhere because urban drainage systems were built from the outset to withstand a higher level of rain intensity. But, cautions Tremblay, no one is immune from the effects of climate change. “If it rained more in the past, it is going to rain more in the future,” Tremblay says. Policy-makers across the Metro Vancouver region have been working in recent years to lower the risk of overland flooding by beefing up regulations for waterfront developments. Policy changes in Coquitlam, for instance, now require the Waterfront Village Centre, a large development planned by Beedie Development on the former Fraser Mills site, to be built up about one metre higher than the five-metre municipal standards. The development will also be set back sufficiently from the river to allow a dike to be built in the event of an historic flood. Overland flooding is not covered by insurance in Canada – a reality thousands of Albertans found out after losing property, in some cases whole houses, to overflowing creeks and rivers in last spring’s flood. Indeed, the magnitude of the Alberta disaster was so great it had insurers considering some dire steps, from eliminating all flood coverage across the country to hiking premiums to the point where insurance would no longer be affordable. “It has not been a pretty time, as the numbers suggest, for the property line in our business,” insurance bureau CEO Don Forgeron told business and government leaders

at a meeting last year in Toronto. Assessing municipal risk The insurance bureau has, instead, pinned its hopes on an innovative new software program specifically designed to help cities better plan for and guard against flooding caused by severe weather. The Municipal Risk Assessment Tool (MRAT), which is still being fine-tuned, is currently being tested in three pilot cities, including Coquitlam, Hamilton, Ontario and Fredericton, New Brunswick. The initiative, developed by the insurance bureau with the aid of federal funding, uses different climate models, past rainfall events and municipal data to predict areas of the city that are particularly vulnerable to flooding caused by storm-related backups. The data can be used by cities to make necessary improvements before problems occur. Tremblay called the MRAT the “most advanced analytical tool of its kind that currently exists.” Soong is the MRAT technical expert in Coquitlam, where sewer backsups are common, resulting in dozens of complaints every year from unhappy citizens in this fast-growing city of 126,000. And while it may be blue skies today, Soong knows there will be plenty more rainy days ahead. When that day comes, he wants the city to be as prepared as possible. “This tool will help us,” he says. 

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BY BAILA LAZARUS

f Metro Vancouver intends to reach its solid-waste reduction targets in six years, it’s going to have to face some stiff challenges around one of the key elements of its strategy – incineration. The burning question sparked a Burn Free BC press conference outside a Metro Vancouver Zero Waste Committee meeting in April.

BURNING ISSUES Debate flares as Metro Vancouver plans to burn waste into energy

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Burn Free BC member Jenna Ralston sees no future for incinerators in the Lower Mainland

Malcolm Brodie, chair of Metro Vancouver’s Zero Waste Committee: 300,000 tonnes of waste to get rid of | CITY OF RICHMOND

Russ Anderson, business manager for Covanta, the company that manages the Metro Vancouver waste-toenergy facility in Burnaby, peers into a burner where waste is incinerated | RIC ERNST, VANCOUVER SUN

“I don’t think you’ll ever have the emission controls that you need and especially in the Fraser Valley,” says Jenna Ralston of Burn Free BC, a campaign to oppose Metro Vancouver waste incineration. “We have one of the most unique airsheds in the entire world and [emissions] just sit here and it funnels up the valley and it doesn’t go anywhere.” University of British Columbia department of chemical and biological engineering professor Tony Bi offers a different view. After touring state-of-the-art incinerators in

Europe, he believes emissions can be controlled. “From a technological point of view, you can do a perfectly good job if you have the money to put in. The debate boils down to what kind of technology you are going to use and what type of control device you are putting in,” Bi says. “Do we have the technology to control all these emissions? I say yes. The question is how expensive they are.” There will always be trace amounts of organic compounds in the emissions, Bi says, but occupational health

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Burning issues

Paul Henderson, general manager, solid-waste services, Metro Vancouver, argues that none of the local monitoring stations have ever shown any impact on air quality as a result of emissions from the Burnaby waste energy facility | DOMINIC SCHAEFER

Every 100,000 tonnes of garbage incinerated produces enough energy to power about 5,500 homes for a year, based on Metro Vancouver stats

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studies have demonstrated they should be of minimal concern. Still, he suggests building incinerators away from congested cities, if possible. But some in the valley are not sold. Sharon Gaetz, chair of Fraser Valley Regional District and mayor of Chilliwack, claims Metro Vancouver has a “dirty little secret.” “They landfill 57,000 tonnes of toxic ash that come from the bottom and top of these incinerators,” Gaetz stated in a radio debate with Greg Moore, chair of Metro Vancouver. “They’re not clean energy; they’re burning garbage. The stuff that comes out of the top and bottom is absolutely dangerous for health.” Full steam ahead Despite the criticism, Metro Vancouver plans to burn a lot more garbage when officials find where to do it. The proposal follows the most recent integrated solid-waste 1.2and million resource management plans approved by the BC Ministry of Environment in 2011. 1.2 million Out of approximately one million tonnes of waste produced in Metro Vancouver per year, about 700,000 goes to landfill disposal – 10.8 million trees primarily in Delta and Cache Creek. Among Metro Vancouver’s goals is to increase the waste diversion rate from 58 per cent in 2012 to 80 10.8 million 1.5 million per cent by 2020. That would bring those million tonnes of garbage trees automotive tires down to about 700,000. According to Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie, chair of Metro Van1.5 million five automotive tires couver’s Zero Waste Committee, the Burnaby incinerator is expected to process 270,000 tonnes and the Vancouver landfill is expected to be down to 100,000 tonnes. “So that leaves just over 300,000 tonnes five% 10 that need to be disposed of by some new facility,” says Brodie. The regional district has disclosed four potential sites they were conCNG sidering as potential waste-to-energy facilities – at South Vancouver, 10 % Duke Point near Nanaimo, Delta and Port Mellon on Howe Sound – but CNG no decision has been made. Paul Henderson, general manager of solid-waste services for Metro Vancouver, calls the waste-reduction targets “very aggressive.” “In the future, the plan is to have up to 95 per cent of that remaining 700,000 tonnes managed through waste energy and only a tiny bit going to landfill and some residual.” Every 100,000 tonnes of garbage incinerated produces enough energy to power about 5,500 homes for a year. When asked about the concerns dissenters have regarding toxicity in the air or ash, Henderson is resolute in his support for the incinerator. “I always point to what’s happening in other places in the world, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands have moved away from landfilling as how they manage that residual garbage to using waste-to-energy. There’s in the order of 500 plants in Europe. And those countries are countries we think of as having the most rigorous environmental standards in the world.”  We divert more than

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GREEN BUSINESS: STRENGTH IN NUMBERS Jens Ourom | Closed-loop waste recycling just one example of how small operators can work together on sustainability

hen Louise Schwarz and Robert Weatherbe started Vancouver’s Recycling Alternative, they may well have been anchoring their entrepreneurial energies to an ideological desert island. Schwarz speaks of Recycling Alternative’s early days, when many of its first clients were not-for-profits and folk festivals, while mainstream waste-haulers had a very limited concept of recycling. “It wasn’t a common thing,” states Schwartz, referring to corporate recycling programs. “Within about a year or two, public awareness started to come around.” That was 1989. Fast-forward 25 years, and Recycling Alternative is at the centre of a supply chain of sustainable businesses in Vancouver that leaves few sheets of paper untouched, barely a drop of fuel untapped, nor a kilometre uncoverable via one form of sustainable transportation or another. This is closer to the business landscape that another local entrepreneur, Ryan Spong, began venturing into in 2011 with the Tacofino commissary and food trucks and Foodee corporate meal concierge. Today, in some cases, Spong can actually choose from sustainability-minded suppliers, whether he’s looking to find partnerships with couriers, printers, or waste-haulers – in addition to

where Tacofino sources ingredients. Spong thinks he’s seen this change even further in the last four years or so, and that presently “the greener suppliers are right under the surface – if you choose to scratch it – but it’s still up to you as a proprietor to take that step.” Recycling Alternative has emerged as a key partner for Spong, and not just to help Tacofino maximize recycling and the diversion of organic waste from the landfill. “Recycling Alternative seeks to make a sustainability-minded industry even more so,” Spong explains. Recycling Alternative runs its fleet of recycling haulers on a blend of biodiesel. It also founded the Vancouver Biodiesel Co-op – which allows commercial kitchens to have their waste vegetable oil collected and recycled into biodiesel. The carbon emissions associated with recycled biodiesel are 97.5 per cent less than with ordinary diesel. This represents an incredible opportunity for Tacofino. Recycling Alternative collects the used vegetable oil from Tacofino’s commissary and food trucks and then can dispense the credit earned from their contributions in order to fuel Tacofino’s most popular food truck – downtown Vancouver stalwart White Lightning – with a biodiesel blend. But Tacofino’s involvement in the

local green economy does not end with Recycling Alternative. In addition to local food businesses that walk the sustainability talk – such as Trimpac and Two Rivers meat distributors (meat free of antibiotics, hormones, and chemical feed additives) and urban farmers Sole Food Street Farms – Tacofino works hand in hand with another of Spong’s business ventures, the Foodee “meals on wheels” delivery service. The wheels, in Foodee’s case, come via the most sustainable method that is logistically feasible – Vancouver’s groundbreaking cargo-tricycle delivery service, Shift Delivery Co-op. It’s building these types of partnerships that resonates with Schwarz as the most sustainable business plan. “It’s the kind of thing that buffers you and keeps you in a position where you can provide value that some of these larger multinationals can’t,” Schwartz says.  Jens Ourom liaises directly with the 700 plus local companies that have worked with Vancouver’s Climate Smart to reduce their carbon footprints. As part of the client relations and business development team at Climate Smart, he is particularly interested in what is driving more sustainable business practices and what will continue to drive them in the future. Reach Ourom at 604-254-6283, or visit www.climatesmartbusiness.com

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Special report | Energy-efficient homes

NET-ZERO HOUSE

North Vancouver LEED home generates more energy than it uses

BY SUSAN M BOYCE

Midori Uchi – Japanese for “green home” – incorporates a rammed-earth wall and triple-glazed, lowemissivity windows and doors that helped it earn a LEED Platinum designation for homes | EMA PETER PHOTOGRAPHY

esigned by Naikoon Contracting Ltd., Midori Uchi – Japanese for “green home” – is one of the only Metro Vancouver houses to incorporate a rammed-earth wall and one of only a handful in the Lower Mainland to be completely net-zero — meaning its produces more energy annually than it consumes. The North Vancouver home has also achieved LEED Canada for Homes Platinum rating, Built Green Platinum, and R-2000 certification.

This is a house that definitively proves living green does not mean compromise, just plenty of “outside the box” innovation. Approaching from the street, concrete-slab stepping stones appear to float on a “creek” of smooth river rocks — an inviting xeriscape landscape that requires no supplemental irrigation. An open, slatted fence gives a nod to the subtle elegance of Asian minimalism, a look that reoccurs often throughout the home’s interior. Peek in the backyard to discover a lush-looking, artificial turf lawn, plus herb and veggie gardens that are watered primarily from runoff collected in a rain barrel beside the garage. The 30-foot lot is one half of a conventional, 60foot property reconfigured to meet the City of North

Vancouver’s higher-density, urban-infill goals. Both homes feature a fully self-contained ground-floor flat in addition to the two-storey main house — four dwellings now occupy the space of the original single-family detached house. Inside, Midori Uchi is a showcase of high tech, high design and local artistry. The kitchen includes an induction cooktop and built-in herb cultivator. Triple-glazed, argon-filled windows from Cascadia Windows and a state-of-the-art exterior insulation finishing system contribute to this home’s R-33 rating — 60 percent higher than the R-20 required by B.C.’s building code. Lighting is 100 per cent LED and programmable from an iPad or smartphone. The home incorporates grey-water

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Every piece of wood in the house was reclaimed , some from an old factory. The home is powered by an air-to- water heat pump and a solar photovoltaic system. The walls are made from rammed earth | EMA PETER PHOTOGRAPHY

recycling, heating/cooling through an air-to-water heat pump and a complete photovoltaic power system. Its mechanical room, the room Joe Geluch, Naikoon president, admits is his “favourite” as a techie, looks like a vision from science fiction. But it’s the use of natural, locally sourced materials that creates some of the most dramatic visual impacts. Differing levels of iron oxide give the 22-foot-high, rammedearth wall a rolling striation of grey-brown tones. “Every piece of wood in the house was reclaimed,” Geluch says, adding that some 6,500 board feet came from a decrepit warehouse being torn down in the Lower Lonsdale industrial area. “Lumber like this would normally be mulched because it was full of staples and nails.” Hours of painstaking re-milling after removing staples and nails by hand were required, but he says the results were worth every minute.

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New home construction can take advantage of technological and product improvements for higher energy savings, but what can the existing owner of an older home do? BC Hydro has drawn up a list of tips to help conserve home energy and reduce impact on the environment. 1: Get an energy audit and follow up. Energy auditors are trained to give your house a current and potential energy-efficiency rating. Auditors are not out to sell you specific products.

Half-century old glued-laminated timber beams are repurposed as interior floating stair treads — one extending past the frameless glass railing to become an art niche. Others are laid on edge, clamped together with horizontal dowelling, and then pinned to the exposed steel structural beams that form the upper-level flooring. For an eye-catching alternative to a dining room chandelier, Geluch flush-mounted an open lattice on the ceiling and added perimeter lights and two pendants. “Midori Uchi was a challenge on so many levels, but I couldn’t be happier with the results,” Geluch says. 

2: Plug the drafts. Sealing gaps and cracks is one of the most cost-effective steps you can take to keep the heat inside your home, reducing heat loss by up to 10 per cent. 3: Turn it off. Turning off lights – and electronics – that aren’t being used is a simple and effective way to save energy. The energy savings can be significant. Tonight, count all the red lights still glowing at bed time.

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4: Switch to energy-saving lighting. Lowpower lighting options are available on store shelves throughout the province. 5: Install dimmers and sensors. Lighting controls are a simple and efficient means of reducing lighting energy costs. 6: Buy EnergyStar appliances. EnergyStar appliances and computers are rated for energy efficiency, reduced levels of hazardous materials and greater product life. 7: Freeze out old fridges. Refrigerators and freezers are two of the most energy-consuming appliances. If your appliance is old or not working well, replace it. 8: Cold-water wash. Using cold water is the single most important way to reduce the energy needed to wash your laundry. 9: Use a clothesline. Hang your clothes to dry whenever possible. An outdoor clothesline works best, but even an indoor rack is a green alternative to an electric dryer.

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Special report | Energy-efficient homes

PASSIVE HOUSE

World’s toughest environmental standard tries to gain traction in B.C.

BY FRANK O’BRIEN

Sunlight brightens and heats this Passive House in Saanich. High-performance glazing and frames make windows the primary heating source | BERNHARDT CONTRACTING

assive House, the German-born program promoting the world’s most energy-efficient construction, has seen its greatest Canadian success in British Columbia, but proponents admit it is hard to gain market traction. Windows are the defining characteristic of Passive Houses, of which 20 are either built, under construction or proposed in British Columbia. In a presentation this year at Buildex Vancouver, Canadian Passive House Institute founding director Guido Wimmers explained the houses rely on the ability of high-performance glazing and frames to turn windows into “solar heat collectors.”

A 3,600-square-foot Passive House built in Whistler in 2010 posts an electric heating bill of just $10 a month

A thickly insulated Passive House could be heated all winter with just the windows and the appliances, he said. A 3,600-square-foot Passive House built in Whistler in 2010 posts an electric heating bill of just $10 a month, Wimmers says.

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Windows in Passive Houses must meet a minimum ultraviolet rating of UV 0.8, which is more stringent than the new Vancouver Building Bylaw requirement of UV 1.4 and well below the Canadian average of UV 2.1. Passive House windows also usually have a solar heat gain coefficient higher than 0.50 for south-facing windows and 0.40 for north-facing windows, which are twice as high as the federal Energy Star standard. Windows with such a high rating – meaning it allows more solar heat into a building – are desirable in cold climates, like Canada and northern Europe. The challenge is that the domestic Passive House market is so tiny – only 42 Passive Houses have been built in Canada – that each window would be an expensive, custom creation. Victoria contractor Robert Bernhardt, who has completed a Passive House in Saanich and is building Canada’s first multi-family project under the program, says there is only one Canadian company – Delta-based EuroLine

Windows – with a production-line window that meets the international Passive House standard. Most Passive House builders in B.C. have imported high-performance windows from Germany. Wimmers concedes that the environmental optics of shipping a window thousands of miles to save energy are not ideal. Passive House builders face a number of hurdles as they seek to gain traction in B.C. The extra-thick walls needed for the heavy insulation eat into the sensitive cost-per-square calculations used in new homes. The need for southern orientations can restrict location and the initial costs for construction are higher than for conventional construction. The fact that Passive Houses will eventually pay back the original costs many times over in lower energy use may not be enough to convince buyers in Canada’s most expensive real estate market. As Wimmers notes, “It is one thing to recommend something. It is another thing to get people to use it.” 

Guido Wimmers, founding director of the Canadian Passive House Institute: “It is one thing to recommend something. It is another thing to get people to use it.” | FRANK O’BRIEN

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Special report | Energy efficient homes

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Award-winning homes save energy but also address affordability

This innovative North Vancouver four plex captured three housing-industry awards, including “excellence in energy efficiency” for Alchemy Construction. Energy-saving design was combined with highdensity zoning | ALCHEMY CONSTRUCTION

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Special report | Energy-efficient homes

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wo innovative – and wildy different – local housing projects that took environmental awards this year combine aspects of green coloured by a search for affordable housing. Alchemy Construction captured a Georgie Award from the Canadian Home Builders’ Association of BC and two Ovation Awards from the Greater Vancouver Home Builders Association.

Alchemy Construction stylishly squeezed four duplexes onto two city lots | ALCHEMY CONSTRUCTION

Alchemy’s four plex project in North Vancouver took the honours for energy efficiency, but its high-density approach also created affordable flexibility in the highpriced North Vancouver market. Through rezoning, Alchemy managed to squeeze four front-to-back duplexes onto what had been two singlefamily building lots. Each of the three-level units can be configured as either two bedrooms upstairs plus two bedrooms in the basement or one bedroom and a family room, with the potential of having a “mortgage helper” rental suite. Opening skylights provide natural ventilation and lighting, while extended roof overhangs on the south side of

the house – along with the low solar heat gain coefficient glazing – keep the rooms comfortable in summer. Other green aspects include eco-friendly, low-water landscaping and a tankless combination-boiler system with hot water on demand from a single boiler. The homes are rated at an impressive EnerGuide 80, according to architect and home energy expert Richard Kadulski, who consulted on the project. This compares to EnerGuide ratings of 67 to 72 for a typical new house. Self-contained Vancouver’s Atira Women’s Resource Society took a more radical route to its Georgie Award for best environmental initiative: recycling a dozen shipping containers into nonmarket homes near the Downtown Eastside. The project, completed last summer, was built on a city-owned lot on Alexander Street in partnership with BC Hydro and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. All of the units are tightly insulated and had energy-saving glazing installed. The old containers – all purchased through Port Metro Vancouver – measure less than 300 square feet, but each has a bathroom, a washer-dryer combo and full kitchens. Giant windows, some of which boast views of the ocean and mountains, replaced one wall of each container. The units cost $82,500 each to build – or about $300 per square foot – but Atira CEO Janice Abbott says this was partially due to the site restrictions and the premium fixtures that were used in an effort to promote the concept of turning shipping containers into homes. Atira now plans to build a second shipping container housing project in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood and is working to bring the per-unit price down. Abbott says the society hopes to gain city approval to build a seven-storey project that would require 30 recycled containers, which sell for around $2,500 each.

JANICE ABBOTT | CEO, ATIRA WOMEN'S RESOURCE SOCIETY We hope to bring the price down by about $10,000 per unit [for the next 30 shipping containers being recycled into Vancouver homes]

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“We hope to bring the price down by about $10,000 per unit,” Abbott says. The society is aiming to win City of Vancouver rezoning for the 60 by 60 industrial lot by the summer of 2014. 

Vancouver’s Atira Women’s Resource Society recycled 12 shipping containers into lowcost rental housing on the Downtown Eastside | ALTIRA WOMEN’S RESOURCE SOCIETY

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Sustainable architecture

TAKING THE LEED Veronica Owens | Ninety-three per cent of building managers support green building certification – and bottomline benefits are part of the reason

eadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) has moved into the mainstream of British Columbia commercial development. Two reports released in 2013 illustrate why green buildings are top of mind and provide competitive advantages. 1. The 2013 global Energy Efficiency Indicator survey, conducted by Johnson Controls Institute for Building Efficiency, polled 3,000 facility management executives and found that 93 per cent had a public goal to achieve green building certification with at least one of their facilities and 73 per cent intended to achieve nearly zero or net-zero for at least one new facility. 2. In June 2013, Oxford Properties Group released its Future of Work Study. Of the 2,000 respondents surveyed, 34 per cent said that environmental focus is very important to them and 50 per cent believed working in a sustainable office will continue to be important within the next five years. The top three desirable office features were: air quality (81 per cent), comfortable temperature control (81 per cent) and natural light (74 per cent). “If we don’t think our customers are looking for this, that they are looking for green, that they are looking for sustainability, that they understand

the long-term business model, I encourage you to think again,” says Andrew McAllan, Oxford Properties Group managing director of real estate management. Both studies touch on top green building triggers driving the growth of green buildings: •Belief that there is strong market demand from commercial tenants and residential customers (35 per cent) •Belief that energy efficiency provides a competitive advantage (30 per cent). Other triggers driving green building development outlined in McGraw Hill Construction’s 2013 Smart Market Report include: •Rent and sale premiums, higher occupancy rates and minimized risk was cited by 33 per cent of commercial property owners. •Differentiation from competitors through branding and public relations was cited by 30 per cent. •“Market transformation” was cited by 18 per cent of respondents. Rental lift Tenants are willing to pay a premium to rent in LEED buildings, according to a recent study conducted by CoStar’s Property and Portfolio Research subsidiary. The study showed renters are willing to pay a 35 per cent rent premium for properties in downtown

Vancouver’s newest $200 million office tower is targeting LEED platinum certification. Franz Gehriger, CEO of its developer, SwissReal Group, says of this decision: “We are long-term investors and we believe that everybody has to go this way”

city cores, a 50 per cent premium for properties close to mass transit and a 25 per cent premium for LEEDcertified buildings. For many owners and developers, sustainability is integrated into their mandate, differentiating their brand from their competitors. Tridel/Tridel Group of Companies, Oxford Properties Group, Cadillac Fairview and First Capital Realty are all developers with a high percentage of LEED and BOMA BESt certified properties. Vancouver’s newest $200 million office tower to break ground is targeting LEED Platinum certification. Franz Gehriger, CEO of its developer, SwissReal Group, says of this decision: “We are long-term investors and we believe that everybody has to go this way.” Civic legislation Large municipalities across North America, notably Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, New York, Seattle, San Francisco and Chicago, have instituted green building policies that require LEED certification or equivalent. In Vancouver, LEED Gold certification is required as a condition of development and occupancy permits of commercial buildings.  Veronica Owens is project manager for Light House Sustainable Building Centre Society, Vancouver. Email: veronica@lhsbc.com

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two-year scientific study of a Chilliwack industrial roof has proven that black or grey roofs deliver the maximum energy savings for large building projects in British Columbia. But green roof proponents say roofs planted with vegetation offer that and much more. The roof study laid three different coloured roof membranes – white, grey and black – in 900-square-foot sections on a 50,000-square-foot industrial building and then monitored the subsequent heat loss and gain over a two-year period. The study was designed to show whether so-called “cool roofs," which are always white, deliver higher energy performance than grey or black roofs in B.C.’s climate. Cool roofs, which are popular in the United States, qualify for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental

Design) credits and are cited as reducing air conditioning costs on large commercial structures. Walmart, for example, often installs cool white roofs on its large-format stores. The Chilliwack study concluded, however, that white roofs are not effective at reducing energy costs on the often-cloudy West Coast. The unique study was conducted by SMT Research and RDH Building Engineering of Vancouver and overseen by the National Research Council of Canada.

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The roof of the Soprema manufacturing plant in Chilliwack was turned into a giant laboratory to test the energy performance of three different colours of roof assemblies: grey, black and white | SOPREMA

Sensors were installed to measure temperature, relative humidity, moisture content and heat flux at various points within each of the roof assemblies. Displacement sensors were installed to measure the dimensional stability of the insulation. In addition, webcam photos were used to study the impact of night sky cooling, wetting and frost, and other differences between the assemblies. Each of the test membranes was insulated with two separate materials: rock wool or a sheet of rigid foam polyisocyanurate (polyiso). To complement the field investigation, the effective R-values of the insulation was measured in a laboratory. Based on energy consumption over the test period, the best performance was the roof using a dark membrane and rock wool insulation. Second was the grey membrane with either insulation. The worst energy performance was the white roof with polyiso insulation. The black roof also performed better than the grey or white roofs, regardless of which insulation was used. Marcus Dell, RDH senior building science specialist, says the results were as most suspected. “No major surprises,” Dell says. “Our energy modelling confirms that the use of a white roof in Metro Vancouver’s climatic zone does not result in energy savings, even if the building is air-conditioned.”

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Green roofs If the same test were done using green roofs as an option, the findings would have shown roofs planted with vegetation deliver energy savings year-round while improving aesthetics, according to Ron Schwenger, principal with Architek Sustainable Building Products of Vancouver. Architek has installed a number of green roofs on large commercial buildings across the province. Aside from energy savings, Schwenger adds that green roofs offer what standard grey, black or white roofs can’t: water retention, natural beauty and an environment friendly to birds and bees. Green roofs also deliver sound bottom-line benefits, he notes, that make them a good investment. Vegetation protects the roof membranes from freeze-thaw expansions and contractions that can reduce a roof’s lifespan, he explains. “Engineered green roof systems can triple and even quadruple the lifespan of a roof, meaning that they do not need to be replaced as often – a significant capital-cost saving over decades,” Schwenger says. Green roofs also hold water and release it gradually, which Schwenger says will become more important as the climate changes. As well, he adds, large green roofs generate carbon offset credits that builder-owners can sell on carbon trading exchanges. Finally, green roofs create a place where bees can pollinate, birds can feed and other living things can find refuge in an urban setting, he notes. And even this has cash value, he adds. “Corporate tenants will often pay a rental premium to locate their operations to a green building. The perception is that green buildings make happier and more productive employees with lower employee turnover rates.” 

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Mechanical insulation often represents a tiny fraction of project budgets but can be the most effective and fastest way to save energy in everything from big buildings to battleships

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t the ongoing retrofit of the HMCS Chicoutimi at the Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt naval yards in Victoria, an invisibleto-the-naked-eye component could prove the most important protection onboard the Navy’s largest hunter-killer submarine.

Mechanial insulation is used to wrap and seal ventilation and water pipes, motors and other mechanical systems in large commercial, government and residential buildings | BRIAN HOFLER

Without the mechanical insulation that wraps the kilometres of onboard pipes and wiring – plus firewalls, heater and freezers – the submarine could simply not operate, says contractor Gary Aasen, manager of West Coast Industrial Insulation of Victoria and a member of the Burnaby-based British Columbia Insulation Contractors Association (BCICA). The insulation not only protects naval crews from heat and cold, but is vital to the operation of sensitive electronics, Aasen says. Mechanical insulation is just as important to the

efficient and environmental operation of modern buildings. In Metro Vancouver, buildings rank second as producers of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), notes Chris Ishkanian, technical director of the BCICA, and account for 29 per cent of total GHGs, just two per cent less than vehicle emissions. “There is no logical reason to not properly insulate a building’s mechanical system,” Ishkanian says. “The investment pays for itself very quickly, the materials are readily available and there is a trained workforce.” Mechanical insulation is largely unknown – or at best taken for granted – by the general public, but as Cher Hanusiak, director of the Green Chamber of Commerce of BC notes, “it is the one per cent solution,” because it amounts to only one per cent of the construction costs of a new building.” Proper mechanical insulation can reduce the energy consumption and GHG emissions of a building by 90 per cent when compared with an uninsulated system,” Ishkanian adds. A study by HB Lanarc Consultants showed that appropriate mechanical insulation used in a new 25-storey, electrically heated apartment building would reduce the annual energy use by 320,000 kilowatt hours. As well, mechanical insulation would reduce greenhouse gas emissions in such a building by a staggering 58.8 tonnes annually, the study found. Mechanical insulation is also effective in energy retrofits. It is estimated that applying mechanical insulation for an older four-storey residential building would pay back the cost in energy savings in just four years. Little wonder then that mecha n ica l i nsu lation

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– affordable, effective and often mandated by insurance companies and B.C. municipalities – has proven so popular and the industry so competitive. However, Brian Hofler, executive director of the BCICA, cautions there is a dark side to this explosive demand: unqualified contractors using untrained workers and inadequate materials. “Mechanical insulation is too important not to be done right,” Hofler says, in noting the steps the BCICA has taken to raise and maintain industry standards over the past half-century. Twenty years ago, the BCICA published the Quality Standards for Mechanical Insulation Manual (commercial and institutional buildings), which remains the industry standard for the specification of mechanical insulation systems in B.C. today. Members of the BCICA who work in commercial and industrial arenas are also involved in the Quality Assurance Certificate (QAC) program. The certificate ensures that professionals are installing the mechanical insulation to specification, Hofler says. In order to obtain a QAC, the work must meet the following rigorous standards: • M e c h a n ic a l i n s u l at ion mu s t b e i n s t a l le d b y

tradespeople who hold a provincial trade qualification or Red Seal designation in the heat and frost trade. Tradesmen must work directly for BCICA members. • Materials accepted for use in the QAC program must be manufactured by BCICA associate members and must comply with the latest American Society for Testing and Materials or Underwriters Laboratories of Canada standard applicable to the product. • During installation of the work, a purpose-trained independent inspector who has completed the mechanical insulation inspection program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, and who has been designated by BCICA to inspect the work, must carry out inspections and present a final report to BCICA. • A Quality Assurance Certificate will be issued by BCICA once a final inspection report is filed and only after any deficiencies or outstanding issues have been rectified. The training and the testing seem onerous, and they are, Hofler says. But the importance of mechanical insulation to the environment, energy savings and even the safety of citizens and our armed forces demands that professionals do the work with quality materials, he contends. “This is not only saving energy for the future; it could be about the future of our planet,” Hofler says. 

Mechanical installation of HVAC systems and motors can be the most effective and efficient method of reducing energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions | ROXUL CANADA / BC INSULATION CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION

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Southeast False Creek Olympic Village Various Vancouver, V5Y 0B1 Vancouver Convention Centre Expansion 1055 Canada Pl Vancouver, V6C 2W2 RCMP E Division Headquarters 14200 Green Timbers Way Surrey, V3T 6P3 Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre 32900 Marshall Rd Abbotsford, V6V 3A4 UBC Life Sciences Centre 2350 Health Sciences Mall Vancouver, V6T 1Z3 Richmond Olympic Oval 6080 River Rd Richmond, V6Y 2C1 Royal Jubilee Hospital Patient Care Centre 1952 Bay St Victoria, V8R 1J8

City of Vancouver www.vancouver.ca

Residential

2010

BC Pavilion Corp www.bcpavco.com

Convention centre

2009

Merrick Architecture, GBL Architects, Walter Francl, Arthur Erickson, Nick 1,347,555 Milkovich, IBI, Acton Ostry, Cobalt Engineering, ITC Construction, MetroCan Construction, Haebler Construction2 PCL Constructors Westcoast Inc, Unitech Construction Management, DA 1,165,192 Architects + Planners, MCM Partnership, LMN Architects

Jim Pattison Outpatient Care & Surgery Centre 9750 140 St Surrey, V3T 4K1 Fort St John Hospital and Peace Villa 8407 112th Ave Fort St John, V1J 0J5

Platinum LEED Canada NC 1.0 February 2, 2010 Platinum LEED Canada NC 1.0 February 8, 2010 Gold LEED NC MR 1.0 March 3, 2014 Gold LEED Canada NC 1.0 September 10, 2009 Gold LEED-NC v2 December 19, 2005 Silver LEED Canada NC 1.0 January 29, 2010 Gold LEED Canada for NC MR June 28, 2012 Gold LEED NC September 19, 2012 Gold LEED NC MR August 9, 2013

Acciona Infrastructure, Stuart Olson, CannonDesign

343,444

Silver LEED Canada NC MR April 8, 2011 Gold LEED CS August 31, 2010 Silver LEED Canada NC MR January 4, 2011

314,177

PCI Group, Ledcor Group

292,000

Intracorp Harbour View LP, Ramsay Worden Architects, InSight Design Group

289,301

Gold LEED Canada NC July 22, 2005 Gold LEED Canada NC-MR 1.0 September 14, 2012 Gold LEED Canada NC July 26, 2012 Gold LEED NC 2.1 September 22, 2008 Gold LEED NC v2 February 4, 2002 Gold LEED CS January 3, 2012 Gold LEED Canada NC MR 1.0 December 20, 2012 Silver LEED BC March 25, 2010

Henriquez Partners Architects, IBI Group, Ledcor Construction, Keen Engineering (now Stantec Consulting), Glotman Simpson Consulting Engineers, R.A. Duff and Associates Inc Stantec Architecture

233,329

208,787

Bunting Coady Architects (now B+H Architects), PWL Partnership Landscape Architects Inc, Ledcor Construction, Bush Bohlman & Partners, Earth Tech Idealink Architecture, Bunting Coady Architects (now B+H Architects), Campbell Construction

200,004

CEI Architecture Planning Interiors

186,345

Busby, Perkins + Will Architects, Scott Construction

177,443

Rafii Architects, ITC Group

172,997

Citypoint 10777 University Dr Surrey, V3T 0E6 Crossroads 525 Broadway W Vancouver, V5Z 4K5 Vista Place 148-178 13th St W North Vancouver, V7M 1N6

Public Works and Government Services Canada Public safety (police www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca station)

2013

Access Health Abbotsford

Hospital

2009

University of British Columbia www.ubc.ca

Lecture halls, classrooms and research facilities Sporting and convention facility

2004

Vancouver Island Health Authority www.viha.ca

Hospital/clinic

2011

Fraser Health Authority www.fraserhealth.ca

Hospital/clinic

2011

Northern Health Authority www.northernhealth.ca/AboutUs/ CapitalProjects/ QueenCharlotteHospitalProject.aspx Century Group www.CenturyGroup.ca

Hospital/residential care facility

2012

Two-tower, 452-unit residential building

2010

The PCI Group www.pci-group.com

Mixed-use commercial 2010 (retail, office space) and residential Two-tower multi-unit 2009 residential highrise market condominium project Laboratory 2005

City of Richmond www.richmond.ca

Intracorp Canada www.intracorp.ca

2009

BC Cancer Research Centre 675 10th Ave W Vancouver, V5Z 1L3 Vernon Jubilee Hospital Polson Tower 2101 32nd St Vernon, V1T 5L2

BC Cancer Agency www.bccrc.ca Interior Health Authority www.interiorhealth.ca

Hospital

Jawl Properties Ltd www.jawlproperties.com

Mixed-use commercial: 2010 office and retail

Kwantlen Polytechnic University www.kpu.ca

Mixed-use

2007

Vancouver Island Technology Park www.vitp.ca

Office building

2002

HOOPP Realty Inc www.hoopp.com

Office building

2010

University of British Columbia www.ubc.ca

Lecture halls and classrooms

2010

The Atrium 800 Yates St Victoria, V8W 1L8 Kwantlen University College Trades & Tech Centre 5500 180 St Surrey, V3S 6R1 Vancouver Island Technology Park 4464 Markham St Victoria, V8Z 7X8 Willingdon Park Phases 8 and 9 4350 Still Creek Dr Burnaby, V5C 6C6 UBC Renew – Buchanan Complex 1866 Main Mall Vancouver, V6T 1Z1

Pomaria 1455 Howe St Vancouver, V6Z 1R9

Qualex-Landmark Projects Inc

Residential highrise

2009

13 14 15 16 17 18

Sources: Canada Green Building Council and BIV research. NP Not provided 1 - Lists new construction buildings with silver, gold and platinum ratings and excludes buildings where internal renovations are LEED rated 2 - Companies involved in the original Olympic Village

2011

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Total square footage

Bird Construction, Bouygues Building BC Inc

819,800

PCL Constructors Westcoast Inc, MCM Architects, Silver Thomas Hanley

645,834

Bunting Coady Architects (now B+H Architects), Diamond Schmitt 561,520 Architects Inc, Ledcor Construction, Read Jones Christoffersen Ltd, MCW Consultants Ltd Dominion Construction, Cannon Design, Glotman Simpson, Fast + Epp 504,891 Cannon Design, Lark Group, Acciona, Angus Consulting Management Western Ltd

393,485

Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning Ltd, Bouygues Batiment 346,372 International, Bird Construction

227,775

190,995

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alternative-energy companies in B.C. BiggestBiggest alternative energy companies in B.C. RANKED BY | Number of employees in 2014 RANKED BY | Number of B.C. employees in 2014

Rank '14

1 2 3 4 5 5 5 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 19

Company

Top local executive(s)

Schneider Electric 3700 Gilmore Way, Burnaby V5G 4M1 P: 604-422-8595 F: 604-420-1591 www.schneider-electric.com Westport Innovations Inc 1750 75th Ave W Suite 101, Vancouver V6P 6G2 P: 604-718-2000 F: 604-718-2001 www.westport.com Ballard Power Systems Inc 9000 Glenlyon Pkwy, Burnaby V5J 5J8 P: 604-454-0900 F: 604-412-4700 www.ballard.com Endurance Wind Power 19052 26th Ave Suite 107, Surrey V3S 3V7 P: 888-440-4451 F: 604-542-9463 www.endurancewindpower.com Alterra Power Corp 888 Dunsmuir St Suite 600, Vancouver V6C 3K4 P: 604-699-4999 F: 604-682-3727 www.alterrapower.ca Analytic Systems Ware (1993) Ltd 8128 River Way, Delta V4G IK5 P: 604-946-9981 F: 604-946-9983 www.analyticsystems.com Corvus Energy Ltd 13155 Delf Pl Suite 220, Richmond V6V 2J2 P: 604-227-0280 F: 604-227-0281 www.corvus-energy.com Delta-Q Technologies Corp 3755 Willingdon Ave, Burnaby V5G 3H3 P: 604-327-8244 F: 604-327-8246 www.delta-q.com General Fusion Inc 3680 Bonneville Pl Suite 108, Burnaby V3N 4T5 P: 604-439-3003 F: NP www.generalfusion.com Pulse Energy 576 Seymour St Suite 600, Vancouver V6B 3K1 P: 778-331-0500 F: 778-331-0501 www.pulseenergy.com Innergex Renewable Energy Inc 666 Burrard St Suite 200, Vancouver V6C 2X8 P: 604-633-9990 F: 604-633-9991 www.innergex.com ZincNyx Energy Solutions Inc 8765 Ash St, Vancouver V6P 6T3 P: 604-558-1406 F: NP www.zincnyx.com Synex International Inc 1444 Alberni St Suite 400, Vancouver V6G 2Z4 P: 604-688-8271 F: 604-688-1286 www.synex.com Sea Breeze Power Corp 333 Seymour St Suite 1400, Vancouver V6B 5A6 P: 604-689-2991 F: 604-689-2990 www.seabreezepower.com Quantum Wind Power Manufacturing Corp5 1999 Highway 97 South Suite 232, West Kelowna V1Z 1B2 P: 888-700-1251 F: 888-700-1251 www.quantumwind.com Clean Current Power Systems Inc 750 Pender St W Suite 405, Vancouver V6C 1T7 P: 604-602-1222 F: 604-602-1221 www.cleancurrent.com Swiss Solar Tech Ltd 5811 Giants Head Rd, Summerland V0H 1Z7 P: 250-404-0490 F: 250-494-8183 www.swisssolartech.com ACT Aurora Control Technologies Corp 980 1st St W Suite 210, North Vancouver V7P 3N4 P: 778-241-5000 F: NP www.auroracontrol.com Cleanergy Resource Corp 9810 Tuttle Ave, Richmond V6X 3N4 P: 778-891-8967 F: NP www.cleanergyresource.com Dependable Turbines Ltd 17930 Roan Pl, Surrey V3S 5K1 P: 604-576-3175 F: 604-576-3183 www.dtlhydro.com

Ownership

Revenue '13/'12

Worldwide staff B.C. staff '14/'13 '14/'13

Laurent Bataille, senior vice-president, solar Schneider Electric Solar and backup power; RV, marine and 1836 business SA (Paris) commercial vehicle products; power monitoring and measurement equipment David Demers, CEO, William Larkin, CFO TSX:WPT; Alternative engine technologies, commercial 1995 Nasdaq:WPRT products available

150,000 150,000

730 730

NP/ $155 mil.1

NP 1,043

468 3182

John Sheridan, president and CEO, Paul Cass, VP of operations, Chris Guzy, CTO

TSX:BLD; Nasdaq:BLDP

Design, development and manufacture of zero- 1979 emission proton exchange membrane fuel cells

$63 mil.1/ $44 mil.1

310 302

274 272

Glenn Johnson, CEO

Privately held

Manufacturer of advanced wind power turbines 2007

NP 80

803 80

Ross Beaty, executive chair, Donald McInnes, vice-chair, John Carson, CEO

TSX:AXY

Renewable power producer active in North America, Latin America and Europe

2008

$68 mil.1/ $61 mil.1

150 140

65 50

Jim Hargrove, owner and president, Bill Walker, vice-president, sales and marketing

Privately held

Design and manufacture a complete range of high-performance power conversion products

1976

$11 mil./ $9 mil.

65 78

Brent Perry, CEO

High-power industrial lithium-ion batteries

2009

$32 mil./ $800,000

80 70

65 56

Ken Fielding, president and CEO

Privately held

Power conversion and power management products for electric vehicle manufacturers

1999

NP 71

643 64

New, patent-pending concept based on a recent 2002 development in fusion research called magnetized target fusion Energy intelligence software 2006

NP NP

634 68

56 39

52 43

Michel Laberge, president, Susan Koch, CFO, Privately held Nathan Gilliland, CEO

Areas of research

Year founded

David Helliwell, CEO and co-founder, Bill Davila, VP, sales, Kevin Tate, VP, product development, Steve Jones, VP, product management Richard Blanchet, senior vice-president, western region

TSX:INE

Wind, run-of-river hydro and solar energy projects

1990

NP/ $181 mil.

NP 115

45 40

Suresh Singh, president and CEO

Renewable zinc-air fuel cell

2012

NP/ $0

25 20

Greg Sunell, president

TSX:SXI

Energy development and operations

1984

$5 mil./ $5 mil.

23 23

Paul Manson, president and CEO

TSX-V:SBX.V

Renewable generation and transmission developer

1990

$53,300/ $9 mil.

20 20

Rick West, president, John David Bennett, investor relations

Wind energy, design, engineering and manufacturing

2001

NP NP

12 8

Glen Darou, CEO

Renewable energy from water flows including tidal stream, ocean current and river

2001

NP NP

103 10

Roger Huber, CEO

Privately held

Solar thermal collector efficiency, solar and geothermal hybrid system

2001

NP/ $585,258

8 8

Gordon Deans, president and CEO

TSX-V:ACU

2009

NP 6

6 6

Rely Diego, managing director

2011

10 NP

5 NP

Robert Prior, president

Privately held

Develops, manufactures and markets in-line measurement systems for the photovoltaic industry Establishing feedstock plantations to manage and process the raw material required to produce biodiesel Hydroelectric turbines

1978

NP NP

5 5

Sources: Interviews with above companies and BIV research. Other companies may have ranked but did not provide ranking information by deadline. NP Not provided NR Not ranked NA Not applicable 1 - Converted from USD 2 - 2012 figure 3 - 2013 figure 4 - BIV estimate 5 - A division of West Energy Group

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PRODUCTS

ADHESIVES, CAULKS & SEALANTS

Eagle Specialized Coatings And Protected Environments 18523 Fraser Hwy, Surrey V3S 8E7 Doug Pearce �� p604-576-2212 einfo@eaglecoatings.net wwww.eaglecoatings.com GreenWorks Building Supply Inc 79 3rd Ave W, Vancouver V5Y 3T8 Peter McGee �� p604-685-3611 einfo@greenworksbuildingsupply.com wwww.greenworksbuildingsupply.com

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DOORS

Innotech Windows & Doors Inc 31290 Wheel Ave, Abbotsford V2T 6H1 Mika Laspa �� p604-854-1111 einfo@innotech-windows.com wwww.innotech-windows.com Joel Berman Glass Studios Ltd 1081 Cliveden Ave Suite 110, Delta V3M 5V1 Emmanuelle Roux �� p604-636-3717 einfo@jbermanglass.com wwww.jbermanglass.com Vinyltek Windows 587 Ebury Pl, Delta V3M 6M8 Austin Woodward ��p604-540-0029 eaustin@vinyltek.com wwww.vinyltek.com

ELECTRICAL & LIGHTING

Brite-Lite Lighting and Electrical Distributors 1119 Cliveden Ave, Delta V3M 6G9 Craig Barrie ��p604-525-5549 ecraig@brite-lite.com wwww.brite-lite.com

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Commercial Lighting Products Ltd 1535 Cliveden Ave, Delta V3M 6P7 Don Paul ��p604-540-4999 wwww.comlight.com EcoCentury Technologies Inc 2424 Maple St Suite 111, Vancouver V6J 4Y1 Kerry Gibson ��p778-996-2669 ekgibson@ecocentury.ca wwww.ecocentury.ca Elec-Tech Sales Ltd 11080 Bridgeport Rd Suite 120, Richmond V6X 1T2 Anne Mathews �� p604-278-3044 eamathews@electechsales.com wwww.electechsales.com KM Roberts & Associates Ltd 18812 96 Ave Suite 20, Surrey V4N 3R1 Brian H Le Cappelain �� p604-882-8488 eblecappelain@kmroberts.com wwww.kmroberts.com Mac’s II Agencies 1851 Brigantine Dr Suite 100, Coquitlam V3K 7B4 Mark Crowe �� p604-540-6646 einfo@macsii.com wwww.macsii.com

EXTERIOR FINISH & TRIM

I-XL Masonry Supplies Ltd 7836 Venture St, Burnaby V5A 1V3 �� p604-299-0270 wwww.ixlmasonry.com Stonetile (Vancouver) Ltd 1515 Broadway St Suite 500, Port Coquitlam V3C 6M2 Ted Braniski �� p604-942-4100 evancouver@stonetile.com wwww.stonetile.com Woodtone 8807 Aitken Rd, Chilliwack V2R 4H5 Mike Pidlisecky �� p800-663-9844 wwww.woodtone.com

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Lehigh Hanson Materials Ltd PO Box 950, Delta V4K 3S6 Brad Pope �� p604-946-0411 ebpope@lehighcement.com wwww.lehighcement.com

FLOORING & FLOOR COVERINGS

Bamboo Direct (a division of Abodium Lifestyle Products) 747 17th St Suite 101, West Vancouver V7V 3T4 Charlie Davidson �� p604-913-9175 einfo@bamboodirect.ca wwww.bamboodirect.ca Bay Resource Group 11280 Twigg Pl Suite 158, Richmond V6V 0A6 Ed Van Oene ��p604-324-8819 eed@bayresourcegroup.ca wwww.bayresourcegroup.ca D Litchfield Inc 3040 Westwood St, Port Coquitlam V3C 3L7 �� p604-464-7525 edemo@dlitchfield.com wwww.dlitchfield.com Division9 (a Shnier Company) 725 Eaton Way Suite 140, Delta V3M 6S5 Alan Hurley �� p604-636-3565 wwww.division9.ca GreenWorks Building Supply Inc 79 3rd Ave W, Vancouver V5Y 3T8 Peter McGee �� p604-685-3611 einfo@greenworksbuildingsupply.com wwww.greenworksbuildingsupply.com

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Envirobarrier Industries dba Stripcurtains. com 3850 Jacombs Rd Unit 105, Richmond V6V 1Y6 Jeff Secord �� p604-247-1782 esales@strip-curtains.com wwww.strip-curtains.com Heritage Office Furnishings 1588 Rand Ave, Vancouver V6P 3G2 �� p604-688-2381 einfo@heritageoffice.com wwww.heritageoffice.com p+a furniture inc 1330 Napier St, Vancouver V5L 2M4 ��p604-255-2089 einfo@pafurniture.ca wwww.pafurniture.ca Wishbone Site Furnishings 27090 Gloucester Way Unit 109, Langley V4W 3Y5 John Jansen �� p604-626-0476 ejohn@wishboneltd.com wwww.wishboneltd.com

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AFA Forest Products Inc 19822 101 Ave, Langley V1M 3G6 �� p604-513-4850 einfo@afaforest.com wwww.afaforest.com GreenWorks Building Supply Inc 79 3rd Ave W, Vancouver V5Y 3T8 Peter McGee �� p604-685-3611 einfo@greenworksbuildingsupply.com wwww.greenworksbuildingsupply.com

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Quad-Lock Building Systems Ltd 7398 132 St, Surrey V3W 4M7 �� p604-590-3111 einfo@quadlock.com wwww.quadlock.com

INTERIOR FINISH & TRIM

Quad-Lock Building Systems Ltd 7398 132 St, Surrey V3W 4M7 �� p604-590-3111 einfo@quadlock.com wwww.quadlock.com Xypex Chemical Corp 13731 Mayfield Pl, Richmond V6V 2G9 Les Faure �� p604-273-5265 eenquiry@xypex.com wwww.xypex.com

Barrisol BC 241 1st St E, North Vancouver V7L 1B4 Sita Carboni �� p604-981-9663 einfo@barrisolbc.ca wwww.barrisolbc.ca BW Creative Railing Systems 23282 River Rd, Maple Ridge V2W 1B6 Scott Rolufs �� p604-467-5147 esales@bwcreativerailings.com wwww.bwcreativerailings.com Cascadia Design Products 1614 5th Ave W Suite 100, Vancouver V6J 1N8 Mark Bromley �� p604-739-0966 einfo@cascadiadesign.ca wwww.cascadiadesign.ca CertainTeed Gypsum Canada Inc 1070 Derwent Way, New Westminster V3M 5R1 �� p604-525-3461 wwww.certainteed.com

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Green over Grey – Living Walls & Design Inc 555 Burrard St Suite 900, Vancouver V7X 1M8 Mike Weinmaster �� p604-837-0333 einfo@greenovergrey.com wwww.greenovergrey.com GreenWorks Building Supply Inc 79 3rd Ave W, Vancouver V5Y 3T8 Peter McGee �� p604-685-3611 einfo@greenworksbuildingsupply.com wwww.greenworksbuildingsupply.com I-XL Masonry Supplies Ltd 7836 Venture St, Burnaby V5A 1V3 �� p604-299-0270 wwww.ixlmasonry.com Interstyle Ceramic & Glass Ltd 3625 Brighton Ave, Burnaby V5A 3H5 Johnny Matak �� p604-421-7229 ejohnny@interstyle.ca wwww.interstyle.ca MagO Building Products 7846 128th St, Surrey V3W 4E8 Peter Francis �� p604-290-1961 epeter@chateauhomes.ca wwww.magobp.com McKillican Canadian Inc 20233 100A Ave, Langley V1M 3X6 Dean Favaro �� p604-513-8122 edfavaro@mckillican.com wwww.mckillican.com Metro Wallcoverings Inc 1830 5th Ave W, Vancouver V6J 1P3 Kristy Woods �� p604-736-9756 ekwoods@metrowallcoverings.com wwww.metrowallcoverings.com

MECHANICAL SYSTEMS/ HVAC

Akhurst Machinery Ltd 1669 Foster’s Way, Delta V3M 6S7 �� p604-540-1430 evan@akhurst.com wwww.akhurst.com Fraser Valley Equipment Ltd 13399 72 Ave, Surrey V3W 2N5 Terry WB Robbins �� p604-590-1433 esales@fraservalleyequipment.com wwww.fraservalleyequipment.com Custom Cooling Solutions Ltd 20445 62 Ave Suite 204, Langley V3A 5E6 Richard Gibson �� p604-539-9533 esales@customcooling.ca wwww.customcooling.ca Energex Inc 138 8th Ave W, Vancouver V5Y 1N2 Rami Belson �� p604-448-1899 erami@energexinc.com wwww.energexinc.com First American Scientific Corp 30758 South Fraser Way Suite 201, Abbotsford V2T 6L4 Adam Powell �� p604-850-8959 wwww.fasc.net IBC Technologies Inc 1445 Charles St, Vancouver V5L 2S7 �� p604-877-0277 einfo@ibcboiler.com wwww.ibcboiler.com Lennox Industries (Canada) Ltd 2962 Lake City Way, Burnaby V5A 3A2 Rob Viau �� p604-421-5424 erob.viau@lennoxind.com Nationwide Home Plumbing Service Ltd 1532 128th St, Surrey V4A 3T7 Mark Neild �� p604-542-4663 einfo@homeplumbingservice.ca wwww.homeplumbingservice.ca

TRAK International 171 Commercial Dr Suite 102, Kelowna V1X 7W2 Sabine Maxwell �� p250-491-8460 wwww.trakge.com Trane BC 3080 Beta Ave, Burnaby V5G 4K4 Walter Linck �� p604-473-5600 wwww.trane.com/vancouver

SIP Distribution Inc 79 3rd Ave W, Vancouver V5Y 3T8 �� p604-876-1950 einfo@sipdistribution.ca Smoothcuts Painting Inc Vancouver  Liam Milford �� p778-233-8626 einquiry@smoothcuts.ca wwww.smoothcuts.ca

OTHER GREEN PRODUCTS

PLUMBING

Architek Sustainable Building Solutions 3715 Puget Dr, Vancouver V6L 2T8 Ronald Schwenger �� p604-861-9446 eron@architek.com wwww.architek.com Fraser Valley Equipment Ltd 13399 72 Ave, Surrey V3W 2N5 Terry WB Robbins �� p604-590-1433 esales@fraservalleyequipment.com wwww.fraservalleyequipment.com GreenWorks Building Supply Inc 79 3rd Ave W, Vancouver V5Y 3T8 Peter McGee �� p604-685-3611 einfo@greenworksbuildingsupply.com wwww.greenworksbuildingsupply.com

Blu Bathworks 188 Smithe St, Vancouver V6B 6A9 Paula Coen �� p604-299-0122 einfo@blubathworks.com wwww.blubathworks.com CuraFlo of BC Ltd 7436 Fraser Park Dr, Burnaby V5J 5B9 Randy Christie �� p604-298-7278 echristier@curaflo.com wwww.curaflo.com/bc Equipco Ltd 42 Fawcett Rd Suite 101, Coquitlam V3K 6X9 �� p604-522-5590 esales@equipcoltd.com wwww.equipcoltd.com GOGREEN Environmental Consulting Inc 1155 Grant St, Vancouver V6A 2J7 Erling Kjerside �� p604-657-2724 eerling@gogreenwastewater.com wwww.gogreenwastewater.com Hy-Line Sales Ltd 27355 Gloucester Way Unit 2A, Langley V4W 3Z8 Peter Way �� p604-856-5648 epeter@hylinesales.com wwww.hylinesales.com Terra Mechanical Ltd 1643 Beach Grove Rd, Delta V4L 1P4 John Rosse �� p778-858-2991 eoffice@terramechanical.ca wwww.terramechanical.ca

RENEWABLE ENERGY & ONSITE ENERGY PRODUCTION

ICBA Benefits Services Ltd 3823 Henning Dr Suite 211, Burnaby V5C 6P3 Alain Bergeron �� p604-298-7752 einfo@icbabenefits.ca wwww.benefit-plan.ca/green Complete health and retirement plans for companies and their employees – including Canada’s first carbon-neutral group insurance program. Planet Clean Canada Inc 1609 Derwent Way, Delta V3M 6K8 Sally Claire �� p604-327-1101 einfo@planetclean.com wwww.planetclean.com

PAINTS & COATINGS

Endurance Wind Power 19052 26th Ave Suite 107, Surrey V3S 3V7 �� p888-440-4451 einfo@endurancewindpower.com wwww.endurancewindpower.com Future Energy Resources Inc 2188 No 5 Rd Suite 190, Richmond V6X 2T1 Sarj Sethi �� p604-278-7244 einfo@solarpowernrg.com wwww.solarpowernrg.com Solaris Manufacturing Inc 1815 Settler Rd, Qualicum Beach V9K 2R6 Bruce Gray �� p604-758-2017 esolarisgeothermal@gmail.com wwww.solar-hot-water.ca Sun Bright Solar Inc 20140 120B Ave, Maple Ridge V2X 3K5 Paul Sim �� p604-459-4551 epaul@sunbrightsolar.ca wwww.sunbrightsolar.ca

ROOFING

Detec Systems 1728 Shearwater Terrace, Sidney V8L 5L4 Carey Jenkins �� p604-742-0911 ecary.jenkins@detecsystems.com wwww.detecsystems.com GR Green Building Products 3191 Thunderbird Cres Suite 117, Burnaby V5A 3G1 Natalia Bouvier �� p604-808-7518 enatalia@grgreen.com wwww.grgreen.com

MAC Building Products Ltd 38 Leopold Pl Suite 1104, New Westminster V3L 2C6 Mickey MacMurchy �� p604-526-5153 emacbuild@telus.net

SITE WORK & LANDSCAPING

Deep Root Canada Corp 2425 Quebec St Suite 201, Vancouver V5T 4L6 Michael James �� p604-687-0899 emjames@deeproot.com wwww.deeproot.com Eco Paving 145 Schoolhouse St Suite 38, Coquilam V3K 4X8 Brad Lavigne �� p800-609-5408 einfo@ecopaving.ca wwww.ecopaving.ca

STRUCTURAL FRAMING

Western Reclaimed Timber 26324 River Rd PO Box 93 Stn Whonnock, Maple Ridge V2W 1V9 Amika Scott �� p604-462-8845 einfo@westernreclaimed.com wwww.westernreclaimed.com

WINDOWS

Innotech Windows & Doors Inc 31290 Wheel Ave, Abbotsford V2T 6H1 Mika Laspa �� p604-854-1111 einfo@innotech-windows.com wwww.innotech-windows.com Joel Berman Glass Studios Ltd 1081 Cliveden Ave Suite 110, Delta V3M 5V1 Emmanuelle Roux �� p604-636-3717 einfo@jbermanglass.com wwww.jbermanglass.com Vinyltek Windows 587 Ebury Pl, Delta V3M 6M8 Austin Woodward �� p604-540-0029 eaustin@vinyltek.com wwww.vinyltek.com

GE0EXCHANGE

GeoExchange BC is a non-profit, industry-driven association of private and public interests in British Columbia and throughout Canada. Our focus is to provide information, education, training, certification and resources for the growing geoexchange and diverse heat pump industry. GeoExchange BC is managed by a group of elected directors and has a growing membership of individuals and corporations from all sectors.

CONTRACTORS

Capital City Refrigeration Ltd Saanichton �� p250-665-7766 Tim Sykes etim@capitalcityrefrigeration.com Custom Air Conditioning Port Coquitlam �� p604-975-7728 Chris Bradbeer echrisb@customair.ca Ron Georgi erong@customair.ca Jeff Kawaguchi ejeffk@customair.ca Peter Whiten epeterw@customair.ca Drillwell Enterprises Ltd Duncan �� p250-746-5268 David Slade edrill@drillwell.com

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Ground Source Drilling Ltd Kelowna �� p250-808-7155 Scott Steward escott@groundsourcedrilling.com Len Faasse escott@groundsourcedrilling.com GroundForce geoDrilling Solutions Calgary �� p403-200-7390 Barry Milner ebmilner@groundforcedrilling.com Rick Cronin ercronin@groundforcedrilling.com Tony Mooney etmooney@groundforcedrilling.com Hvactech Systems Inc Whitehorse �� p867-393-4822 Roy Whiten ehvac@northwestel.net Markey Mechanical Ltd Williams Lake �� p250-398-7026 Keith Tjosvold ekeith@markey.ca Ray Hale ekeith@markey.ca Dwayne Schouten ekeith@markey.ca Mercury Refrigeration Products & Services Ltd Shawnigan Lake �� p250-686-1716 Jason Rockson ejason@mercuryrefrigeration.ca Okanagan Geothermal Ltd Enderby ��p250-838-0809 Jim Croken ejim@okanagangeothermal.net Red Williams Well Drilling Ltd Qualicum Beach �� p250-248-4551 William Williams eredwoodcentre@shaw.ca Thomas Williams eredwoodcentre@shaw.ca Schmidt Bros Plumbing & Heating Ltd Vancouver �� p604-224-7068 Roland Schmidt eroland@schmidtbros.ca

Jade West Engineering Co Ltd Surrey �� p604-538-0764 John Makepeace ejohn@jadewest.com Leila Vaire eleila@jadewest.com David Iwabu edavid@jadewest.com JDQ Engineering Ltd Vernon �� p778-803-1233 Jeff Quibell ejquibell@jdqeng.com Piteau Associates Engineering Ltd North Vancouver �� p778-484-1777 Remi Allard erallard@piteau.com REW Consulting Engineers Port Moody �� p604-505-5940 Rene Wedding erwedding@rewassociates.com Stewart Weir Sherwood Park �� p780-410-2580 Ron Maine eron.maine@opussw.com Town of Qualicum Beach Qualicum Beach �� p250-752-6921 Bob Weir ebweir@qualicumbeach.com Dick Stubbs edstubbs@qualicumbeach.com Luke Sales elsales@qualicumbeach.com

CONTRACTORS & SUPPLIERS/ MANUFACTURERS/ UTILITIES

FortisBC Victoria �� p250-380-5794 Jarek Bekesza ejarek.bekesza@fortisbc.com Deacon Tong etes@fortisbc.com Grant Bierlmeier etes@fortisbc.com Jane Chan etes@fortisbc.com Ryan Dibai etes@fortisbc.com Gareth Jones etes@fortisbc.com Richard Marier etes@fortisbc.com Nicola Simon etes@fortisbc.com

DESIGNERS & CONTRACTORS

ENGINEERS, DESIGNERS, CONTRACTORS & SUPPLIERS/ MANUFACTURERS/ UTILITIES

Sonic Drilling Ltd Surrey �� p604-588-6080 Jackquie Grant ejgrant@sonicdrilling.com Bill Fitzgerald ejgrant@sonicdrilling.com Ray Roussy ejgrant@sonicdrilling.com

Lockhart Industries (Duncan) Ltd Duncan �� p250-748-1731 Doug Lockhart elockhart@lockhart.ca

ENGINEERS

Associated Engineering Burnaby �� p604-293-1411 Ruben Arellano earellanor@ae.ca Rachel Bolongaro ebolongaror@ae.ca Dan Higginson ehigginsond@ae.ca City of Surrey Surrey �� p604-591-4742 Jason Owen ejowen@surrey.ca DEC Engineering New Westminster �� p604-525-3341 Ryan Carter eryan.carter@decmail.ca Jason Heinrich ejason.heinrich@decmail.ca Doug Koller edoug.koller@decmail.ca Yan Ma eyan.ma@decmail.ca Aaron McCartie eaaron.mccartie@decmail.ca Tom Ren etom.ren@decmail.ca C.L. Tsang ecl.tsang@decmail.ca Jim White ejim.white@decmail.ca Tim Zhang etim.zhang@decmail.ca Andrew Byrnes eandrew.byrnes@decmail.ca Scott McAllister escott.mcallister@decmail.ca HPF Engineering Ltd Kamloops �� p250-828-7992 Neal Rogers eneal@hpfengineering.com

ENGINEERS & CONTRACTORS

Geoenergia Vancouver �� p604-682-1410 Tommaso Mascetti et.mascetti@geoenergia.net Armando Mascetti et.mascetti@geoenergia.net

ENGINEERS & SUPPLIERS/ MANUFACTURERS/ UTILITIES

GeoTility Geothermal Installations Corp Vancouver �� p604-273-5776 Jordan Parro ejparro@geotility.ca Rick Nelson ernelson@geotility.ca Stuart Yanow esyanow@geotility.ca Rafael Feeney erfeeney@geotility.ca

International Pipe Inc Selkirk �� p204-482-4675 Crystal Thibeault ecrystal@internationalpipe.ca April Godlein ecrystal@internationalpipe.ca Kelly Culbertson ecrystal@internationalpipe.ca NextEnergy West Technologies Ltd Enderby �� p778-214-1125 Nicholas Croken enick@nextenergywest.ca REHAU Industries Inc Coquitlam �� p604-616-6093 Ali Sajjadi eali.sajjadi@rehau.com Saeed Danesh eali.sajjadi@rehau.com

SERVICES

ARCHITECTS

Allan Diamond Architect 1807 Fir St, Vancouver V6J 3A9 �� p604-734-2004 eal@allandiamondarchitect.com wwww.allandiamondarchitect.com Architelier Architecture + Real Estate 1055 Richards St Suite 1803, Vancouver V6B 0C2 Danny Wong �� p604-773-2068 einfo@architelier.com Cannon Design Architecture Inc 1500 Georgia St W Suite 710, Vancouver V6G 2Z6 �� p604-688-5710 wwww.cannondesign.com CEI Architecture Planning Interiors 1500 Georgia St W Suite 500, Vancouver V6G 2Z5 �� p604-687-1898 ejboudreau@ceiarchitecture.com wwww.ceiarchitecture.com D’Ambrosio Architecture + Urbanism 2960 Jutland Rd, Victoria V8T 5K2 Franc D’Ambrosio �� p250-384-2400 email@fdarc.ca wwww.fdarc.ca DRK Design 1286 7th Ave W, Vancouver V6H 1B6 David Kominek �� p604-928-6036 einfo@drkdesign.ca wwww.drkdesign.ca Elemental Architecture and Interiors Inc 3989 Henning Dr Suite 118, Burnaby V5C 6P8 Terra Shimbashi �� p604-568-6990 einfo@eaii.ca wwww.eaii.ca

GOVERNMENT/ EDUCATION/INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS

City of Vancouver Vancouver �� p604-871-6695 Mark Hartman emark.hartman@vancouver.ca

SUPPLIERS/ MANUFACTURERS/ UTILITIES

Enerwest Geothermal Distribution Nelson �� p250-825-4011 Garry Meadows egarry@enerwest.net Hydron-Aire / Water Furnace West Vancouver �� p204-794-9983 Wayne Carpenter ewaterfurnacewayne@shaw.ca

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PUBLISHING GROUP INC

Formwerks Architectural Inc 1625 5th Ave W, Vancouver V6J 1N5 �� p604-683-5441 eoffice@formwerks.net wwww.formwerksarchitectural.net Frits De Vries Architects Ltd 1834 1st Ave W, Vancouver V6J 1G5 Frits De Vries �� p604-736-7820 wwww.frits.ca Gower Design Group 2459 Cousins Ave Suite 212, Courtenay V9N 3N6 John Gower �� p250-871-8765 edesign@gowerdesigngroup.com wwww.gowerdesigngroup.com Iredale Group Architecture 1 Alexander St Suite 202, Vancouver V6A 1B2 �� p604-736-5581 earchitect@iredale.ca wwww.iredale.ca Jan H Timmer Architecture Ltd 6655 Madrona Pl, West Vancouver V7W 2K1 Jan H Timmer �� p604-925-8068 ejtimmer@direct.ca KPL James Architecture Inc 519 Pandora Ave, Victoria V8W 1N5 Brian Kapuscinski �� p250-388-4261 einfo@kpljames.com wwww.kpljames.com Michel Labrie Architect Inc 128 Hastings St W Suite 210, Vancouver V6B 1G8 Michel Labrie �� p604-757-4702 emichel@mlarchitect.ca wwww.mlarchitect.ca Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership 555 Burrard St Suite 1600 Box 264, Vancouver V7X 1M9 William J Reid �� p604-687-2990 emcmp@mcmparchitects.com wwww.mcmparchitects.com MyHomeDesigner.com Ltd 2930 Lonsdale Ave Box 37109, North Vancouver V7N 4H9 Aryo Falakrou �� p604-929-6696 earyo@myhomedesigner.com wwww.myhomedesigner.com Omicron Canada Inc 595 Burrard St Suite 500 PO Box 49369, Vancouver V7X 1L4 Karena Selnar �� p604-632-3367 ekselnar@omicronaec.com wwww.omicronaec.com

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One SEED Architecture + Interiors Inc 525 Seymour St Suite 611, Vancouver V6B 3H7 Allison Holden-Pope �� p604-566-9808 einfo@oneseed.ca wwww.oneseed.ca Pacific Image Home Designs Ltd 402 Pender St W Suite 604, Vancouver V6B 1T6 Ron van der Eerden �� p604-687-6728 eron@pacificimagehomedesigns.com wwww.pacificimagehomedesigns.com Perkins+Will Canada Architects Co 1220 Homer St, Vancouver V6B 2Y5 Kathy Wardle �� p604-484-1558 ekathy.wardle@perkinswill.com wwww.perkinswill.com Ramsay Worden Architects Ltd 355 Kingsway, Vancouver V5T 3J7 Bev Holmes �� p604-736-8959 eadmin@rwa.ca wwww.rwa.ca Site Lines Architecture Inc 9188 Glover Rd Suite 200 PO Box 249, Fort Langley V1M 2R6 �� p604-881-7173 ereception@sitelines.ca wwww.sitelines.ca Stantec 111 Dunsmuir St Suite 1100, Vancouver V6B 6A3 Tyler Tardi �� p604-696-8000 etyler.tardi@stantec.com wwww.stantec.com

ASSOCIATIONS

BC Building Envelope Council 1410 55 St, Delta V4M 3K5 Molly Shipowich �� p604-294-0037 einfo@bcbec.com wwww.bcbec.com

BC Insulators-Heat & Frost Insulators 118 233 11th Ave E, Vancouver V5T 2C4 �� p604-877-0909 f604-877-0926 wwww.insulators118.org BC Road Builders and Heavy Construction Association 8678 Greenall Ave Suite 307, Burnaby V5J 3M6 Jack Davidson �� p604-436-0220 einfo@roadbuilders.bc.ca wwww.roadbuilders.bc.ca

BC Sustainable Energy Association (BCSEA) 2947 Tillicum Rd PO Box 44104 Gorge Plaza, Victoria V9A 7K1 �� p604-332-0025 einfo@bcsea.org wwww.bcsea.org British Columbia Insulation Contractors Association 2465 Beta Ave Suite 214, Burnaby V5C 5N1 Brian Hofler �� p604-438-6616 einfo@bcica.org wwww.bcica.org Building Owners and Managers Association of BC 409 Granville St Suite 556, Vancouver V6C 1T2 �� p604-684-3916 einfo@boma.bc.ca wwww.boma.bc.ca Built Green Canada 8615 104 St, Edmonton, AB T6E 4G6 Jenifer Christenson �� p780-485-0920 einfo@builtgreencanada.ca wwww.builtgreencanada.ca Canadian Home Builders’ Association of BC 3700 Willingdon Ave Bldg NW5 BCIT Campus, Burnaby V5G 3H2 Vanessa Joehl �� p604-432-7112 evanessa@chbabc.org wwww.chbabc.org Cascadia Green Building Council 520 Industrial Ave, Vancouver V6A 2P3 Stacia Miller �� p604-909-9559 einfo@cascadiagbc.org wwww.living-future.org/cascadia Green Chamber of Commerce BC (GCCBC) Burnaby  �� econtact@greenchamberofcommercebc.org wwww.greenchamberofcommercebc.org Masonry Institute of BC 3636 4th Ave E, Vancouver V5M 1M3 Bill McEwen �� p604-291-1458 einfo@masonrybc.org wwww.masonrybc.org Mechanical Contractors Association of BC 3989 Henning Dr Suite 223, Burnaby V5C 6N5 �� p604-205-5058 estaff@mcabc.org wwww.mcabc.org Planning Institute of British Columbia (PIBC) 355 Burrard St Suite 1750, Vancouver V6C 2G8 �� p604-696-5031 einfo@pibc.bc.ca wwww.pibc.bc.ca Recycling Council of BC 119 Pender St W Suite 10, Vancouver V6B 1S5 �� p604-683-6009 ercbc@rcbc.ca wwww.rcbc.ca

Roofing Contractors Association of BC 9734 201 St, Langley V1M 3E8 �� p604-882-9734 eroofing@rcabc.org wwww.rcabc.org Sustainable Development Technology Canada 999 Canada Pl Suite 404, Vancouver V6C 3E2 Paul W Austin �� p604-844-2857 wwww.sdtc.ca Urban Development Institute – Pacific Region 602 Hastings St W Suite 200, Vancouver V6B 1P2 �� p604-669-9585 wwww.udi.bc.ca Vancouver Island Construction Association 1075 Alston St, Victoria V9A 3S6 Greg Baynton �� p250-388-6471 wwww.vicabc.ca Vancouver Regional Construction Association 3636 4th Ave E, Vancouver V5M 1M3 �� p604-294-3766 evrca@vrca.bc.ca wwww.vrca.bc.ca

BUILDING CONTRACTORS

Blackfish Homes Ltd 1305 Welch St Suite 107, North Vancouver V7P 1B3 Michelle Mix �� p604-980-0814 einfo@blackfishhomes.ca wwww.blackfishhomes.ca CCI Renovations 1305 Welch St Suite 129, North Vancouver V7P 1B3 John Friswell �� p604-980-8384 ejohn@ccirenos.com wwww.ccirenos.com CuraFlo of BC Ltd 7436 Fraser Park Dr, Burnaby V5J 5B9 Randy Christie �� p604-298-7278 echristier@curaflo.com wwww.curaflo.com/bc Division 15 Mechanical Ltd 6582 144th St, Surrey V3W 5R4 Dinos Hadjiloizou �� p604-214-8730 einfo@div15mechanical.com wwww.div15mechanical.com Double V Construction Ltd 13303 78 Ave Suite 406, Surrey V3W 5B9 Shane Van Vliet �� p604-590-3131 einfo@doublevconstruction.com wwww.doublevconstruction.com Econ Group Construction & Development Ltd 510 Chesterfield Ave Suite 402, North Vancouver V7M 2L9 �� p604-618-0284 esales@econgroup.ca wwww.econgroup.ca

Ecosol Design & Construction Ltd 2124 Venables St, Vancouver V5L 2J4 Arno Schmidt �� p604-254-0258 earno_ecosol@telus.net wwww.ecosolrammedearth.ca Design-build: Rammed Earth structures and homes; heritage restoration. Providing passive solar, energy sensitive, health wise, sustainable solutions. www. ecosoldesignconstruction.ca Geo-Tech Geothermal Heating & Air Conditioning 2022 154th St, Surrey V4A 4S3 Barry Hart �� p604-319-2220 wwww.geo-techgeothermal.ca InHaus Development Ltd 1168 Hamilton St Suite 505, Vancouver V6B 2S2 Dave deBruyn �� p604-900-1820 einfo@inhaus.ca wwww.inhaus.ca Inspired Renovations 1351 Grant St, Vancouver V3S 8V1 Allen Hemmelgarn �� p778-859-7366 einfo@inspiredrenovations.ca wwww.inspiredrenovations.ca Knights Insulation Ltd 5541 Dorset St, Burnaby V5J 1L6 Nathan Knights �� p604-437-7290 egeneral@knightsinsulation.ca maison d’etre design-build inc 118 2nd Ave W, Vancouver V5Y 1C2 �� p604-484-4030 wwww.maisondetre.ca Naikoon Contracting Ltd 342 Esplanade E, North Vancouver V7L 1A4 Joe Geluch �� p778-340-1566 einfo@naikoon.ca wwww.naikooncontracting.com Performance Construction Ltd 21331 Gordon Way Unit 1150, Richmond V6W 1J5 Allan Deans �� p604-628-9620 eallan@perfcon.ca wwww.perfcon.ca Silver Valley Homes Ltd PO Box 376, Maple Ridge V2X 8K9 Gord Knuttila �� p604-240-3159 esilvervalleyhomes@shaw.ca wwww.silvervalleyhomes.ca Sonbuilt Custom Homes Ltd 4848 275 St Suite 101A, Langley V4W 0A3 Jonathan Zerkee �� p604-626-4688 wwww.sonbuilthomes.com Velsen Homes Gabriola Island  Adam Velsen �� p250-247-8808 eadam@velsen.ca wwww.velsen.ca

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