Sustainable Buildings Canada: Breakfast Seminars
Upcoming Dates:
- Wed, Oct 6, 2010
- Wed, Dec 8, 2010
SBC Breakfast - Aug 11, 2010:
EnWave Deep Lake Water Cooling
Constantine (Taki) Eliadis
Director of Program Services, GreenSaver
Enwave’s Deep Lake Water Cooling System is the largest lake-source cooling system in the world. In partnership with the City of Toronto and private investment, Enwave renewable cooling service displaces the need for commercial chillers in large office buildings in the downtown core. While the concept and design are extremely innovative, the construction of this project was equally impressive.
Constantine (Taki) Eliadis, will present a photo journey through the construction of the EnWave system which has revolutionized our approached to greening the downtown core of Toronto. Enwave claims a reduction of 80,000 tonnes of CO2 and equivalent peak electricity demand reduction of 61MW.
View the presentation + AUDIO - Aug 11, 2010
SBC Breakfast - Jun 16, 2010:
Real Time Monitoring: Seeing is Achieving
Scott Rouse
Managing Partner, Energy@Work
Monitoring energy use in real time is empowering building owners to significantly reduce there energy consumption and expenses. Powerful software applications allow building managers to access there energy usage data anytime, anywhere. With real time data, building managers can actively manage their energy profile by taking advantage of demand response, load shifting and price clipping. It allows for the creation of targets, and the verification of system operations and bills. This session will feature case studies and real client testimonials that highlight how companies are successfully using real time monitoring.
SBC Breakfast - Apr 15, 2010:
BRE & The Innovation Park
Nick Hayes, International Director
Rufus Logan, Director, Scotland
BRE
BRE
Best know for creating BREEAM, the most widely used environmental assessment method for buildings, BRE helps clients create better, safer and more sustainable products, buildings, communities and businesses - and supports the innovation needed to achieve this. The session will explore the latest initiatives coming out of BRE as well as provide a look at their world renown Innovation Park - a world leading and ground breaking demonstration development designed to give a glimpse of how the future delivery of sustainable buildings and communities can be achieved not only in the UK but around the world.
SBC Breakfast - Feb 10, 2010:
Indoor Climate Change
Greg Allen
Sustainability Strategist, HOK
What should designers be employing as the means of providing indoor environmental quality in response to the impacts of global warming and fuel depletion? Integrated solutions that come from the fusion of engineering and architectural perspectives still elude us, but, by exploring fundamentals and innovations, designers can uncover remarkable strategies that eliminate hydrocarbon dependency, create healthful conditions, and weather the economic and atmospheric storms before us.
Download the presentation - Feb 10, 2010
SBC Breakfast - Dec 9th, 2009:
Rooftop Solar Innovation and the Feed-in Tariff
Sandro Costa
President, Avacos Solar Energy
This December an innovative solar installation, managed by Avacos Solar Energy will be unveiled on the roof of DuRock Alfacing International. A 10kw grid-tied array of SANYO’s bifacial solar photovoltaic panels will generate power from both sides resulting in a gain of up to 30% more electricity. The system includes DuRock’s Tio-Coat white elastomeric urethane roof coating which provides 89% solar radiation reflectivity and reduces the cooling load in the building.
Sandro Costa, President of Avacos Solar Energy will present the project and describe how the Feed-in Tariff for rooftop solar arrays makes the financial case very attractive by delivering a revenue stream to owners.
Download the presentation - Dec 9, 2009
SBC Breakfast - Oct 21st, 2009:
LEDs and High Performance Lighting
Gerry Cornwell
Principal, Cornwell Lighting Consultants
Mr. Gerry Cornwell, one of Ontario's leading lighting design and technology specialists will introduce us to the latest in high performance lighting systems for the buildings sector. This session will debunk the myths of lighting performance, and illustrate which technologies are preferable for different applications. It is perfect for architects and interior designers looking at achieving optimal performance from lighting systems, and for building managers exploring lighting retrofit options.
SBC Breakfast - Aug 5th, 2009:
Latitude Housing System / North House Prototype
Geoffrey Thün
Partner, RVTR
Imagining the ways in which advanced manufacturing techniques might elevate the quality and availability of housing for a broad range of constituents has been a central priority of the design disciplines for the past century. The specific demands of northern climates on building envelope and energy performance have often remained beyond the gaze of these disciplinary concerns. Within the current context of global population migration, sustainable building imperatives, and the realignment of energy availability, coupled with contemporary industry capacities for mass-customization and technological advancement, this territory warrants renewed focus. An examination of both RVTR’s Latitude Housing System, and the current North House prototype being developed by Team North (Waterloo/Ryerson/SFU) for the 2009 Solar Decathlon will be discussed in terms of larger cycles of sustainable economic development, technical detailing and advanced manufacturing, and user-focused design strategies that seek to enable transformations in individual sustainable lifestyles.
SBC Breakfast - June 3rd, 2009:
Delivered Performance
Stephen Carpenter
President, Enermodal Engineering
While LEED buildings have been proven to save energy, water, and resources, typically they do not live up to their predicted efficiency potential. To address this common criticism of green buildings and LEED, Enermodal looked at its best performing buildings to see what they had in common in order to replicate this success.
The study found that Enermodal projects that used the full range of its green building services (including commissioning and measurement and verification) performed about 13% better in terms of energy savings than other buildings that only used its LEED consulting and energy analysis services.
The result is "Delivered Performance" a new service that not only encourages better performing buildings (46% of the energy use of a traditional Canadian office building), but turns the traditional pricing system for LEED consultants on its head.
This talk covers the study findings, including key building case studies and hard data, and how commonly discussed, but poorly understood services like commissioning can increase building efficiency.
Download the presentation - June 3, 2009
SBC Breakfast - Apr 8th, 2009:
The Revitalization Agenda
Bill Humber
Revitalization Institute
"The greenest building is the one already built, and a 'sustainable green' building that no one loves and wants to tear down is not sustainable or green." Bill Humber, Executive Director of Revitalization Institute (RI) will speak about RI - the academic network for restorative development emerging from the work of Storm Cunningham. RI is founded on the notion that the sweet spot of sustainability is based on renewing/restoring what already exists rather than destroying one asset to create something new. RI moved into Seneca College in the last year. Bill Humber was formerly Chair of Seneca's Centre for the Built Environment.
Download the presentation - Apr 8, 2009
SBC Breakfast - Feb 10th, 2009:
Laneway Housing
Peter Duckworth-Pilkington
ZAS Architects
With the increased focus on building density and miles of underutilized lanes in cities across North America, laneway housing is is an idea that keeps coming back. Peter Duckworth-Pilkington will showcase a unique laneway project that he completed in Toronto, and explore many of the barriers, both technical and political, to laneway housing projects.
Article and video on Treehugger.com
SBC Breakfast - Nov 26, 2008:
Buildings in a Carbon-Constrained Economy
Rob Blakeney
Morrison Hershfield
This talk focuses on the impact of building developments on climate change and how the building & construction sector is being called upon to help reduce the carbon footprint of buildings, which currently represents 35% of Greenhouse gas emissions in North America. Rob Blakeney addresses emerging trends in the climate change action including government initiatives, policies and mandates as well as initiatives within the private and NGO sectors. Further issues discussed include carbon trading mechanisms, markets and their relationship to buildings and how building owners could possibly benefit through participation in carbon markets.
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SBC Breakfast - OCT 21, 2008:
Tower Renewal Project: Refurbishing Toronto's Future
Graeme Stewart
E.R.A. Architects
Author of Concrete Toronto: A Guidebook to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies
The Tower Renewal Project is an initiative, led by the City of Toronto, to refurbish the region''s some 1000 aging modern apartments, for the ecological, economic and social benefit of the GTA. Key considerations for this multidisciplinary project include decreasing greenhouse gas emissions through the use of green technologies, onsite clean energy production, mixed-use and intensification potential, new transit options and other alternatives to the car, social service needs and delivery, community gardens and urban agricultural, and new employment opportunities. Drawing on international examples and local research, this presentation will outline the project''s potential to give Toronto’s modern heritage a sustainable future.
SBC Breakfast - July 9, 2008:
Urban Farming: Buldings and the Future of Food
Gord Graff
Designer of the GROW Housing and SkyFarm projects
By 2050 an additional 3 billion people worldwide will live within large urban centres. Coupled with rapidly depleting arable land reserves and rising energy costs, food security is a looming crisis. At the same time there is currently a growing initiative to realize a more ecologically sustainable form of urban living. These conditions have generated the context for the vertical farm concept. Gordon Graff has interpreted this concept as the designer of the GROW Housing and SkyFarm projects.
Download the presentation - July 9, 2008
SBC Breakfast - May 14, 2008:
Green Inspiration: The Next Generation of Homes
Andrew Pride, P.Eng., LEED®A.P
Vice President, Minto Green Team
Vice Chair, Canada Green Building Council
EQuillibrium challenged Canada's building community to design and construct scalable, marketable residential homes with superior environmental performance. Under the spotlight will be Minto's Inspiration Eco-Home, a net-zero demonstration residence that is currently under construction in Manotick, Ontario. Minto's Andrew Pride will speak to the process through which the Inspiration Eco-Home was realized and reflect on how the development community is attempting to "mainstream" green building design in residential homes.
Download the presentation - May 14, 2008
