New Green Civic Administration Building – Cambridge Ontario
I felt pretty excited as I read through an article in the Cambridge Times today. I learned that there is a new green building being contructed in Cambridge Ontario, about 1/2 hour away from where I currently live.
The new civic administration building, which is expected to open sometime next year, is guaranteed a LEED Silver rating, but even may have a shot at achieving a Gold.
Some of the cool features include:
- Indoor ‘green wall’
- 3rd Floor green roof
- Onsite greywater recycling
Here are a couple of interesting blurbs from the article:
As part of the new atrium, a four-storey green wall is being installed, which is made up of plants that will filter the building’s air, improve air quality, reduce the need for air conditioning and help eliminate humidity.
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The building’s green wall is the most visible feature of the city’s conservation effort. It will also have a 10,000-litre cistern which will collect rainwater from the roof and use it as part of a gray-water recycling system to flush toilets, etc. The third floor of the building will have a green roof – the first on a city-owned building – which will help cool the structure in the summer and retain heat in the winter.
“When this roof is in place, the roof surface will get no hotter than 75 F; temperatures on roofs that don’t have a green roof can up well over 120 F,” said city architectural design technologist Slobodanka Lekic. “I’d like to put make the entire roof green, but this is a good start.”
At Cambridge Place, city staff currently use about 65,000 square feet of space. The new facility will have 85,000 square feet of space and will be able to accommodate the addition of another 50 staff members over the next 20 years.
“This building has been designed with the future in mind,” Paul said. “It has a lot of flexibility built into it. How the building and the civic square in front of it is programmed will be the key to its success.”
Sounds great to me. I can wait to take a tour once construction is complete!
Be sure to check out the original article in the Cambridge Times (link given at beginning of post)
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Written by Bentley on November 29th, 2006 with
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