TRCA's Regeneration Services Centre is a sustainable building from which the organization will deliver its sustainability-focused habitat regeneration and restoration projects as well as other initiatives conducted in support of the organization's Living City Vision. TRCA's multi-stakeholder Living City Vision is for "a new kind of community, The Living City, where human settlement can flourish forever as part of nature's beauty and diversity."
The building is a fundamental component of TRCA's Living City Centre Campus, which is may eventually become the site of the highest concentration of green buildings in Canada. In keeping with a building housing foresters, a native plant nursery, regeneration project designers and managers, and support services, the Regeneration Services Centre will be, first and foremost, designed and constructed to minimize impact on the nature that surrounds it. The building is to be located on "table-land" overlooking the East Humber River Valley.
Some of the exciting features of this building are:
heavy daylighting daylighting to maximize natural light, reducing electricity demands
minimized potable water utilization through composting/waterless WC technologies
use of recycled and enviro-friendly materials in construction
ground source heat pump used for heating and cooling
wetland ponds, constructed as part of the project, will collect and facilitate recycling of rainwater for native plant propogation activities
greenhouse incorporated into the building structure
green energy sourcing mandatory (already an organizational commitment)
designed to hold a future wind turbine
minimized outdoor lighting to reduce light pollution upwards and as seen from down in the valley
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