Keith Rd., City of North Vancouver, BC

Key Sustainability Features

• Urban greenway integrating recreational, ecological and sustainable transportation components
• Innovative civil infrastructure - traffic calming, stormwater management, urban forestry, naturalized landscapes, alternative transportation 

The Green Necklace project is a 7 km long urban greenway that encompasses the Central Lonsdale district in the City of North Vancouver. Originally conceived of as part of the City of North Vancouver's 1907 town plan, the Green Necklace is part of a city-wide Greenways Plan developed in 2002 to integrate recreational, ecological and sustainable transportation components throughout the city. The Green Necklace builds on existing infrastructure to link components of the City's park and open space system in a continuous network of recreational and ecologically planned spaces providing safe, alternative transportation routes.

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A rain garden is a planted depression that allows rainwater runoff from impervious urban areas like roofs, driveways, walkways, and compacted lawn areas the opportunity to be absorbed. This reduces rain runoff by allowing stormwater to soak into the ground.

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212 W. 1st , Vancouver, BC

Vancouver's Olympic Village on the Southeast False Creek (SEFC) site is designed to be a model of a sustainable neighbourhood. The site is about seven hectares in size and will consist of over 20 buildings, with approximately 1.5 million square feet of residential development. All SEFC buildings are designed to LEED Gold standard, with the community centre pursuing LEED Platinum. When completed, this will be the largest development project to be certified in Canada.

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, Cheakamus, BC

The Whistler Athletes' Village will be comprised of five main components: the residential zone, international zone, the transport mall, a main catering facility, and operations support area. Facilities will include team areas, multi-faith religious centre, clinics, recreation facilities, retail space, a 24-hour catering facility, warehousing, drivers' lounge, office space, support space and village media centre. The full area will cover 30 hectares (75 acres) and be approximately 1 million square feet in size, half of that allocated to housing, it will house 2,400 athletes and support staff.

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Cheakamus Crossing, Whistler, British Columbia

KEY SUSTAINABILITY FEATURES

• District Energy System: expected to meet up to 90% of heating and domestic hot water requirements of the development
• Natural stormwater management and treatment
• Compact, diverse neighbourhood design that supports active transportation
• LEED-ND pilot project

Located six kilometres south of the Resort Municipality of Whistler, the Whistler Olympic Village—also called Cheakamus Crossing--was built for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games to house approximately 3,500 visiting athletes and officials. The compact, pedestrian-focused development supports active transportation such as walking and bicycling, as well as car sharing. It is intended to become a vibrant neighbourhood with a diverse housing mix and proximity to numerous recreational opportunities and neighbourhood services.

Housing types include 221 resident-restricted homes for sale, fifty-five rental apartments for the Whistler Housing Authority, twenty market townhouses, 188 hostel beds and twenty unrestricted single-family lots. The neighbourhood also includes an Athletes Centre with the 100-room Athletes Lodge, twenty rental townhomes for athletes and the High Performance Centre. Following the Games, all of these will be managed and operated by the Whistler 2010 Sport Legacies Society. The Whistler Olympic/ Paralympic Village is one of only twenty Canadian developments designated as pilot projects for LEED-ND, which sets the highest standards in green neighbourhood design practices in North America.

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290 Summer Street , Yarmouth Port, MA

The World Headquarters for the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is located on Cape Cod in Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, where IFAW has pursued its work for thirty years. This project by DesignLab Architects, created a new base of operations for the nearly 200 people IFAW employs on the Cape.

The new IFAW headquarters encompasses 54,000 square feet of space in three connected buildings. The space is used for research, public relations, meetings, conferences, a worldwide data center, and serves as the hub for IFAW's 16 country offices. The project accomplishes its goals through a pragmatic low-cost, low-tech approach to sustainability based on fundamentals and common sense. The new IFAW headquarters is LEED Gold certified and cost just $220/ft2 to build.

The new building is inspired by a Herreshoff "12 1/2" sailboat that you might see in the waters off Cape Cod. Tight white boards cover the outside, while the inside exposes an elegant open structure and natural wood. The site landscape draws from the 18th-century Bartlett farm in nearby Barnstable as a model of landscape preservation. The resulting layout is in the tradition of rural Cape Cod development; a half-acre courtyard of native grasses, open to the south, centers the building complex, whose flexible architecture is located at the north, east and west edges of the site.

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