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Abondance le Soleil project is a highly energy — and resource-efficient triplex being built on an empty lot in Verdun, Quebec, just south of downtown Montreal. One of the CMHC EQuilibrium Winners READ MORE

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Avalon Discovery 3 is a grid-tied, solar-powered single family home designed to produce as much energy each year as it consumes on an annual basis. READ MORE

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Sustainable strategy to reduce water consumption.

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UBC's first green building, the CK Choi, features approaches to reducing energy, water and resource use that were unprecedented at the time. Built before LEED green building standards were in place, this 3000m2 building set new green building benchmarks. It maintains its presence as a high-performance, innovative building and continues to draw a great deal of interest from green building professionals and the public.

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1855 West Mall, Vancouver, BC

UBC's first green building, the CK Choi, features approaches to reducing energy, water and resource use that were unprecedented at the time. Built before LEED green building standards were in place, this 3000m2 building set new green building benchmarks. It maintains its presence as a high-performance, innovative building and continues to draw a great deal of interest from green building professionals and the public.

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1855 West Mall UBC, Vancouver, BC

Key Sustainability Features

• Minimal site disturbance
• Maximum daylight penetration into building
• Lights regulated by sensors
• Reuse of local salvaged materials
• Wastewater reduction strategies

When the C.K. Choi Building was opened in June 1996, it set a benchmark for green design in North America. Front-loaded with an emphasis on design, it used an integrated design process that required that engineers and architects to work together in close collaboration.

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, Philadelphia, PA

The Cusano Environmental Education Center (CEEC) is located at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum in Philadelphia. The project consists of two buildings—a classroom building and an exhibit building—linked by a boardwalk. A third building, for administrative offices, will be constructed in the future. The CEEC's three main goals are: preserving and restoring Tinicum marsh, promoting environmental education, and providing visitors with an opportunity to study wildlife in its natural habitat.

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510 Chesterfield Ave, North Vancouver, BC

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EchoHaven is a complete community of 25 healthy, low-impact homes. Located in a unique area rich in wetlands, stands of aspen trees and rolling grasslands, the project represents a significant achievement in the application of EQuilibrium™ principles within a community setting. READ MORE

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, Los Altos Hills, CA

Hidden Villa is an environmental education organization sited on a bucolic 1,650-acre farm and wilderness preserve in the coastal hills between San Francisco and San Jose. For the past 75 years, the organization has engaged visitors in innovative, hands-on outdoor education programs, including a demonstration organic farm, a summer camp, and a youth hostel since 1937 (the oldest hostel west of the Mississippi). The new hostel facility brings the playful, educative, community-oriented spirit of Hidden Villa to structures that harmonize with the site's agrarian precedent.

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560 -- 598 Hawks Ave, Vancouver, BC

Key Sustainability Features

• Infill development - compact high density 
• Heat recovery ventilators (HVRs) and greywater heat recovery, solar hot water system
• Building reuse and repurpose
• Pedestrian-oriented design 
• Reduced outdoor water use

This six-unit strata townhouse infill development features adaptive reuse of an auto service building, Koo's Auto Service, which was built in the 1940s. Part infill, part addition, this project achieved a Floor Space Ratio (FSR) of 0.95 by renovating the existing garage building to accommodate two loft-style housing units, and building an additional four units on the former parking lot.

Koo's Corner blends into the existing heritage neighbourhood through pedestrian oriented design, sympathetic massing, colour, and roof forms that reference the surrounding houses. This design approach helped to maintain liveability on a tight lot in this high density development. By maintaining the building and name of the former auto garage the project retains the visual history of the area.

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560-598 Hawks Ave., Vancouver, BC

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2060 Pine Street, Vancouver, BC

Light House is Canada’s first sustainable building centre, which recently opened its new 5,400-square feet (approximately 502 square metre) facility at 2060 Pine Street in Vancouver. Open six days a week, Light House is a combination of green building gallery and tradeshow with ongoing displays and exhibitions to inspire and inform visitors and to help companies make new business connections. Light House also houses a green building library and an education centre. Light House is a vibrant and accessible destination for the green building industry and provides meeting space to companies and community groups.Founded in November 2005 by Simon Fraser University and Ecotrust Canada, Light House is a broadly supported non-profit market catalyst funded by the business community and its own programs and services.

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510 Chesterfield Ave, North Vancouver, BC

Quayside Village (Quayside) is a 19 unit low-rise multi-family cohousing development located in Lower Lonsdale in the City of North Vancouver, British Columbia.

Awarded the Silver Georgie Award for Best Low-Rise development in 1999, Quayside has a greywater reclamation system incorporated into the building design that collects treats household greywater collected from showers, baths, lavatory sinks, laundry and kitchens in the building, and reuses the treated greywater to flush toilets.

The Healthy House greywater treatment system was supplied by Creative Communities Research Inc. (CCRJ) based in Toronto, Ontario, and funded by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's Research Division. The system design was based on similar technologies used for the Healthy House project in Toronto, Ontario, where treated domestic wastewater is used for a wide range of non-potable water uses including flushing toilets, showers & bathing, lavatory sinks, laundry, and irrigation for two side-by-side townhouses.

The building is located in an area where municipal water and wastewater services are available. Although the original intent was to apply the reuse water for toilet flushing, laundry, irrigation, and showers/bathing, the City of North Vancouver building inspection plumbing permit department was willing to consider only a toilet reuse application.

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510 Chesterfield Ave, City of North Vancouver, BC

Key Sustainability Features

• Compact development: reduces resource use and energy consumption
• Affordable housing: five units
• Active transportation: only 23 parking spaces
• Composting
• Recycling: 63% of all garbage
• Re-use of on-site materials for construction
• Energy efficiency: designed with BC Hydro's Powersmart Program and BC Gas Energy Efficiency Program
• Greywater reuse system

Located in North Vancouver's Lonsdale district, Quayside Village is a 19-unit, medium-density cohousing development that was planned, designed, and developed by its residents with a green mandate.

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601 Keefer St, Vancouver, BC

Since 1987, Strathcona Community Gardens has been cultivating 2.83 hectares of urban land to provide food for local residents and to educate the public. As a purely volunteer-driven community-based initiative, the intention of the garden is to promote sustainability and urban agriculture while providing local residents with the means to grow fresh food and create habitat for wildlife. Due to overwhelming demand, the site was expanded in 1991 to include the Cottonwood gardens. These gardens transformed a former city dump site into a vibrant landscape that provides individual garden plots as well as on-site education resources. The Strathcona and Cottonwood gardens have received local recognition and awards as well as international acclaim.

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, Bocas del Toro,

The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) is a renowned world leader in research on the ecology, behavior, and evolution of tropical organisms. Their new research station is located at a former sawmill, on a sensitive coastal site next to a mangrove swamp, on an island off the Caribbean coast of Panama.

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, Gay Head, MA

The Wampanoag Tribal Multi-Purpose Building serves as an administrative, educational, and social center for the Wampanoag tribe, which has inhabited Martha's Vineyard for hundreds of years.

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