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507 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC

The Crossroads Mixed-use Development is located between 8th Avenue and Broadway along Cambie Street in Vancouver. Due to its size, street frontages, sloping topography and ready transit access, the site is ideally suited to a mix of uses. The project houses large-format food and drug stores, commercial retail units, rental office space, a bank, two restaurants, and market residential uses.

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800 Johnson Street, Victoria, BC

The Mazda building is an 7,526 SM (81,009 SF), 6-storey office building located at 800 Johnson Street in downtown Victoria, BC. Built around 1990, the building has undergone numerous audits and upgrades to improve its energy and environmental performance, and has also been awarded BOMA BESt certification. The building is currently registered with the Canada Green Building Council and is aiming for LEED Gold under the LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance.

To view real time energy consumption for The Mazda Building, please visit the following link: http://client.pulseenergy.com/357689BCLtd/dashboard/

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1105 Royal Ave., New Westminster, BC

The Rhoda Kaellis is a 4-storey, 1,591 m2 multi-unit residential building, built as part of BC Housing’s Homelessness initiative. The 24 units, operated and managed by the Lookout Society.

The Rhoda Kaellis Residence is attempting LEED Silver Certification under the LEED Canada guidelines for New Construction & Major Renovations and Multi-Unit Residential Buildings.

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1 Athletes Way, Vancouver, British Columbia

The South East False Creek Community Centre is located on the False Creek waterfront, in the heart of the Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Village. During the 2010 Winter Games the building was used as office space for the Olympic and Paralympic mayor, management staff and Four Host First Nations, and also hosted amenities for athletes. The facility will now be converted to a two-level, 4,227 square metre community centre including a child-care facility, a non-power boating centre, and space for a restaurant. It will be targeting LEED Platinum certification.

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1890 Spyglass Place, Vancouver, BC

The Neighbourhood Energy Utility (NEU) is an environmentally-friendly community energy system that provides space heating and domestic hot water to all new buildings in Southeast False Creek (SEFC).

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6810 Main St, Vancouver, BC

The new Sunset Community Centre is 30,000 square feet, over 20 percent larger than the existing centre. Major programmable space includes a full-sized gymnasium, two multipurpose rooms, a fitness centre, aerobics/dance room, arts and crafts room, youth room and two pre-schools.

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1 Kingsway, Vancouver, BC

The Mount Pleasant Centre is a gleaming multi-service civic centre with virtually everything under the roof. The heart of the building is the new Community Centre, featuring a gym and climbing wall, a fitness centre, dancing studio, multi-purpose rooms and outdoor space. Mount Pleasant Centre also houses a new Vancouver Public Library, Child Development Centre, café and market value rental housing.

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3350 Victoria Drive, Vancouver, BC

One of the stunning new venues of the 2010 Winter Games, located in the Kensington-Cedar Cottage neighborhood. This new rink was home to figure skating training sessions for the 2010 Winter Games, and will be converted to community recreation use. The Trout Lake Ice Rink figure skating training venue is barrier-free and will be fully accessible for all users in the community.

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6270 University Blvd., Vancouver, BC

The project consists of renovation and upgrades to two wings of the Biological Sciences complex at UBC Point Grey campus, resulting in increased functionality, improvements in energy and water efficiency and some landscape work replacing existing planting with adaptive species for improved stormwater managment.  Renovation rather than demolition and building new was specifically chosen to reduce environmental impact. 

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1055 Canada Place, Vancouver, BC

The Vancouver Convention Centre West was completed in April 2009, and highlights the best of west coast green building design and operation. It features a 5 acre living roof, on-site wastewater treatment plant, locally harvested and manufactured wood finishes, and a high quality, energy efficient environment. Building operators have implemented a green housekeeping program, a comprehensive green building tour, and have innovative waste management practices. It is targeting a LEED Gold certification from the Canada Green Building Council.

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4575 Clancy Loranger Way, Vancouver, British Columbia

The Vancouver Olympic/ Paralympic Centre is located in Vancouver’s Riley Park neighbourhood near Queen Elizabeth Park. It was the home of competition curling events during the 2010 Winter Games. The venue will now be converted to a community facility for the residents of Vancouver, housing a new community centre, ice rink, curling club, library, preschool, field house and offices, as well as an aquatic centre with indoor and outdoor pools. The entire complex is fully accessible.

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1702 Columbia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia

The Olympic and Paralympic Village is part of the Southeast False Creek (SEFC) development. The SEFC site includes 32 hectares of formerly industrial lands which constituted the last remaining tract of undeveloped waterfront land in downtown Vancouver. The SEFC development has over 600,000 square meters of residential development, approximately 6,200 housing units, and an estimated total population ranging from 10,000 to 12,000 people. The first phase of the development, completed at the end of 2009, temporarily accommodated athletes of the 2010 Olympic/Paralympic Winter Games, after which it was converted into a high-density, mixed-use sustainable neighbourhood with approximately 1,100 housing units.

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