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PERMIT HOLDERS PREPARE FOR TAKEOFF OF CARBON-NEUTRAL COMMUNITY
Planes no longer take off from Edmonton’s former City Centre Airport, but planning suggests new heights will be reached in renewable development on the site. APEGA Permit Holders ISL Engineering and Land Services Ltd . and Stantec are helping design the Edmonton project, which aims to be among the world’s first carbon-neutral communities. The 536-acre Blatchford community will be home to 30,000 residents in 11,000 units. Stantec provided design services to the City of Edmonton for stage one, which includes the first 250 residences and several parks on the community’s west side. The project is in the news because of City of Edmonton Council’s December 12, 2016 approval of the framework for a renewable energy system, along with $19.4 million in funding for its initial infrastructure.
Unprecedented in size and scale in North America, the system will include an exchange of energy between buildings, geo-exchange, solar photovoltaics, and sewer heat exchange. Greenhouse gas emissions are expected to be about 75 per cent lower — that’s about 42,000 tonnes per year — than in regular neighbourhoods of similar size. The project’s civil works and land-use planning consultant, ISL Engineering, designed a plan for sewer and drainage services with the goal of reusing both sanitary and storm water. A six-hectare wetland system will allow storm water to be treated and reused. The plan also provides the option of having a wastewater treatment system that would supply grey water to households.
-artist's renderings courtesy City of Edmonton — Blatchford Community Website
THE SUN, THE EARTH, THE COMMUNITY Photovoltaics and geo-exchange are part of the approved framework for a renewable energy system at the Blatchford community in Edmonton (left); storm drainage becomes habitat in the City of Edmonton’s vision for the former City Centre Airport.
PLEASE TAKE A BOW, CAMROSE THEATRE PROJECT Earning well-deserved applause in environmental construction is a Camrose performing arts centre that carries the name of an Alberta premier and his wife. The Jeanne & Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Centre in Camrose has received a 2016 Canadian Institute of Steel Construction National Award in Sustainability. APEGA Permit Holders Read Jones Christoffersen, Whitemud
The centre features a photovoltaic array that blankets a 22-metre fly-tower. And it’s the first theatre in North America to use LED lighting throughout — to light the stage, the house, the rest of the interior of the building, and even the building’s exterior. A collaboration of the City of Camrose and the University of Alberta , the $24-million centre includes seating for 580 people in the theatre proper.
Ironworks , and Canam Group were all involved in bringing the 44,200-square-foot theatre into reality.
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