11 Greenest Buildings in Vancouver

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With the goals of being the Greenest City by 2020, Vancouver’s doing a lot to get there. These buildings are examples of the hard work happening in the city to make it more sustainable.

• BC Cancer Agency Research Centre

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  The BC Cancer Agency’s Research Centre is the 1st research facility in Canada to achieve a LEED Gold rating. This was through heat recovery, natural lighting, material conservation & waste management.

• UBC’s Life Sciences Centre

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  This awesome green building had 80% of the construction waste recycled or recouped and was the largest LEED Gold certified building in BC during the time of its construction.

• City of Vancouver National Works Yard

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  These two buildings are the first administration buildings in Canada to receive LEED Gold Certification from the Canada Green Building Council.

• Cypress Lodge Coquitlam

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  Cypress Lodge is located on the Riverview Hospital grounds and was built to LEED standards to ensure the least impact on the surrounding environment.

• White Rock Operations Building

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  This Building achieved a Gold LEED certification upon completion. 99% of the materials from the old building were recycled preventing almost half a million tonnes of waste from going to landfill.

• Kwantlen Chip and Shannon Wilson School of Design

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  Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) is in the process of designing & constructing a 5-storey, LEED Gold building. This purpose-built facility will house the Chip and Shannon Wilson School of Design.

• Telus Garden

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  Telus Garden is targeting LEED Platinum & Gold certification. The development will feature its own energy district utility plant that will recover heat from the existing TELUS building on site.

• UBC’s Earth Sciences Building

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  Constructed to LEED Gold standards, the building uses over 1,300 tons of BC CLT. Each ton of dry wood products sequesters sufficient carbon to keep between 1.8 & 2.0 tons of CO2 from being formed.

• Vancouver Convention Centre

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  This beautiful building was the first convention centre in the world to receive LEED platinum certification. Favourite part? The living roof.

• Van Dusen Gardens Visitor Centre

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  This green building was built to LEED Platinum standards. It harvests rainwater to flush toilets, transfers heat into floors, naturally ventilates itself in summer, treats its own sewage & more.

• UBC’s CIRS Building

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  The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability has been awarded LEED Platinum certification, the highest designation in green building performance from the LEED rating system + the 1st for UBC.