LEED Platinum / News

...LEED® Platinum. From the beginning to the end of this undertaking, hundreds of people donated their time and energy: an enthusiastic coordinator, committed teachers, apprentice carpenters and their school board, a sustainable-housing training organization, a philanthropic builder, generous sponsors, anonymous donors, s...

...LEED certification (Platinum), and finally - give it to a family in need through the charity Habitat for Humanity. If all that wasn't challenging enough, add to it the fact that Quebec union laws prevent students from working on an actual construction site. Therefore, it had to be prefabricated at the school in a modul...

...LEED Platinum certification recently for the Penticton building from the Canada Green Building Council. (LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. It is globally recognized as a means of assessing green building practices and outcomes. Platinum is the highest LEED certification that can be achieved...

The 19,000 square foot VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre creates a harmonious balance between architecture and landscape from a visual and ecological perspective. Inspired by the organic forms and natural systems of a native orchid, the building is organized into undulating green roof ‘petals’ that float above c...