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HONORABLE MENTION
A Grander View, Edmonton, AB, Canada
COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, NEW

Designer: Stephen C. Carpenter
Owner: Stephen C. Carpenter, Enermodal Engineering Ltd.

A Grander View in Edmonton, AB, Canada, houses Canada’s
largest building consulting firm. They achieved an ENERGY STAR
rating of 100 and received LEED Platinum certifications in the
NC, CI, and EB:O&M rating systems in 2011, a Canadian first.
Brentwood Net Zero Affordable Housing Project, Edmonton, AB, Canada
RESIDENTIAL (SINGLE AND MULTIFAMILY), NEW

Designer: Scott D. Koehn, Vital Engineering Corporation
Owner: Reg Appleyard, Brentwood Family Housing Society

The 29-suite Brentwood apartment complex in Edmonton, AB,
Canada, uses a combination of geothermal and solar hot water. It also has a well insulated, air-tight envelope, and large
triple-glazed south facing windows. A first of its kind in Canada, the project is equipped with a grid-tied solar PV system,
which offsets yearly energy use.
City College of San Francisco Ocean Campus Academic
Multi-Use Building, San Francisco
EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES, NEW

Designers: Hormoz Janssens, P
.E., Interface Engineering, Rob
Barthelman, AIA, Architecture/VBN, and Peter Pfau, FAIA, Pfau
Long Architecture
Owner: David Liggett, City College of San Francisco

The new 102,000 ft2 (9476 m2) City College of San Francisco
was certified LEED Gold in March 2011. The project included
400, 400 ft (122 m) deep geothermal bores and collection
piping with approximately 750 tons (2638 kW) of heating and
cooling capacity for the campus buildings.
High Purity Standards Renovation, Charleston, S.C.
INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES OR PROCESSES, EXISTING

Designers: Robert F. Turner, Dennis Ashley, Johnny Deden, and
Carson Smith, Charleston Engineering
Owner: Connie Hayes, High Purity Standards

High Purity Standards (HPS), a chemistry lab in Charleston, S.C.,
has a “sash management” design for its 14 lab hoods, promoting efficient scheduling of lab hood use.
McGill University—McIntyre Pavilion, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada
EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES, EXISTING

Designers: Laurier Nichols and Yves Laroches, Dessau
Owner: Robert Stanley, McGill University

McIntyre Pavilion is a cutting edge medical research and teaching facility at McGill University in Montreal. The 50-year-old,
16-story, 2,787 ft2 (30 000 m2) building, badly in need of
renovation, has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 4,670
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tons per year. Energy savings is more than $700,000 per year,
with an ROI on installed energy recovery systems in approximately three years.
Eco Commercial Building, Greater Noida, India
COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, NEW

Designers: Prem C. Jain, Saurabh Goel, Amit Goel, and Varun
Potbhare, Spectral—An AECOM Company
Owner: Debajit Baruah, Bayer Material Science Private Limited

The 9,600 ft2 (892 m2) Eco Commercial Building (ECB), Noida, India, is the first net positive energy building in India,
achieving 100% on-site energy generation using a 57 kW
PV system. ECB is a LEED Platinum certified project, and
achieved 64 out of 69 credits for LEED India new construction v2.2.
Fault Detection and Diagnosis for VAV in Cambridge
House, Hong Kong
COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, EXISTING

Designers: Youming Chen, Cary W.H. Chan, and Haitao Wang,
Hunan University
Owner: Cary W.H. Chan, Swire Properties Ltd.

A fault diagnosis tool was developed for the Cambridge House,
Hong Kong, VAV terminals. The tool has improved comfort and
service quality and reduced maintenance costs. CO2 emissions
were reduced by 149 tons per year.
The Village on False Creek, Vancouver, BC, Canada
RESIDENTIAL (SINGLE AND MULTIFAMILY), NEW

Designer: Goran Ostojic, SK Lai, P
.Eng, Vladimir Mikler, P
.Eng.,
and Albert Bicol, P
.Eng, Cobalt Engineering LLP
Owner: Ernst & Young, Vancouver, BC

The Village on False Creek was the 2010 Olympics athletes’
village in Vancouver. The 1.5 million ft2 (92 900 m2) mixed
use development was part of a larger plan for the area to
revitalize the historic industrial lands. Sewer heat recovery,
provided by the neighborhood energy utility, supplies approximately 70% of the heat to the future Southeast False
Creek community.
Verizon Wireless – Twinsburg Data Center, Twinsburg, Ohio
INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES OR PROCESSES, NEW

Designers: Patrick W. Klanac, Dave Tschantz, Matt Sejba, and
Chad Beery, Peters, Tschantz & Associates, Inc.
Owner: John Toner, Verizon Wireless

The Verizon Wireless Twinsburg Data Center in Twinsburg,
Ohio, uses transformers that were sized and selected for energy efficiency, eliminating 116 tons of carbon emissions per
year. The building layout also eliminates the need for chilled
water piping in the electrical rooms, as well as minimizing
the need for piping beneath the raised floor of the computer
room.
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