2012 Green Building Festival: New Codes, Better Buildings

October 11 & 12: Evergreen Brick Works

Our Sustainability Project Manager, Adam, will be a featured speaker at this year’s Green Building Festival. Since 2005, the Green Building Festival has been Canada’s most comprehensive annual conference on green building design, operations, technologies, and behaviours. The 2012 Green Building Festival focuses on more than just showcasing good design – it’s about enabling the building industry to measurably improve the performance of the built environment.

Don’t miss this outstanding opportunity to learn from industry experts about the new Ontario Building Code and the move from prescriptive to performance-based standards. You’ll leave with practical tools to help you understand, meet, and exceed the new SB-10 energy efficiency requirements.

Presentations will include:

• Keynote addresses by recognized sustainable building experts
• Jason F. McLennan, International Living Future Institute (Living Building Challenge)
• Edward Mazria, Architecture 2030 (The 2030 Challenge)
• Informative plenary sessions
• Training workshops
• Interactive discussions
• Awards Reception

The 2012 Green Building Festival is hosted by Sustainable Buildings Canada – enabling the building industry to measurably improve the performance of the built environment.

For more information, including registration details, please visit their website http://www.sbcanada.org/gbfestival/

LEED Certified Projects

Provident Energy’s sustainability consulting department is pleased to announce that it has assisted its new construction clients in achieving final LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification for several projects.

The following projects achieved final recognition of LEED Certification by the Canada Green Building Council in early 2012:

Condominiums: Tridel's Republic A (LEED Gold) and Tridel's Republic B (LEED Gold)

North Toronto Collegiate Institute (LEED Gold)

GO Transit Halton Facility (LEED Gold)

GO Transit Brampton Facility (LEED Gold)

Habitat for Humanity Toronto New Head Office (LEED Silver)

We Are Hiring!

The holidays are just around the corner but we are keeping very busy and we're looking for a few people to join the Provident Energy team!

Energy Management Systems Technician - 1 position available.

Billing Administrators - 2 positions available.

Sustainable Building/LEED Professionals - 3 positions available.

For more details, including job descriptions and how to apply, please visit our career section.

Warden Hilltop Community Centre

Provident Energy was the LEED/sustainable design consultant for the new City of Toronto Ward 35: Warden Hilltop Community Centre. We were on hand at the grand opening to provide area residents with information on the centre’s various green features. The LEED target community centre has geothermal heating, water efficiency technology, solar panels, daylight harvesting, and a green roof.

Project: Warden Hilltop Community Centre

Description: 24,000 sq ft community centre, LEED Target

Client: CS&P Architects, City of Toronto

Services Provided: LEED Project Management, Energy Modelling, Measurement & Verification

More information can be found on the City of Toronto website.