We are proud and excited to announce that another one of our prized projects, Abbotsford Collegiate School, has been certified LEED Gold.
On this project, we were the Sustainability Consultant, LEED Energy Modeller and BC Hydro Energy Modeller. This beautiful building had a $35M budget and was completed in 2013 for School District No.34
Click here to find out more about this project in details and to find more photos.
On May 19, 2016, Our CEO Eesmyal was pleased to be a co-facilitator with Sara Blenkhorn at the B-Corp BLD UnConference!
An unconference is an event at a conference where the participants create the content. At this year’s B Corp Unconference, participants pitched their ideas in 90 seconds or less, the top ideas of which were discussed and elaborated on in break-out groups and reported back to the larger group at the end. Unconferences are a great way of acknowledging the knowledge base and expertise that exists among the conference attendees.
We are pleased to announce that the CaGBC will be hosting a networking event on the Penthouse roof of the Manulife Building at 980 Howe at 5:45pm on June 16th
We’ve are proud to have been a part of the project team and are looking forward to certifying this building at a LEED Gold level.
Here are the event details on the CaGBC website.
Hope to see you all there!
We’re happy to announce a radical new employment program for parrots!
Here’s a copy of the news article from CBC:
In an effort to streamline LEED project management, local green building leader Recollective hired big data giant Palintir to analyze the company to look for efficiencies. At the CBC studio in downtown Vancouver last Wednesday, Recollective CEO Eesmyal Santos-Brault explains to reporters the Palintir insights that led to the remarkable staff resources shift. “You know”, Eesmyal explains, “green building consulting is very technical and requires highly skilled staff. But when you add the documentation intensive green building rating system LEED into the picture, things change. According to the petabytes of Recollective data analyzed by Palintir, 63.7% of the time expended by staff on LEED projects can be summed up into the following singular request: ‘Give me your LEED documentation’. I was surprised and disturbed by Palintir’s conclusions”, says Eesmyal. What he did next with these results shocked the world. “I’ve always been an animal lover”, Eesmyal told reporters with a tear welling in his eye, “so giving an opportunity for gainful employment to animals just made sense to me. It took only one day to train the parrots to recite the LEED incantation, and since then we’ve seen a 57% improvement in employee satisfaction, as their time is now unlocked to become more effective green building strategists.”
Huge congratulations are in order for the entire project team for both the Okanagan College Centre of Excellence Building and MEC’s office, 2 of our project win Gold in the 2016 Green Buildings Review. We are very proud and excited.
Check out the Corporate Knights article here. Jim Pattison Centre of Excellence, Okanagan College wins under the category of University and College Buildings, where the MEC Head Office gains first place for Office Buildings.
We are pleased to announce that our Director of LEED Services, Jason Packer, is teaching a course at UBC once again, this time for LEED Version 4!
Increase your understanding of LEED with this in-depth, 36-hour review of the LEED Building Design and Construction rating system. This course includes both the current version of LEED, LEED 2009 and the version that will become standard in October 2016, LEED v4. The course includes green building tours. It helps building professionals develop their technical proficiency in the latest standard, supporting those planning to write the LEED Accredited Professional Exam with the Building Design + Construction Specialty. In addition, current LEED APs receive all of the continuing education requirements needed to update to the LEED AP BD+C credential.
Want to sign up for the course? Click here for more details or registration.
