Recollective celebrated ten years of being in business on September 1st, 2016 and we are excited to announce our Ten Year party on October 14th, and you are all invited!
We are heading to the beautiful Beaumont Studios on Friday, October 14th from 5:30pm until late. We hope to see you there! RSVP here
We are pleased to announce that our Director of LEED Services, Jason Packer, is teaching a course at UBC, this one includes a Building Tour!
The time has come to get well-versed in LEED V4 as this becomes the new LEED standard on October 31st 2016. It will be here before you know it! Plus, Jason really knows what he’s talking about – he’s been teaching students about the various LEED standards for five years and has been working in sustainability for almost 20 years. He’s well connected in the industry, very knowledgeable, has a fantastic sense of humour so this course is sure to exceed your expectations. Learn more about Jason here.
Please see the description below from the CaGBC website as well as a link to register. We look forward to seeing you there!
Questions about the course or LEED V4 in general? Feel free to give us a call or email us at: info@recollective.ca
Vancouver, September 27, 2016, Register Now
As a movement and an industry, green building is evolving rapidly. LEED users can register projects under the LEED 2009 rating system until October 31, 2016, after which projects will be registered under LEED v4. Join us to learn about the key changes you can expect with LEED v4 in this Introduction to the LEED v4 Rating Systems half day in-class course. Participants will gain a foundational grasp of the major changes between LEED 2009 and LEED v4 and explore its impact on Canadians. They will learn how projects can ultimately benefit from the Canadian Alternative Compliance Paths that are currently under development.
Bonus Building Tour: As part of this course, you will also get an exclusive tour of CaGBC’s new Vancouver office which is targeting LEED v4 for Commercial Interiors Gold (with a stretch target of Platinum). Join our tour guide as you walk through the project to gain a foundational grasp of the major changes in LEED v4 and witness its impacts first hand.
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.”
