The Globe and Mail
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Toronto’s new Waterfront Innovation Centre is about to become a new hive of activity down by Lake Ontario.
The 475,000-square-foot complex will be one of the first developments in Canada to receive a new LEED 4.1 certification, the most up-to-date standard architects use to designate a project as environmentally friendly. (While the centre is Canada’s first LEED 4.1 building, in 2021, Canada certified 205 projects of LEED space at earlier standards, representing more than 3.2 million gross square metres of space.)
“We use grey water for plumbing and irrigation, we use lighting sensors [which turn lights on and off when people are there], solar panels that supply some of the building’s energy, a green roof and EnWave’s district cooling and heating system that uses lake water,” Mr. Menkes says.
Many of the approximately 2,000 people expected to work in the area will likely also live there, says Mr. Menkes, adding that easy access to public transit, along with ample bike and walk paths, will make getting in and around the area convenient.
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