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Looking at The Taylor, Tricon Residential’s 37-storey multi-use purpose-built rental building in downtown Toronto, you’d never know it was different from others of its type — unless you had a sky-high vantage point to check out its mechanical penthouse, that is.
The penthouse is quite a bit smaller than one would expect for a building of its size, housing only some pumps and other air handling equipment, but missing the chiller that would normally be used to provide cool air on hot summer days and nights. That’s because The Taylor is cooled not through normal air conditioning but through a revolutionary system from Enwave that uses cold water from nearby Lake Ontario.
The innovative system involves district-energy operator Enwave sharing infrastructure with the City of Toronto’s water utility, providing comfort to residents while also cutting cooling- related electricity use by as much as 80 per cent — performance that will help the city and its Climate Action Strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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