Corix Utilities operator, Terry Balak, stands in front of Canada's first Nexterra gasification system located at Dockside Green Energy Biomass Facility in Victoria.
The Globe and Mail - November 22, 2011
By David Ebner
Several times a week, a truck rolls up to a non-descript sheet metal-clad industrial building on Victoria’s upper harbour. The trucks dump loads of small chunks of wood, waste that has been reclaimed from construction sites in the region and acquired from a nearby recycling facility.
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Posted in Sustainability, Media Articles on November 23, 2011| Tags renewable energy, biomass, corix, nexterra, district energy, fossil fuel
Victoria News - November 2, 2011
By Roszan Holman
Starting at 8:15 a.m. in the covered courtyard of Vic West elementary school, kids spread jam on toast or cheese on bagels.
Some warmly-dressed parents operate the toaster and hand out yogurt.
This is the new breakfast program, launched Oct. 4, thanks to a donation from HMCS Vancouver.
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Posted in Media Articles on November 07, 2011
October 10, 2011 by Emma Stratford
Opportunity Green
The earth, like a teenager, is mostly covered in oil, grease and noxious pustules. Occassionally though, you can see a small sign of hope for the future in a clean, vigorous area, glowing with health. In the teenager it's generally where the acne medication has taken hold, but on the Earth it's those places where eco-friendly attitudes, words and thoughts have been put into practice.
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Posted in Sustainability on October 11, 2011| Tags leed, Bear Creek Dome, climate, Dockside Green, Eco Label, Eco-friendly, ecosystem, Energy efficiency, Geodesic domes, Gyreum Eco Lodge, Iceland, International Renewable Energy Agency, Masdar City, renewable energy, Sustainability, Tripbase Travel
October 4, 2011
Stepping down as chair of the World Green Building Council Tony Arnel said he had seen a fringe green movement become a mainstream industry during his three year term. He is replaced by Rick Fedrizzi, president and chief executive officer of the US Green Building Council.
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Posted in Sustainability, Media Articles on October 06, 2011| Tags USGBC, WGBC, Fedrizzi
Kelly O'Brien, Operations Manager at Dockside Green, shows off the display of the development's environmental control system that affords residents the chance to monitor their electricity usage and carbon footprint.
By Andrew A. Duffy, Times Colonist June 26, 2011
It wasn't the small, wall-mounted display panel that sold Taylor Kennedy on moving into Dockside Green, but the digital meter by the door certainly played its part.
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Posted in Media Articles on June 27, 2011| Tags reliable controls, houle, smart panel, carbon footprint, consumption
The second phase of the Dockside Green project in Victoria, British Columbia, recently received a high-scoring LEED Platinum certification from the Canada Green Building Council. Known as Balance, this part of the development comprises 171 residential units in two adjacent towers. It earned a LEED score of 63 points out of a possible 70, matching the score of Dockside Green's first phase, Synergy (featured in ArchitectureWeek No. 401).
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Posted in Media Articles on March 01, 2011| Tags architecture, leed, busby
Victoria, BC, Canada – Dockside Green, a mixed-use residential and commercial real estate development in Victoria, British Columbia has received its second residential LEED Platinum ranking through the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) – this time for the two towers known as Balance.
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Posted in Sustainability, Press Releases on February 24, 2011