Commercial/Industrial (Large) Award

Endress + Hauser Customer Experience Centre – Burlington, ON

Jury Comment: “This project is notable for setting and pursuing high environmental performance goals: achieving net Zero Carbon and awaiting confirmation of LEED Gold certification. The interior addresses the health and wellbeing of employees through its socially focused program organization and brightly lit interior spaces. The positive response has catalyzed broader changes at its parent company in Switzerland.”

The ZCB Certified, LEED Gold pending Endress+Hauser Customer Experience Centre in Burlington was designed as a gift for its employees from the Swiss-owned company. The 4400 sq. m, $24 million environment is a sunlit, open concept space, uniquely tailored for the employees and engaging for visitors who have come to experience its Process Training Unit (PTU) and calibration labs.

The glass enclosed PTU is prominently positioned at the southeast corner, acting as the public face of the building; and offering educational engagement with the leading-edge equipment and systems it contains. The ground floor is home to a program of training spaces, calibration lab, and private employee wellness areas. The second level, accessible by a central stair, is organized into neighbourhoods around an atrium and indoor walking track. The open working environments are each slightly different based on their particular functions. The facility is punctuated with coffee nooks and seating areas to promote impromptu exchanges and casual meetings.

A large exterior patio extends along the southern façade of the second storey, with direct connections to the employee kitchen, office workstations and breakout space. Fitness centres, and exterior walking tracks, compliment the organizational focus on health and wellness.

At the outset of this project, it was clear sustainable leadership was central to the company’s culture and identity. The design team pitched a business case, offering Endress + Hauser a way to exceed its standard commitment to LEED Silver certification.

Project Credits

Owner/Developer Endress + Hauser
Architect McCallum Sather
General Contractor G.S. Wark Construction
Landscape Architect GSP Group
Civil Engineer MTE
Electrical and Structural Engineer WSP
Mechanical Engineer McCallum Sather
Commissioning Agent CFMS-West Consulting Inc.
Other Engineering Service RWDI
Photos Philip Castleton

Project Performance

Energy Intensity 73.95 KWhr/m2/year
Reduction in Energy Intensity 26.05% (Based on NECB 2015)
Reduction in Water Consumption 33.2%
Construction materials diverted
from landfill 76.38%

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Pointe-aux-Trembles, QC

Commercial/Industrial (Large) Award

Jury Comment: This project reflects the client’s remarkable commitment to exemplary building performance and the wellbeing of its employees. Low-carbon materials, a large photovoltaic array, and ultra low water consumption are combined with an attractive atrium, gardens and other social spaces.

This project arose from the desire of the plumbers’ union, the United Association – Local 144, to create a new head office and training facility for its members that would be warm, welcoming and at the same time, achieve the highest possible performance goals across a range of sustainable design criteria.

Located on an infill site in an industrial area at the east end of the Island of Montreal, the project offered both urban improvement and economic opportunities; restoring a former wasteland area and providing training facilities for local trades.

From the outset, the aim was to achieve LEED v4 Platinum certification (a first for an industrial building in Canada), with specific performance objectives including: an 80% reduction in energy consumption, to be achieved in part by the installation of a 430-panel rooftop photovoltaic array; a reduction of 80% in potable water consumption; a partial wood structure to minimize embodied energy; passive design strategies to harvest daylight; and natural displacement ventilation for energy efficiency and occupant comfort.

The program is divided into two distinct pavilions joined by a footbridge. The differences in major occupancy, together with the required spans and spatial organization, led to the choice of a steel structure for the training centre and a mass timber structure for the administration building.

The central atrium of the Administrative building. Nordic Structures supplied FSC-certified cross-laminated timber slabs for the floor and roof, and glued-laminated timber posts and beams.

Large areas of translucent insulated panels by Kalwall on the south wall provide daylight to the workshop spaces and classrooms while maintaining a high-performance building envelope.

The heat for the radiant floors is produced by an optimized combination of geothermal and a Mitsubishi Electric Sales Canada VRF air source heat pump system.

Project Credits

Owner/Developer United Association – Local 144
Architect Blouin Tardif Architectes
General contractor SIMDEV
Landscape Architect Guillaume Henri Hurbain Civil Engineer NCK
Electrical/mechanical engineer Martin & Roy Associés
Structural engineer NCK
LEED consultant WSP
Building envelope REMATEK
Photos Claude Dagenais, twohumans
Project Performance
Energy intensity (building and process energy) = 133 KWhr/m²/year
Energy intensity reduction relative to reference building under ASHRAE 90.1-2010 = 81%
Water consumption from municipal sources = 1,612 litres/occupant/year
Reduction in water consumption relative to reference building under LEED = 81%

Project Performance

Energy intensity (building and process energy) = 133 KWhr/m²/year
Energy intensity reduction relative to reference building under ASHRAE 90.1-2010 = 81%
Water consumption from municipal sources = 1,612 litres/occupant/year
Reduction in water consumption relative to reference building under LEED = 81%

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high performance building

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