Implementing Brownfields Lisa Prime Director Environment and Innovation
Jun 10, 2015
Implementing Brownfields
Lisa Prime Director Environment and Innovation
We’re engaged in one of the most significant city building projects in the world.
Our business model
Master planner and developer
Creating quality of place
Responsible revitalization
Innovative Integrated Systems
Design Excellence
Green Buildings
Sustainable Transport
Intelligent Communities
Parks and Habitat
Creation
Infrastructure
Moving Beyond Principles to Performance
Minimum Green Building Requirements and Tracking System Version 1 2006, Version 2 February 2014 Minimum performance measures for development: energy, water, waste, transportation, materials, design + progress tracking including soil management plan activities for contaminated soils
• LEED Gold certified buildings
• building targeting LEED Gold certification awaiting review with the Canada Green Building Council
• buildings under construction targeting LEED Gold certification
• buildings under design targeting LEED Gold certification
LEED certified buildings
2
1
10
4
Waste Diversion
65
89
97
97
99
100
West Don Lands
George Brown College
York Quay
Sherbourne Common
Queen's Quay
Bayside
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Revitalizing brownfields
• 40,000$new$residences,$$• 40,000$new$jobs,$and$$• 300$hectares$of$public$parks$
Land risk assessed,
43.5
Land assessed but not yet
implemented 17.3$
Land not yet assessed,
9.8$
Land assessed and met property specific
standards (remediation
not required),
Brownfield approvals (ha)
Soil Recycling Facility Established in July 2010 Use technology to treat contaminated soil and turn it in to a resource
Cost Benefit Analysis Completed
Technology Research Sharing, others such as Kingston, Cambridge Model for brownfields stakeholders
Building future-ready infrastructure
The Port Lands
Port Lands Future Communities
Lisa Prime Director Environment and Innovation
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