CLIENTS
BC Housing Authority
Fairbank Architects

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

DESCRIPTION
This was our civil site servicing design for a LEED Gold institutional renovation, to convert an existing senior’s residential care facility to assisted living units. Since the Government of British Columbia requires all of its building projects to achieve a LEED Gold rating, designing necessary repair and upgrades to the site’s servicing provided a great opportunity for ecological engineering to maximize LEED credits.

SERVICES RENDERED
Our engineered retrofits for the project included sustainable site measures such as: on-lot stormwater collection and disposal, with self-irrigating landscape swales and wheelchair accessible garden beds, reuse of cracked paving into a crushed permeable parking area, reducing the parking lot heat island effect by reducing driving surface area and adding plantings. These and other measures provided both environmental benefits and significant reductions in project capital cost and long-term maintenance.

We created infographic drawing sheets to communicate inspection results, site servicing design, and recommended LEED credit optimization measures to the architect client.

• Civil municipal LEED credit optimisation
• Sustainable site design
• Integrated stormwater management
• Greenspace design
• Infographic reporting