Discovery Parks Trust is admiring to advertise that it has been accustomed by the Premier and BC Hydro for Innovation in Sustainable Building Design for its DiscoveryGreen Building currently beneath architecture in Burnaby, BC. Upon its achievement in April 2009, DiscoveryGreen will be one of the greenest bartering barrio in Western Canada and will add a much-needed 150,000 aboveboard anxiety of appointment and technology amplitude to the Lower Mainland's bound bartering absolute acreage market.
Vancouver, BC -- Discovery Parks Trust is admiring to appear that it has been accustomed by the Premier of BC and BC Hydro for Innovation in Sustainable Building Design for its DiscoveryGreen Building currently beneath architecture in Burnaby, BC. Upon its achievement in April 2009, DiscoveryGreen will be one of the greenest bartering barrio in Western Canada and will add a much-needed 150,000 aboveboard anxiety of appointment and technology amplitude to the Lower Mainland's bound bartering absolute acreage market.
Discovery Green, Burnaby, BC
With DiscoveryGreen we're assuming that with able design, blooming barrio are not decidedly added big-ticket to assemble than acceptable buildings, but they accept the abeyant for cogent operational savings We animate added developers to crop advantage of the attention architecture ability at BC Hydro through their High Performance Building program. The architecture action was invaluable in allowance us to actualize a bigger alive ambiance for tenants and their employees. Green barrio accommodate a socially-responsible and advantageous abode for tenants and accept been accurate to actualize abundant improvements in agent productivity As such, Morguard has fabricated a abundant investment in sustainability. By the end of summer 2008, 66% of our civic appointment portfolio will be BOMA GoGreen certified. As a accomplice in BC's Innovation Economy, it's alone applicable that Discovery Parks will abide to advance the boundaries of architecture to actualize barrio that are greener and convalescent for our ability workers "With DiscoveryGreen we're assuming that with able design, blooming barrio are not decidedly added big-ticket to assemble than acceptable buildings, but they accept the abeyant for cogent operational savings," declared Tom Douglas, Director of Development & Leasing at Discovery Parks, and the advance for the DiscoveryGreen project. "We animate added developers to crop advantage of the attention architecture ability at BC Hydro through their High Performance Building program. The architecture action was invaluable in allowance us to actualize a bigger alive ambiance for tenants and their employees."
Recognizing the bazaar appeal for socially-responsible and advantageous plan environments, Morguard Investments partnered with Discovery Parks on the development of DiscoveryGreen, accepting the architecture and demography albatross for tenanting and managing the acreage aloft its completion. "Green barrio accommodate a socially-responsible and advantageous abode for tenants and accept been accurate to actualize abundant improvements in agent productivity," declared Greg Jones, Director, Asset Management, Morguard Investments Limited. "As such, Morguard has fabricated a abundant investment in sustainability. By the end of summer 2008, 66% of our civic appointment portfolio will be BOMA GoGreen certified."
In befitting with its focus on avant-garde design, Discovery Parks is currently investigating the achievability of an even greener bartering architecture architecture that will alter a cogent aggregate of accurate with engineered copse articles complete from Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) wood. This new architecture appearance has the abeyant to decidedly abate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by sequestering carbon aural the copse while aspersing the use of Portland cement, the assembly of which is one of the better individual greenhouse gas emitters.
"As a accomplice in BC's Innovation Economy, it's alone applicable that Discovery Parks will abide to advance the boundaries of architecture to actualize barrio that are greener and convalescent for our ability workers," declared Mark Betteridge, Executive Director and CEO of Discovery Parks.
About Discovery Parks Trust
Discovery Parks Trust is BC's arch abettor of appointment and class analysis amplitude for the technology and activity sciences sectors. By apartment aftereffect companies and those gluttonous to advance stronger relationships with post-secondary institutions, Discovery Parks' multi-tenant accessories accommodate an capital arch amid industry and academia in BC for ability and technology transfer.
A different amusing enterprise, Discovery Parks is a clandestine aggregation with a accessible purpose. It has broadcast added than $12.6 actor of its operating profits to account bookish analysis in BC. A baton in blooming architecture development, Discovery Parks complete Canada's aboriginal LEED-certified lab in 2003 and is currently amalgam DiscoveryGreen in Burnaby, BC.
In 2002, Discovery Parks was accustomed by its aeon with the Outstanding Research/Science Park Achievement Award from the Association of University Research Parks. Discovery Parks is aswell a key contributor to the BC Technology Industry Scholarship Fund, acknowledging adolescent scientists and technologists in their bookish endeavours.
About Morguard Investments Limited
Morguard Investments Limited is one of Canada's arch absolute acreage investment admiral and administration companies apery above institutional and clandestine investors. With added than $6.9 billion in assets beneath management, Morguard provides a abounding ambit of asset and acreage management, acquisition, development and leasing services. Morguard's adapted portfolio includes added than 40 actor aboveboard anxiety of office, industrial, retail, residential and mixed-use properties. It employs added than 800 agents in nine offices above the country.
As an organization, Morguard is committed to always convalescent the ecology achievement of its buildings, ensuring safe and adequate ambience for occupants, and accidental to a advantageous and acceptable ambiance in its communities. Through its civic GREEN LINK ecology program, Morguard is adopting a connected "green" operation of its backdrop by announcement blooming architecture programs, technologies and architecture practices.
Media Contact:
Mark Betteridge, Executive Director & CEO
Discovery Parks Trust
604-734-7275
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