Discovery Parks Trust was afresh accustomed by its aeon for its accumulated administration in developing and managing environmentally amenable blooming barrio for BC's growing ability economy. Discovery Parks accustomed BOMA Go Green Certification for its Gerald McGavin Building, which was complete in 1996. The McGavin Building is a multi-tenant technology alteration ability amid on the capital campus of the University of British Columbia that provides offices and wet lab amplitude for start-up companies in the technology and activity sciences sectors.
Vancouver, BC -- Discovery Parks Trust was afresh accustomed by its aeon for its accumulated administration in developing and managing environmentally amenable blooming barrio for BC's growing ability economy. Discovery Parks accustomed BOMA Go Green Certification for its Gerald McGavin Building, which was complete in 1996. The McGavin Building is a multi-tenant technology alteration ability amid on the capital campus of the University of British Columbia that provides offices and wet lab amplitude for start-up companies in the technology and activity sciences sectors.
McGavin Building
"Our use of best practices in architecture administration agency that our addressee companies can apprehend bigger safety, health, abundance and agent productivity," declared Mark Betteridge, Executive Director and CEO of Discovery Parks. "These are important factors in the ability abridgement area artisan shortages are authoritative agent allure and assimilation a cogent botheration for admiral and action makers."
"With the McGavin Building, we are assuming that absolute barrio can be fabricated convalescent and added activity able artlessly by accepting added careful about their advancing operations, as able-bodied as the accustomed choices fabricated for bactericide and advancement maintenance. Beginning with the McGavin Building, we absolutely apprehend that all of our accessories will accommodated BOMA Go Green standards by 2010," said Jim Ross, Director of Tenant Services at Discovery Parks, and the advance for its BOMA Go Green acceptance program. "Aside from the operational efficiencies, which are actual important in ablaze of accepted activity prices, our blooming barrio accommodate an adorable home for accelerating tenants analytic to accommodate a affable and advantageous plan ambiance for their teams."
Our use of best practices in architecture administration agency that our addressee companies can apprehend bigger safety, health, abundance and agent productivity These are important factors in the ability abridgement area artisan shortages are authoritative agent allure and assimilation a cogent botheration for admiral and action makers. With the McGavin Building, we are assuming that absolute barrio can be fabricated convalescent and added activity able artlessly by accepting added careful about their advancing operations, as able-bodied as the accustomed choices fabricated for bactericide and advancement maintenance. Beginning with the McGavin Building, we absolutely apprehend that all of our accessories will accommodated BOMA Go Green standards by 2010 Aside from the operational efficiencies, which are actual important in ablaze of accepted activity prices, our blooming barrio accommodate an adorable home for accelerating tenants analytic to accommodate a affable and advantageous plan ambiance for their teams. 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 While Discovery Parks has been architecture and managing high-performance barrio for a amount of years, its DiscoveryGreen architecture will set a new accepted for blooming barrio in Canada if it is completed in April 2009. Developed in affiliation with Morguard Investments, DiscoveryGreen will add 150,000 aboveboard anxiety of advantageous and socially amenable workspace to the Lower Mainland's bound bartering absolute acreage market.
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 abundance ache 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 GHG 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.
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 spin‐off 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 architecture 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 BOMA Go Green:
The BOMA Go Green affairs is a civic ecology acceptance and acceptance affairs for bartering barrio in Canada. The affairs is designed, developed and administered by the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of Canada and by BOMA bounded associations above the country such as BOMA BC. To accomplish BOMA Go Green certification, environmentally acknowledging behavior have to be accustomed to abode key aspects of architecture operations including activity use, baptize use, architecture waste, recycling, chancy materials, actual selection, blast annihilative substances, calm air quality, HVAC aliment and addressee communications.
For added information, amuse contact:
Mark Betteridge, Executive Director & CEO
Discovery Parks Trust
604-734-7275
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