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COVER STORY: 2050 PARIS SMART CITY For a Sustainable, Dense and Connected City

14 FEATURE STORY: BALANCE BUILDING GROUP Upscale builder combines high-end reputation with green acumen 19 SPECIAL FEATURE: KINGSHORE Windows & Doors known for high-quality products and top-notch service 23

27 FEATURE STORY: THE SEARCH IS ON LJM Developments constantly looks to incorporate green living into their projects 31 REINVENTING PARIS Planning Korea tackles sustainable challenge and chips in with futuristic egg-shaped pods 34 BUILDING ON A TIME-TESTED GREEN REPUTATION RND Construction a pioneer in providing a deep-rooted commitment to sustainable development

36 Latest green strategies on display at GEN-PRO’s new office building A QUANTUM LEAP INTO THE FUTURE WITH VIRTUAL TRADE SHOWS FOR GREEN BUILDING INDUSTRY IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE 38 GROUND-BREAKING IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE Green Building & Sustainable Strategies magazine at the forefront, GeoSource Energy has been riding the geothermal wave launching exciting, new initiative for over a decade

I hope all is well. We have an exciting new initiative in the works that I think could be very interesting and cost-efficient for your company. What we have planned is an affordable way for you to engage all of North America in the latest green building endeavours. Utilizing cutting-edge virtual trade show technology, we are pleased to announce Brightest! Greenest! Buildings NORTH AMERICA. This first-ofits-kind show will be held in “cyberspace” February 17-18, 2016. Our international team has been organized to promote the greenest building projects and associated solutions across North America. Brightest! Greenest! Buildings NORTH AMERICA is budgetfriendly for participating exhibitors and free for attendees. Our coverage area is the entire North American continent and eliminates travel time and the associated carbon emissions. Based on our current partnerships and future projections, we believe we can attract widespread media coverage and easily reach a target audience of between 5,000 to 10,000 quality attendees over the course of the show. For information about the event and organizing team, go to http://www.brightestgreenestbuildings. eu/. You will also find details about the promotional

plan and highlights from a similar event held in Europe last year. A second European fair, by the way, is scheduled for June 10-11, 2015. If you’re looking for information about exhibitor booth features, go to the website and check under the ‘Why Exhibit’ section. Exhibitors can configure their virtual booths in about two hours, using instructional guidelines from the promotional material. I take great pleasure in inviting you to take a demonstration tour with our team, where you will be guided through the virtual trade fair platform to see how it works. I am confident you will find this relevant and worthwhile for your marketing needs. I look forward to continuing the discussion at your earliest convenience. For starters, feel free to watch an introductory video at http://www.brightestgreenestbuildings.eu/.

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5. HONEYCOMB TOWERS: PERIPHERAL PARIS - 20th district, PORTE DES LILAS A hive of honeycomb housing energetically connected.

2. ANTISMOG TOWERS: HISTORIC PARIS - 14th district PETITE CEINTURE An ecologic corridor of 23 km in the heart of Paris punctuated by depolluting photo-catalytic towers.

6. FARMSCRAPERS TOWERS: PERIPHERAL PARIS - 19th district, PORTE D’AUBERVILLIERS A vertical farm repatriating the countryside in the heart of the city.

3. PHOTOSYNTHESIS TOWERS: MODERN PARIS - 15th district, MONTPARNASSE TOWER A piezo-electrical and Central Park built in vertical spiral with organic facades of green algae.

7. MANGROVE TOWERS: FUTURE PARIS - 10th district, GARE DU NORD Photosensitive towers ingrained on the piezo-electrical station platforms.

4. BAMBOO NEST TOWERS: MODERN PARIS - 13th district, MASSENA AREA Thermodynamic garden towers planted by food gardens and orchards on balconies.

8. BRIDGE TOWERS: FUTURE PARIS -16th district, PONT AVAL / 12th district, PONT AMONT Inhabited planted amphibian bridges across the Seine river upstream and downstream of Paris.

2050 PARIS SMART CITY For a Sustainable, Dense and Connected City

ollowing the Climate Energy Plan of Paris aimed at reducing 75 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the 2050 Paris Smart City project is a research and development project about the integration of highrise buildings with energy-plus houses, working together to produce all the energy for the area. In order to fight against the urban heat-island phenomenon, this study presents eight prototypes of mixed towers. These towers repatriate the natural state in the heart of the city and conform to the rules of bioclimatism – the use of natural energy without conversion into another form of energy. There are

1. MOUNTAIN TOWERS: HISTORIC PARIS -1st district, RUE DE RIVOLI Solar, hydrodynamic and planted towers bio-air conditioning the urban heat-island phenomenon.

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then renewable and recyclable energies in a short loop through innovative systems. Attuned to social innovations, they create new eco-responsible ways to provide a better quality of life for the city-dwellers in respect to the environment. This study was carried out for Paris City Hall by Vincent Cal-lebaut Architectures agency with the engineers of Setec Bâtiment in the summer of 2014. The history and the evolution perspective in 2050 of the high-rise buildings in the context of Paris Climate Energy Plan and the eight plusenergy and/or energetically connected prototypes are presented on the right. SPRING 2015

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Historic Paris - First district rue de Rivoli

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Solar, hydrodynamic and planted towers bio-air conditioning and the urban heat-island phenomenon

An ecological corridor of 23 kilometres in the heart of Paris punctuated by depolluting photocatalytic towers

Paris has always been rebuilt on itself. Because of a lack of political ambition and visions for the future, is it condemned now to remain a museum city or for gentrification? This is the question posed by the Mountain Towers to the historic Paris and, more precisely, to the rue de Rivoli. With its severe elegance and its grandiose neoclassic rigour, the rue de Rivoli, named as the wall-street, crossed the heart of Paris and stretches from east to west on almost three kilometres on the right bank of the Seine River. The urban constraints of the First Empire in the west, same as the Haussmann period in the east, are about the alignment and the size of all the buildings. They lead to Paris’ monumental appearance with strict lines and surprising effect of perspective; the kind that suited Napoleon, who wanted to build

The Petite Ceinture of Paris is an old double railway line that went around Paris inside the Maréchaux boulevards and that had a double interest: linking together the radial lines that leave from the main Parisian railway stations enabling the freight exchanges between the networks and to serve the fortifications of Paris from inside for strategic reasons. Deserted by the Parisians because of the competition of the subway, the line is closed to the traffic of travelers for most of the route. Nowadays, 60 per cent of the line is outside (open trench, in backfill, or viaduct). The remaining 40 per cent are underground, in covered trench or in tunnel. In 2014, there were 61 bridges: 36 are of rail type (where the railway line goes on top of the road) and 25 are of street type (where the road goes on top of the railway line).

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a prestigious street dedicated to luxury. This ‘eternal stretching street that is elegant as an I’ as Victor Hugo used to say, was created in the 18th Century to resolve the traffic jams and the problems with hygiene in the overcrowded old districts by controlling at the same time the popular uprising of the capital city. The model of the rue de Rivoli was extended to all the new Parisian streets leading to a standardization considered by some artists of that time, such as the architect, as stifling monotony. The Mountain Towers project aims to control smog, making denser and naturalizing this type of hyper energy and space consuming urbanism by the construction of bioclimatic mountains integrating the renewable energies on the roofs and in the heart of the blocks. The Mountain Towers with positive energies will

enable this to triple the housing vertically in each Parisian housing block by distributing the structural loads through the old ducts of blocked chimneys. Three types of renewable energies will be available in each tower: During the day, two huge photovoltaic and thermal solar shields inspired by the structure finely cut from dragonfly wings will produce electricity and hot sanitary water. At night, a reversible hydro-electrical pumped storage station will let an urban cascade flow out from the top of the tower between two basins of rainwater retention tanks located at different levels, preventing the need of batteries to store the electricity produced by the solar dragonfly wings. Finally, the garden balconies will surround the inhabited storeys and filter in clean recycled waters rejected by the inhabitants by phyto-purification and bio-composting. SPRING 2015

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On this emblematic and historical place with a controversial destiny, the urban policy is to transform this space into a green ecological corridor by preserving the railway heritage and the triple multi-use of the site between the railways, cycle paths, and walkways. Wildlife, meadows, forests and vegetation are back on the urban land. In this context, the Anti-smog Towers plan to renaturalize the railway lines into green areas by the integration of community food gardens cultivated by the residents. The cycle paths and the urban vegetable gardens will be implemented vertically around the cyclonic towers depolluting the grounds by hydroponic phyto-purification and filtering the atmospheric smog thanks to their photocatalytic structure in titanium dioxide. These depolluting towers will offer a strong

urban density of cultivated housings thanks to their minimal impact in the ground and their architecture in splay. They will be integrated at the geographical crossings between the radial Parisian boulevards and the PC and along the existing ecosystems such as the Buttes Chaumont, the Monsouris Park, the André Citroên Park, etc. Energetically, these towers will produce electricity by the integration of Darrieus axial wind turbines in the strengthened facade and in photovoltaic flexible textile that enable storage of the rainwater and dew on the roof. Regarding the thermal part, the temperature differential with the tunnels of the Petite Ceinture will be used to create geothermal cooling/heating tubes enabling a bio-air condition passively surrounding the air inside the tower. These tunnels will be lighted by piezoelectrical promenades. Green Building & Sustainable Strategies

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A piezo-electrical Central Park built in landscaped spiral shape covered by algae powered Bio-facades

Thermodynamic garden towers wrapped by a bamboo bio-mesh of vertical food gardens and orchards

In 1970, the foundations of Montparnasse Tower were laid on the site of the former Montparnasse railway station. This project was supported by André Malraux, Minister of Culture, and Georges Pompidou, President of the Republic. Inserted in the extension of the axis created by the Palais de Chaillot, the Trocadéro, Eiffel Tower, Champ-de-Mars and the Ecole Militaire parallel to the historical axis, the often denigrated Montparnasse Tower was the highest tower of Europe for more than 20 years until 1990. In 1975, three years after the end of its construction, skyscrapers were no longer allowed because the municipality decided to forbid the construction of building of more than seven floors. The Photosynthesis Towers aims at improving the aesthetic and energy-consuming impacts of

In the spirit of Le Corbusier’s Athens Charter, Italy 13 is the name of the huge urbanism operation carried out in Paris in the Sixties. From this partially implemented operation, there are many towers of the south of the 13th district and especially the Olympiades district and the Massena Area. This innovative urbanism model of towers advocates more than even the saving of the territory and the urban density through the verticality, the multifunctionality and the multiculturalism. It’s the exemplary diversity of the residential offer and the services that led to this diversity, which is rare in buildings of comparable sizes. The Bamboo Nest Towers project aims to renaturalize the 13 towers of the Massena Area built on the grounds of the former Panhard & Levassor plant along the way of the Petite Ceinture.

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the Montparnasse Tower by transforming it into a true vertical Central Park open to the public and by adding new suspended gardens of green algae bioreactors with positive energy. In 2050, Montparnasse Tower would then be a carbon neutral BEPOS ecosystem without fossil fuels built under the shape of a vertical public park on several floors overhung by sky gardens. Bannisters will meander around the reinforced structure and will offer helical piezoelectrical promenades in the sky of Paris in the shape of an almond around the 58 floors. In the triangular openings located at both extremities of the tower, the public elevators with renewable energy will be integrated in order to separate visitors from the staff working in the offices of the tower. The slab roof of the shopping mall will be

transformed into a phyto-purification lagoon recycling the used water of the building. This planted green space in the heart of Paris will cover Montparnasse Tower as well as other smaller towers (building C and Express tower) with an insulating bio-facade that produces biofuel. Green micro algae will be cultivated on curtain-walls in planar and triangular photobioreactors built in laminated glass. They will capture the thermal solar energy and also generate biomass used to produce methane. The CO2 will be used as nutrients to the algae that proliferate under the solar radiation. These bioreactors will allow for thermal inertia up to 50 per cent of heating and air conditioning savings, whereas the biofuel refinery will be directly integrated in the base of the building. SPRING 2015

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In 2050, this district (also called Villa d’Este) presenting the highest concentration of towers in Paris, will be the emblem of the repatriation of the urban vertical agriculture on several floors in the heart of the capital city. Thus Puccini, Palerme, Rimini, Verdi, towers etc. will be enveloped by an ecoskeleton in plaited bamboo. On the one hand, this ecological 3D canvas will structurally support the overload of individual vegetable garden balconies and community orchards surrounding the existing housing. On the other hand, the funnels shaped by the braiding geometry will accentuate the Venturi effect, accelerating the strength of the prevailing winds to increase the output of the three-blade wind turbines. Besides the bio-air condition of the atmosphere provided mainly by the evapoperspiration of the plants, and in addition to the

electricity generated by the axial wind turbines implanted on the roofs-blade in the funnels, the main energy source will come from the concentrating thermodynamic plant. This will be composed of a collector implanted on the Abeille Tower and parabolic helio-static mirrors planted on the Parisian zinc roofs, concentrating the sunrays towards the collector to increase the temperature of a heat transfer fluid. This liquid will be sent in a water heater transforming the water into steam. The steam will make the turbines turn, which will pull the alternators producing this electricity even outside the solar irradiation time, i.e. 24/7. The towers of Villa d’Este will be BEPOS whereas the inhabitants will cultivate their own organic food in this nourishing ecosystem, new social innovation ground. Green Building & Sustainable Strategies

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Peripheral Paris - 20th district Porte des Lilas

Peripheral Paris - 19th district porte d’Aubervilliers

A hive of honeycomb housing developing an energy solidarity cooperation

A vertical urban farm repatriating the countryside in the heart of the city

Cheap housing was evident until 1949 as well as housing at moderate rent. They appeared during the industrial revolution and were inspired by the hygienistic and paternalistic reflections of the modernistic middle class of the Second Empire to accommodate labourers. They are mostly implanted in non aedificandi areas of the old fortifications (Thiers wall) between the Maréchaux Boulevard and the ring road. In orange bricks, of six floors high generally, they are available for the modest and popular households of the capital city. This ring is in the heart of the energy renovation issue of the old buildings in Paris. The thermal bridges and the phenomena of cold partitions coming from the heterogeneity of the materials (concrete – bricks) are true challenges of interior, thermal and hydrometric insulation.

The porte d’Aubervilliers is an important gate of the Parisian northeast, located at the junction of two districts of Paris. Whereas the north area located in Aubervilliers has been encountering important transformations since 2005 with the construction of Icade Headquarters, the Millénaire shopping Mall (2011), then Veolia Headquarters (targeted for 2016), the roundabout located on top of the ring road of Paris with a view on Aubervilliers city remains a true urban no-man’s land devoured by the pollution caused by the proliferation of vehicles. The Farmscrapers Towers concept aims at articulating the Claude Bernard urban development zone and its linear forest with the new master plan of Aubervilliers. As urban articulation of ecological corridors: the three vegetable towers implanted on an urban forest in the shape of a huge manta ray. This manta ray filtering the air of the tunnel pile

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In order to increase the offer of housings in Paris, the Honeycomb Towers propose to double the height of these housing complexes, leading to the construction of individual interlocking mini-houses. Like a honeycomb with hexagonal alcoves, this urban implant will offer new inhabitants vegetable gardens and suspended orchards, allowing for the advantages of an rural home in the city. Structurally, this hive would be supported by a steel structure that descends the loads vertically through the existing chimney ducts crossing the buildings. Actually, as of January 2015, wood combustion was totally forbidden in Paris and these ducts already drilled will now find a second use. The structure in honeycomb will allow for rein-

forcement of the tower to guarantee maximum lighting. The single-family module will be standardized and prefabricated. The concepts of doublewall and double deck will be directly integrated for a maximal spatial flexibility, an efficient innervation of the fluids and an optimal thermal and sound insulation. This great meccano toy with an organic silhouette will be transformed into a true suspended nourishing garden in the sky, inviting the Parisian fauna and the flora to thrive. The roofs will be covered by thermal and photovoltaic solar panels whereas with the Sérurier and Mortier boulevards, the Phylolights (hybridization of a lamp and an axial wind turbine) will ensure the self-sufficient public lighting. SPRING 2015

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up a mixed programming under the shape of vertical farms with floors of agriculture fields cultivated by their own inhabitants. The objective is to repatriate the countryside in the heart of the city and to reintegrate the food production locally. True city district piling up mixed blocks, these Farmscrapers make the urban space more dense by optimizing the quality of life for the inhabitants by the reduction of the transport means, the implantation of a domotic network, the renaturalization of the public and private spaces and the integration of clean renewable energies as the biomass, the methanisation, the photovoltaic and thermal solar energy and the wind turbines. This pioneer project has eight objectives: 1/ The reduction of the ecological footprint enhancing the local consumption by its food autonomy and by the reduction of the transport means.

2/ The reintegration of the local employment in the primary and secondary sectors co-producing fresh and organic products. 3/ The recycling in short and closed loop of the organic waste by anaerobic compost, hydrogen fuel cells and phyto-purification lagoon. 4/ The saving of the rural territory, reducing the deforestation, the desertification and the pollution of the phreatic tables. 5/ The oxygenation of the polluted city centres where air quality is heavily polluted. 6/ The limitation of the systematic recourse to pesticides, insecticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers. 7/ Saving water by the recycling of the urban water. 8/ The protection of the ecosystemic cycles in the heart of the city. It’s a project of BEPOS living stones reintegrating the biodiversity. Green Building & Sustainable Strategies

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Future Paris - 10th district Gare du Nord Photosensitive towers rooted on the piezo-electrical station platforms In Paris, the railway network of the seven SNCF trains (Gare du Nord, Gare de l’Est, Gare Saint- Lazare, Gare Montparnasse, Gare d’Austerlitz, Gare de Bercy et Gare de Lyon) represent a total surface area of several tens of hectares that will get more vertically dense by 2050. Gare du Nord gets more traffic than any other station in Europe and is third in the world after Tokyo and Chicago. In the heart of this European multimodal crossroads, more than 700,000 travellers will travel every day on the 2,000 trains on the 32 rails. The Mangrove Towers will be built on this territory of iron and steel drawn by the forks of these intertwined rails. They will join the modernist neoclassical architecture of the Gare du Nord, whose construction of the Great Hall dates from the universal 12

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exhibition of 1855. As their name reflects, Mangrove Towers will be inspired by the mangrove trees of the maritime marshes with their pneumatophores and their stilt roots. They will be implanted directly on the platforms of the Gare du Nord and they will ramify as ecosystem resilient to the climate imbalance. These towers will accommodate a mix of offices, hotels and housing dedicated to international and travelling customers. True forest of planted towers, this urban mangrove will be energy positive, which means it will produce more energy than it will consume (electrical, calorific or food). The project would be eco-designed from state-of-the-art renewable energies to present a zero carbon footprint.

Indeed, the station platforms will be full of piezoelectrical captors polarizing under the action of the mechanical constraint generated by the travellers. The tubular facades will be composed of Grätzel cells forming a photo-electrochemical skin inspired by the light (photons), will also produce the electricity by electrolysis. Finally, the towers will not only be self-sufficient in energy but they will be also depolluting thanks to their structure in titanium dioxide. Their branches’ structure (imitating the bark of mangrove trees) will utilize X-rays in the presence of oxygen and humidity, the decomposition of the organic, solid, liquid and gaseous matters in the urban smog (through self-cleaning, destruction of COV, destruction of NOX, anti-mist, UV absorber, etc.). SPRING 2015

Green inhabited amphibian bridges across the Seine River upstream and downstream of Paris Will the capital one day have 39 bridges across its river instead of the 37 contemporary crossings existing in 2014? As illustrated in the beautiful painting of Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Raguenet, all the bridges of the Middle Ages were inhabited and created a functional, cultural and merchant urban continuum between the right bank and the left bank. With the objective of making the city more dense by inhabited vertical ecosystems, the Bridge Towers project proposes the construction of two green bridges at the river gates of Paris. These two bridges with jellyfish silhouettes emerging from the water will link the 15th and the 16th arrondissements in the west to the 12th and 13th district in the east. SPRING 2015

They will be twin towers molding and re-customizing both existing ring road bridges extraordinarily in order to enhance both river entrances to the city. Perforated by wide funnels, the towers will be supplied by electrical energy thanks to multi blades wind turbines replaced by hydrokinetic turbines (hydro electrical turbines) which will use the kinetic energy (river motivity). The conveyors of these water wheels will allow for the reestablishment of the rotary movement of the axis from the linear movement of the river. The heat pump will be able to capture the water calories of the Seine to heat the towers. By this use of renewable energies, the towers will be BEPOS building, i.e. with positive energy.

The bridge will create a new territory/urban form linking two towers of more than 200 meters. Its junction will reinforce the urban continuum by affirming in the same time its particularity, which is to be linked to the river that it crosses and to the ground it reconnects. This inhabited bridge, these two amphibian towers across the Seine, will meet the housing crisis of the city of Paris by including dense and mixed program facilities, but also hotelapartments to meet the needs of the world city. The inhabited bridge will reinforce the symbolism of the city and will refer to a new form of urban and social innovation in terms of clean collective housing with zero carbon emission and zero waste. Green Building & Sustainable Strategies 13

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Balance also takes pride in its recognition as an environmentally-friendly contractor, with all debris removed and disposed of in a legal manner – absolutely no illegal dumping. This conscientiousness certainly extends to all facets of the Balance operation, with luxury custom home design and building, with modern basement finishing and comprehensive project management part of the mix. Capovilla points out that Balance’s reputation as a renowned, high-end homebuilder has positioned the company as a premium provider for extraordinary, luxurious estates. He says Balance looks forward to “creating your luxury, dream home, masterpiece” in the future. SPRING 2015

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Custom framing is at the heart of the Balance philosophy and a core feature of its business. Capovilla says its custom homes and residential framing projects are examples of some of the best framing in Ontario. “If the frame is strong, it provides the necessary support for everything that follows,” he says. “But if it’s weak, no amount of finishes can hide its flaws. From the foundation walls, to the framing of the structure, to the final exquisite features, inception to completion, we can turn ideas into reality.” “Our list of accomplishments includes multi-million dollar mansions, custom home construction, and lavish upscale home renovations,” he says. “The pride and craftsmanship that goes into the work we produce as luxury homebuilders is simply unmatched.” Capovilla added that Balance continues to strive, and source, new and alternative products and methods that provide for sustainable buildings.

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hen it comes to windows and doors, it seems KINGSHORE Windows & Doors Inc. has all the bases covered. “When we started KINGSHORE we wanted to build a brand that would be recognized for high-quality products,” says co-owner Frank Plasa. “As an example of our top-notch service, we make it our policy to double-check every product before it leaves our shipping doors.” Says co-owner Donald Cain: “If we wouldn’t put the product in our own home, then we won’t put it in yours.” KINGSHORE spends considerable time sourcing materials and suppliers that complement the company’s level of quality. They say high-end custom homes, mid-rise buildings, renovations and large remodeling projects are their specialty, adding that they have some of the best ratings for windows on the market today.

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LePage Millwork In addition to manufacturing vinyl windows, KINGSHORE recently started to manufacture aluminum windows. “We had so many requests for aluminum windows for both residential housing and for mid-rise buildings that the decision to manufacture came easily,” says Plasa. With so much information available today on the internet, Plasa says many consumers are dropping into the KINGSHORE showroom, knowing exactly what they want. “We have builders and architects who send

their clients to our showroom to meet with us,” he explains. “We spend the time to educate them on all the products we have. No pressure, it’s part of the service we offer. We try to help them make their decisions as pleasant a buying experience as possible.” Plasa says KINGSHORE does very little advertising, explaining that the majority of business comes from referrals and repeat business. “It’s a real sense of satisfaction when we

receive a call from someone saying they were referred to us. We know we are doing things right.” KINGSHORE carries a complete line of custom home products, matching the needs of the homeowner, builder, architect and designer. They manufacture vinyl windows with multipoints locks, folding contour handles, with dual glazing or triple glazing options. They also manufacture all aluminum windows for those huge wall-to-wall and floorto-ceiling windows.

“In addition, we carry a complete line of wood windows and wood interior windows with an aluminum clad exterior,” Plasa continues. “Both these types of windows and doors can come primed, painted or stained, depending on our customers’ needs. Bi-folding doors, oversized lift and slide doors add ventilation and beauty to any home.” Recently, says Plasa, KINGSHORE had a request for a very high-end product from Germany. “As a result, we now import an amazingly high-end tilt and turn product line from one of Germany’s top manufacturers. That’s why our tag line is ‘Solutions for every Project.’ No matter how big the home, how modern the look or how customized the product must be, chances are we can fill the requirement. “With so many mid-rise buildings under construction and planned in Ontario, our ability to manufacture aluminum windows and doors for the first-floor retail units and vinyl windows for the higher levels ensures the projects meet their budgets. “Our windows are tested to meet and exceed stringent code requirements and our ability to be a single source supplier ensures customer delivery schedules, colour coordinations and complete product requirements are all achieved. We have numerous mid-rise projects scheduled each year and that number is growing. With our unique ability to offer different types of windows with different features and benefits we are attracting many interested

Remodeling builders, developers and architects seeking something different, something special for their project, and that’s what we do.” Cain agrees that “your remodeling or renovation project has never been so easy,” with KINGSHORE. “We take the time to answer all your questions and provide solutions to any obstacles. Product options, colour options, glazing options – they are all detailed during our con-

sultation stage. Each home goes through our production line one at a time. Every employee is focused on quality, not quantity. That’s why we have so many referrals. Our installers are some of the best in the industry. They represent our company during the entire remodeling process so it is important to have the best.” Lepage Millwork has been manufacturing window and door products for over 50 years.

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“Their quality is absolutely amazing,” says Cain. “We have put these products in numerous homes throughout the city and they complement any home style and décor. Specialty shapes and bar patterns, custom-styled wood doors can all be achieved. Bring us your drawings or pictures from a magazine and chances are we can have it made for you.” If it’s tilt and turn windows and doors you need, KINGSHORE imports from Kneer-Südfenster in Germany. “This product line is like fine furniture” say Plasa. “I have been in the window and door business for over 32 years and I have never seen quality tilt and turn products like this. Available in all wood, wood with exterior aluminum cladding, all vinyl, or vinyl with exterior aluminum cladding, these tilt and turn products can be used in remodeling projects, new custom homes, as well as mid-rise buildings. Their quality and energy efficiency is hard to match.” (Also available for passive housing projects.)

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t’s no surprise that Green Buildings & Sustainable Strategies magazine is leading the way in cost-efficient virtual trade show technology for the green construction industry. After all, part of the magazine’s mandate is to alert readers and advertisers to the latest sustainable development trends. So to be at the vanguard of the first-ofits-kind virtual trade show, entitled Brightest! Greenest! Buildings NORTH AMERICA, is entirely apropos.

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“It’s a tremendous,” says GBSS magazine publisher Giulio Marinescu, Media Advisor/ Business Development for the North American show, to be held in “cyberspace” February 17-18, 2016. “I will be working with the organizers to make this a memorable, and valuable, experience for both exhibitors and attendees.” Following in the footsteps of a successful predecessor in Europe – where virtual exhibit stands represented 36 European countries in the inaugural event back in 2014 – Brightest! Greenest! Buildings NORTH AMERICA promises a lot to anyone involved with the green building industry. Green Building & Sustainable Strategies 23

It’s not unrealistic, then, based on current partnerships and future projections, that this event will attract widespread media coverage and easily bring in a target audience of between 5,000 to 10,000 quality attendees over the course of the show. In a nutshell, this show will reach all of North America and beyond, spread green building ideas, best practices and innovation, but without the environmental impact and cost limitations of exhibiting in, or attending, a traditional trade fair or conference. For exhibitors, booth setup will be simple and straightforward, and organizers can help with any of the interactive features. There is an instructional video available at http://www. brightestgreenestbuildings.eu/ and attend-

The event itself will celebrate North America’s greenest and most successful building projects. Each exhibit will showcase sustainable construction solutions to the right attendees in a timely and cost-efficient manner. Participants will be able to exchange contact information with North America’s most active green building professionals. And exhibitors will be able to staff their booths virtually with computer avatars and reach all of North America. Brightest! Greenest! Buildings will bring

together leading green investors, developers, bankers, building owners, project managers, architects, engineers, facilities managers, technology, materials, products, and service providers, along with municipalities, expert organizations and other key stakeholders of green building projects; saving money and eliminating travel time, construction, logistics, and associated carbon emissions with physical meetings and trade exhibitions. Steven Borncamp, Managing Director, Brightest! Greenest! Buildings, says since

the shows are virtual, there is no restriction preventing anyone around the world from participating. “We did, however, want to separate subsequent editions into regions to give some cohesion as best we can,” he explains, “and not be overwhelming in the bio-regions addressed and design approaches. “We are happy to have added a North American edition of Brightest! Greenest! Buildings and will kickstart this effort with some of our European partners from the prior events.”

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ees are encouraged to peruse the site as well. “We work hard to connect real estate investors and construction solution providers to really demonstrate that economically successful, deep green projects are possible today,” says

Borncamp, “and that they can be accomplished without adding undue risk to a project.” For exhibitor booth features, go to the website and check under the ‘Why Exhibit’ section. Exhibitors can configure their virtual booths in about two hours, using instructional guidelines from the promotional material. Online tours can also be organized to see first hand how the virtual expo works. Dominika Czerwinska, Manager of Membership and Europe Network with the World Green Building Council, participated in the inaugural European show in 2014 and was extremely impressed by its effectiveness. “This event has delivered a new opportunity to connect businesses with one another and has increased the flexibility of our access to information,” says Czerwinska, “allowing us to make the most of our valuable time. My experience was very positive and I see a great potential for this platform in the future.”

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Bolstered by advance print and online media and advertising, Brightest! Greenest! Buildings NORTH AMERICA will enjoy a social media strategy using Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter and others that will actively promote the event beforehand and during the event as well as provide follow up activities. Attendees and exhibitors can easily speak, send instant messages, and exchange

information – and they will be able to visit three-dimensional exhibit booths, pavilions, and presentations in an auditorium setting. Exhibitors will have access to the following information: • Number of visitors to their booth; • Number of visitors contacted in chat; • Number of clicks on their brochures, products, videos, and posters;

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As a key player in sustainable construction and an engaged partner of the Green Building Councils, Saint-Gobain wanted to be part of this innovative and ecofriendly trade fair on this topic. A great experience, with a very nice look & feel. We were happy to be part of it.

What are the time requirements and costs to exhibit? Exhibiting at the event is very time and cost efficient. Here is a quick breakdown of the minimum resource requirements to exhibit at Brightest! Greenest! Buildings: 1 hour to take a tour to get familiar with the virtual trade fair platform and ask our team your questions. 30 minutes to register and pay as an exhibitor. 4–8 hours to design and construct your booth using your existing logos, photos, PDFs, etc. 4–8 hours to announce and promote your potential clients using your own text or text provided to you from our team that you can easily customize. 20 hours having your representative(s) staff your exhibit booth as “Avatars” from any computer with internet access for the duration of the event.

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Be an exhibitor for only 30 to 38 hours total including preparation and participation! All exhibit booth features and prices are listed at Brightest! Greenest! Buildings. Exhibit booths at early discount prices for a basic booth that includes: 1) Promotional material you can easily customize. 2) Access to the “booth configurator” that provides easy virtual booth construction from anyone able to resize your existing photos, logos and graphics. 3) Your exhibit booth available to attract visitors to the event. 4) The benefit of our competent, international team working to promote the event and attract the right attendees for a successful event.

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Pascal Eveillard Sustainable Habitat Director Saint-Gobain Daikin was very happy to participate. We are always keen to meet new contacts and specialists interested in green building technology. This virtual exhibition was a cost efficient way to reach out to those looking for the right HVAC solution for their Green Building projects. Stefaan Segers Solutions Business Executive Energy Solutions Business Sales Division, Daikin Europe NV

Burlington-based development company has one very telling guiding principle – to provide sustainably appropriate designs with its evergrowing list of green projects. It’s not a wish list, either, for LJM Developments; it’s a fact of life. With a track record that showcases the eco-centred attitudes of LJM, there are many examples that highlight their ‘living green’ mentality. “LJM Developments is constantly looking for ways to innovate its designs and technology to incorporate green living and more efficient use of energy,” says Shaheryar Mian, Business Development Manager at LJM.

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“The company looks forward to introducing future projects with this very important environmental initiative in mind.” One has to look no further than three projects currently in develop-

ment, under construction, or completed. Mian pointed to Waterview Condominiums in Grimsby, as well as Appleby Gardens Condominiums and Ironstone Condominiums, both in Burlington.

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Waterview’s Phase 1 is now 75 per cent sold. Phase 2 is launching in Spring 2015. There will be close to 300 condos in three high-rise towers – a first, Mian says – and LJM plans to utilize geothermal energy at the site. Compared to a resort-style setup, there will also be a rooftop terrace, with each unit facing out onto Lake Ontario. He points out that “people can walk out to the lake and have access to the beach right there. We find that the building has been selling really quickly, especially given that it’s the first building of its kind in the area.” Another project that personifies modern green living is Appleby Gardens at the corner of Corporate Drive and Appleby Line. Right away you notice how residents can easily access basic amenities close by. They are within walking distance of restaurants, fitness facilities and shops. Better still, they are kitty-corner to grocery stores, schools, green spaces, trails, the QEW highway and the Burlington GO station. “We also put in independent unit controls for heating and cooling,” Mian says. “There is also independent suite hydro metering, and some appliances are Energy Star.” Appleby Gardens, he says, “is an area that has developed tremendously in the last five years. And it’s just four kilometres from Lake Ontario. It sits in the middle of a developed neighbourhood, and a place that’s very attractive for young couples and young people, as well as couples who wish to retire there.” Perhaps the Ironstone project best demonstrates LJM’s green track record. Completed a couple of years ago, and fully occupied now, Ironstone provides a setting that appeals to families wanting to live in an urban neighbourhood, yet also seeking a green lifestyle. Standing out as one of the first high-rise residential buildings in Canada with full geothermal heating and cooling throughout, it was a trailblazer, to be sure. SPRING 2015

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With the market fluctuations of oil and gas, never more evident than in today’s marketplace, the sustainable energy source proved an attractive addition. But LJM took their green initiatives even further, starting with a 1,500-square-foot rooftop courtyard. Residents, then, were able to enjoy outdoor living, capped off with an outdoor hot tub. There are also outdoor kitchen facilities, dining and lounge areas. The list goes on. Other green initiatives include water conservation through low-flow faucets and toilets, auxiliary solar elements, a room for recycling, and secure bicycle parking. Even during construction, LJM utilized green construction practices, using building materials with recycled content and waste management reduction procedures. “It transformed Burlington’s skyline and became the tallest building in the city at the time,” says Mian. “It was the first green building in the area and was recognized across Ontario for its green initiatives.” www.ljmdevelopments.ca

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Planning Korea tackles sustainable challenge and chips in with futuristic egg-shaped pods

hen you hear the words futuristic sustainable architecture mentioned, it’s a safe bet that the name Vincent Callebaut will come up as well.

That’s certainly the case, again, with the Belgium-based architect proposing 2050 Paris Smart City, where he envisions remaking the French capital into a city of green. His ambitious idea was commissioned by

the Parisian elected council, but he’s not the only thought-provoking architect to get in on the act – Planning Korea has also taken a stab at transforming Paris into a sustainable city.

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Said a spokesperson for Planning Korea: “The concept of L’air Nouveau de Paris is a practice of consilience of space which suggests the air of Paris for the 21.5th Century.” They went on to say that the architectural design did not follow any typical form or building context. “As linked directly and indirectly with each other, spaces floating in the air have a unique organic structure, considering individuality and connectivity at the same time.” In their proposal, Planning Korea provides vague descriptions of what sustainable features would be included, although the common theme of air quality is maintained throughout. “The airspace that breathes into each other is the encounter between past and future, the conversation between society and individual, the moment between idea and creation and the medium that connects Paris and the world,” says the proposal. “The area around the architecture, society and environment then integrate as a point of view, making a consilience.” Moreover, the proposal went on to describe the design motif for L’air Nouveau de Paris. “It was dragged from the observation of a micro world of nature, with little organisms in the gardens and woods in downtown of Paris, co-existing within the macro world of artificial structures – the buildings.” Planning Korea’s description also maintained that micro-organisms in nature are quite different, generally, than man-made structures in urban areas, but that L’air Nouveau de Paris would change that. “As these living complexes take a key role in sustainability and resource circulation, [we feel] L’air Nouveau de Paris will be crucial to sustainable urban revitalization of Paris.” Should the plan come to fruition, it would reportedly be constructed at the Ternes-Villiers area of Paris, in a sprawling 3,891-squaremetre space, sometime around the middle of this century. SPRING 2015

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BUILDING ON A TIME-TESTED GREEN REPUTATION RND Construction a pioneer in providing a deep-rooted commitment to sustainable development

t’s no secret what RND Construction brings to the table. Since 1990, the Ottawa-based company has been a pioneer in green building, cementing a reputation as one of their city’s foremost general contracting firms. On their office walls, you will find a plethora of certificates and awards for innovative ecological building practices and other evidence of the company’s deep-rooted commitment to sustainable development. The oldest of these, in fact, might be a framed certificate honouring RND President Roy Nadram’s completion of a Canadian General Standards Board course on insulating homes for energy conservation nearly 30 years ago, long before green became an industry buzzword. In the intervening years, RND has thrived on the passion and skill it takes to build custom homes at the forefront of sustainability, energy efficiency and quality. By developing innovative construction methods, RND has established itself a trusted advisor and collaborator, building numerous Energy Star, R-2000 and LEED homes. “We understand that your home is one of the most significant investments in life,” says Nadram, formally educated in engineering and economics, but also a Gold Seal Certified Project Manager, Certified Construction Superintendent and LEED Accredited Professional.

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RND takes environmental sustainability very seriously, understanding that it’s crucially important to meet essential human needs for a healthy, comfortable indoor climate. So for each project, RND strives to meet those needs without compromising the future, ensuring that the three pillars of sustainability – economics, society and environment – are factored into the equation. In short, RND takes on the challenge so homes can be designed and built to improve clients’ lives. As such, each of their homes is durable, saves energy costs, hedges against increasing energy costs and guarantees a higher resale value. To show how these goals are reached, Nadram cited three examples of RND’s LEED Platinum Ottawa work – A Nelson Street home, with architect John Donkin, an Ivy Crescent home from architect Christopher Simmonds and a Wood Avenue home, with architect Linda Chapman. Nelson Street “This house began with a desire for self-sufficiency on a tight urban lot in the centre of Ottawa. Off-grid living was not expected, but maximizing green space and natural light and minimizing energy use were the owners’ top priorities. The environmental performance of the house is exceptional and has an EnerGuide rating of 85. The sunlit interior and the green, growing landscape at grade and above make the sustainable nature of the home more than a technical achievement. It is a living presence in the day-to-day life of the homeowners. They live in a garden.” Ivy Crescent “The award-winning Zen Barn is built in a historic and eclectic Ottawa neighbourhood. The linear composition of the home is interrupted by the vertical volumes of light wells, the stairs, and the courtyard. The resulting inter-penetration of views, light, and space along the south side of the home creates strong indoor-outdoor connections. It is estimated that there will be a 19 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (compared to an average home) and an energy consumption reduction of 46 per cent. The home achieved an EnerGuide rating of 82, 10 points higher than what is required by the Ontario Building Code.”

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environmentally-friendly building strategies. The technology and innovations that have been implemented on this project include the Hambro floor system, energy efficient in-floor radiant heating system, an Energy Recovery Ventilation (ERV) system and LED lighting throughout to provide energy cost savings and a comfortable work environment. The major construction component of the building is the HambroD500 System. The system consists of steel joists placed approximately 4 feet apart, spanning the distance of the opening attached securely to the exterior structural steel studs’ walls. Removable roll bars are locked into the joists to provide lateral strength as well as to support the plywood forms. With this system, sheets of plywood are then placed on top of the roll bars, in between the top chord of the joist along with welded wire mesh installed over the top chord of the joist and the mesh providing the new floor. When the concrete has fully strengthened, the roll bars and plywood can be removed and reused. With the use of this system, GEN-PRO was able to minimize cost, since less concrete and reinforcing steel was required, and reduce overall construction time. An energy-efficient in-floor radiant heating system has been installed on each floor combined with six inches of spray foam insulation within the construction of the walls. These provide and maintain heat throughout the building while ensuring a comfortable work environment for employees. The in-floor heating system is made up of PEX piping secured to the welded wire mesh throughout each floor within the concrete slab. The pipes are laid out in a certain sequence or “zone” to properly circulate the hot water, distributing the heat evenly throughout. The pipes start and return to a central manifold. It’s called a closed loop system where the water circulates through each zone and then returns to the manifold, which moves the cooler water back to the boiler system where it is reheated and recirculated through the system. The GEN-PRO office building on Plains Road East in Burlington, Ontario, is equipped with an Energy Recovery Ventilator (ERV) that exchanges the energy contained in the office space outgoing air to treat incoming outdoor air. During the winter season the incoming air is warmed prior to being sent to the heating equipment. SPRING 2015

In the summer season, vice versa, warm air is cooled prior to being sent to the air conditioning unit. This helps save on the capacity of equipment and the amount of energy that is required to heat or cool the air distributed through the office.

Additional benefits are the enhancing of the indoor air quality and the ability to meet the ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers) vitalization and energy standards.

The building is also equipped with energyefficient LED and fluorescent lighting throughout. Occupancy sensors were added within specific areas of the building to provide additional energy savings.

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o say there’s been a swing in the learning curve about geothermal energy would be an understatement. Back when GeoSource Energy began cementing its reputation as a ground-breaking leader in the field back in 2004, there were a lot of myths about the process, says company CEO Stan Reitsma, but today awareness of the technology is increasing and “it seems at least now that many developers have heard of it, either positive or negative. But at least they know it exists.” Because of the inroads made, Reitsma sees nothing but positives in the near future. SPRING 2015

“Based on ongoing conversations with clients, potential clients and different levels of government, we see that the technology, in general, is starting to get a buzz associated with it,” Reitsma says. “People are starting to see the true advantages of it and seriously looking at implementation of it, or have already included it in their buildings. “Now, with the anticipated increases in the cost of natural gas, we can see nothing but positive with geo in the foreseeable future.” In the past decade, he says the type of geothermal work has changed a lot. At one time it was almost all residential with geothermal grants to retrofit houses, with very little being done commercially. Now, he says, the business has transitioned. “I think, both commercially and privately, it’s matured an awful lot in the past 10 years,” says Reitsma. “It’s not quite mainstream yet, but it’s becoming that way.” One trend he’s noticed is that once developers utilize geothermal in one building project, they tend to follow up with the same technology on subsequent jobs. “That certainly suggests to me that they like it,” Reitsma says. “A lot of our job is education and we’ll continue to do that.” To that end, Reitsma points out that he strongly believes GeoSource stands out among its competition. “What makes GeoSource different is our dedication to innovation and quality in design and installation,” he says. “ We continue to look for improvements such as higher performing grouts and heat exchangers and cleaner, more efficient and faster drilling techniques and rigs, all to improve the economics and assist moving geothermal mainstream. We are challenged by many things such as geology and weather, but our investment in equipment, people and systems allows us to control our challenges and successfully deliver on-time and on-budget.” Not one to stand pat, Reitsma points out that there have been some key changes to the geothermal industry that GeoSource is on top of. SPRING 2015

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He says there are several important developments, including pending changes to the Ontario Building Code, targeted for 2017, that would require significant reduction in energy use. That, in turn, means that developers of office and multi-residential buildings could be facing changing code requirements. “And as we see it, geothermal offers a reasonably simple way to meet those requirements,” he stresses. “Other options such as an improved envelope may become limiting, more costly, or less desirable for the end user. “With geothermal, the developer is not forced to make other large changes, something they are definitely adverse to do.” Another development to be aware of, he says, is the availability of finance options for geothermal systems. Now, long-term financing that was previously limited to common area condo equipment, for example, is now available for the geothermal part of the a building. “We are also seeing the entry of several large utility type companies that are willing to provide turnkey geothermal systems or purchase them once constructed,” Reitsma notes. “Because geothermal is competitive with conventional HVAC systems, the return on investment is attractive and risk is low because geothermal systems are simple and robust. “Finally, broader understanding of geothermal systems and experience gained on recent projects is leading to improved implementation of the technology.”

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Owner & CEO of GeoSource Energy, Stanley Reitsma. Photo: Claire Dam

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