Peter Busby, AIA, FRAIC, LEED AP, Busby Perkins + Will, Vancouver

      Examine Dockside, a mixed-use urban community, built on an 11.6-acre brownfield property in Victoria, British Columbia, comprising 26 buildings, totaling 1,000,000 square feet, and built over 3 to 10 years. The project, in its entirety, is being designed to a LEEDTM platinum rating-the first of its kind in North America-and will feature an innovative biomass cogeneration system, demonstrating how this technology can be applied and distributed in a district heating system for large, urban Canadian residential and commercial developments.

Learning objectives:

• Demonstrate how taking a triple bottom line (economic, environmental, and social sustainability) approach to community and building development leads to successful, socially vibrant, and environmentally sound projects
• Discuss optimizing synergies between different uses on the site; treating waste as food; and how alternative energy and waste water systems are applicable to large-scale developments
• Review how a brownfield site can be transformed into a viable, liveable community that provides housing as well as retail and light industrial workspaces.