Operational & Embodied: North East Scarborough Community Recreation Center CaGBC Zero Carbon Approach

The first of its kind for Ontario, the North East Scarborough Recreation, Childcare, and Aquatic Centre is targeting Net Zero Energy and Emissions and pursuing CaGBC Zero Carbon Building certification. The process incorporates whole lifecycle carbon thinking by including embodied carbon analysis which also set targets for reductions. During the early design stages, a Net Zero feasibility study analyzed a variety of active, passive, and renewable strategies that could help reduce operational energy consumption and carbon emissions, as well as reviewed material selections towards embodied carbon quantification and reductions. This presentation will share the whole lifecycle carbon approach, as well as the City of Toronto initiatives and thinking process which led to the impressive aspirations for this project.

Speakers:

Dejan Skoric, PMP, LEED AP EBOM, Senior Project Manager, City of Toronto: Dejan Skoric is a senior project manager with the City of Toronto, and holds both PMP and LEED AP EBOM accreditations. His work at the City has been focused on renewable and sustainable project development, energy efficiency, environmental awareness, and the importance of low-carbon projects for the future of the City. Dejan has been instrumental in driving sustainability and resiliency goals, and in delivering low-energy and high-performance buildings. He has been a key driver for the City's ground-breaking net-zero emissions buildings, deep energy retrofits, geoexchange retrofits, solar photovoltaics, and energy storage projects. He is a member of the team that earned the City of Toronto the Canadian Solar Developer of the year award in 2017.

Zeina Elali, Senior Sustainability Advisor, Perkins & Will: Zeina’s vast experience places her at the forefront in understanding emerging clean technologies, high performance buildings, and low carbon lifecycle economics, including operational and embodied carbon. Zeina brings a conscious approach to projects focusing on operational and embodied carbon, energy, comfort, health and wellbeing, and ecological conservation in the design of the built environment. She has provided sustainability advisory on over 60 projects, which included CaGBC Zero Carbon Building and Living Building Challenge.