Anton Voronin

Awards: Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 2006 Urban Design Award ą Sustainability Society for College and University Planning Honor Award, Excellence in Planning 2004 Heritage Winnipeg Preservation Award for Excellence 2004 Heritage Winnipeg Preservation Award for Excellence 2003 Canadian Urban Institute Brownie Award Best Project Overall 2003 Oslo, Norway Green Building Challenge 2002 NRCan Largest C-2000 Project

Driving force: “Design facilitation and conceptual engineering, addressing all aspects of energy, environmental and functional performance of the architectural and building systems”… GF Shymko & Associates

History of the building Intact streetscape from 1800’s Princess street circa

History Con’t Part of the national Historic Cite “Exchange District”; the district is possibly “the largest collection of turn of the century and terracotta Architecture in North America” ( exchange.html

About: Currently occupied by the Red River College, behind the 5 buildings façade there are media and Information Technology departments.

Construction: el.com/portfolio/1/red_ri ver_college.aspx?categ ory=1&photo=3

About: The building was built before the advent of LEED in Canada Environmental perfrmance could be evaluated as LEED Gold or potential to achieve LEED Platinum. The construction achieved all project objectives including budget. The cost was about $33-35 million

Green features: Built on a brownfield site (Brownie award) 47% above the Model National Energy Code in energy use, roughly 200,000$ in annual savings Reused material from deconstruction of five historic buildings, 1960’s bank and a parking lot. Localized materials Can work as a heat sink, can accumulate heat for a night use

HVAC Room occupancy sensors Lots of penetrating light Green features con’t _college.aspx?category=1&photo=4

Green features: Photovoltaic array on a south wall; produces enough energy to power 5 houses a year ed_river_college.aspx?category=1&photo =0

Green features Green roof *Close to major municipal transit routes Low VOC on the finishes Low “Embodied energy”, energy it takes to make products.

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