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TELUS Gargen: Best Practice for Commercial Building Performance TELUS Garden Best Practice for Commercial Building Performance The TELUS Garden development, located in the heart of Downtown Vancouver, includes a 93,000m2 22-storey office tower at the corner of West Georgia Street and Seymour Street and a 53-storey residential tower [to be completed in June 2016] at the corner of Robson Street and Richards Street. The project consists of 50,000m2 of office space, 4000m2 of retail space, and 424 residential units; transforming an entire city block into one of North America’s most techno- logically advanced commercial developments. 1 By Jubin Jalil and Gary Rhode Read this article and take the quiz at: Take approved SABMag continuing education https://sabmagazine.com/educationWWW.SABMAGAZINE-EDUCATION.INFO courses for LEED AP credential maintenance. to receive 1 Core Learning Unit 1 16 15 2 3 4 6 7 5 7 10 14 8 10 Ground floor plan N 1 Retail entry elevator 9 Gas meter room 2 Plaza 10 Recycling/garbage room 3 Office lobby 11 Parkade entrance 4 Security/reception 12 Loading 5 Elevator lobby 13 Laneway 6 Restaurant 14 Service elevator 7 Retail 15 Koi pond 8 Shipping/mail office 16 Water feature Radiant slab heating/cooling Solar shades 22°C Operable windows 25°C Best Practice for Commercial 22°C Building Performance Triple-glazed curtain wall Individually-controlled floor air diffuser 20°C Perimeter low-voltage fan coils heating/cooling Underfloor displacement ventilation system Solar and radiant heating/ventilation, winter Radiant slab heating/cooling Solar shades 20°C 25°C Operable windows 22°C Triple-glazed curtain wall Individually-controlled floor air diffuser 20°C Perimeter low-voltage fan coils heating/cooling Underfloor displacement ventilation system Solar and radiant heating/ventilation, summer With a total of 91 LEED points achieved, TELUS Garden is the highest scor- TELUS Garden features a triple-glazed curtain wall. Each ing LEED Platinum certified office building in Canada. With exemplary energy facade is responsive to its own environmental aspect, be it performance, a mixed use program and the animation of the adjacent streets vertical glass fins and frit on the East and West facades or hor- and lanes, the project contributes both environmentally and socially to the izontal sunshades on the South. The design team worked with City of Vancouver’s goal to become the greenest city in the world by 2020. the curtain wall manufacturer to optimize energy performance while addressing the technical challenges of integrating these Energy Conservation solar control elements in the curtain wall. TELUS Garden is the result of an integrated design process in which ambi- Operable windows were introduced into the office spaces, a tious energy conservation targets were set, met and ultimately exceeded departure from the traditional approach of hermetically sealed through a multidisciplinary approach to the design of the building envelope, facades. This was possible because the displacement ventila- mechanical and electrical systems. The initial energy target was 35% below tion system [see below] does not need to be balanced in the the ASHRAE 90.1-2007 baseline. Through the integrated design approach, the same way as traditional mechanical systems. The introduction design and energy model came in at 3,300 MWh/year or an energy intensity of natural light and ventilation was also a purposeful demon- of 69.9 kWh/m2/year. This figure is 43% below the energy intensity of a refer- stration of TELUS and Westbank’s corporate commitment to ence baseline building. create a healthy workplace for its employees. axonometric.pdf 1 2016-05-24 1:53 PM A Sustainable diagram B C A Photovoltaic panels B Stormwater management D K C Rainwater harvesting D Exterior vertical glass solar shade fins E High-performance, triple-glazed curtain wall F 70/30 Glass/solid wall ratio E G Fritted glass P F H 80/20 Glass/solid wall ratio E G D C I Operable windows [natural ventilation] H M I J Interior automated shading system Y J CM J K Exterior horizontal aluminum solar shades MY B C L Concrete and steel with recycled content CY N CMY M High-efficiency heating and cooling with hydronic radiant K M floor [heavy mass] and fan coils L P N Demand control and displacement ventilation R L O 50/50 Glass/solid wall ratio Q P Sky Gardens—preheat of ventilation air S Q Cistern for non-potable water O R End-of-trip facilities O S Electric car charging station [3%] B C PROJECT CREDITS SUSTAINABILITY Integral Group STRUCTURAL Glotman Simpson OWNER Westbank Corporation INTERIOR DESIGN mcfarlane green biggar Architecture + Design Inc., ARCHITECT Henriquez Partners Architects Henriquez Partners Architects, the Design Agency MECHANICAL Integral Group LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg ELECTRICAL Integral Group [Office only] 16 17 18 9 15 6 6 1 4 3 2 6 6 2 5 6 18 18 1 7 6 6 6 Typical floor plan N 1 1 3 2 1 Offices 14 10 8 5 2 Sky garden 4 11 11 6 3 Elevator lobby 12 4 Glass pavilion below 13 5 Electrical room 6 Telecom room Building section 1 Retail 7 Sky garden 13 Electrical room 2 Restaurant 8 Elevator pit room 14 End of trip facilities 3 Laneway 9 Amenity 15 Storage 4 Parkade 10 Bicycle storage 16 Machine room 5 Parkade entry ramp 11 Building services 17 Terrace 6 Office 12 Transformer room 18 Roof garden 2 In addition to these passive strategies, TELUS Garden also incor- Hydronic Heating and Cooling porates a range of active energy conservation strategies including Heating and cooling energy is efficiently distributed via a network the following. of hydronic piping to support the radiant heating and cooling ceiling slabs and energy efficient low voltage perimeter hydronic fan-coil District Energy System [DES] units. These operate at relatively low temperatures and provide an Most notable among many innovative strategies is the project’s energy efficient and comfortable work environment. district energy system, constructed and operated in partnership with Throughout the building, all systems are designed with resilience in FortisBC Alternate Energy Services. mind. Future compatibility is assured through common wiring infra- A central plant located within the building provides heating and structure, common communication protocols and the ability to adapt cooling for both the office and the residential tower. Low-grade waste to changes in available primary fuels. heat from the existing TELUS Data Centre [located on the same site] is directed to the central plant and used as a passive heat source. Control Systems Surplus heat rejected from the cooling system serving the office and As one might expect from a leading communications company, retail space is also captured. The combination of these sources of TELUS embraced the idea of further improving building perfor- waste heat is upgraded and transformed into useful heating energy mance through the design and specification of leading edge digital for reuse in the building. control systems. Auxiliary heating, when required, will be drawn from the pre-exist- Standard Control Systems ing Downtown Vancouver steam-based district energy system now Traditional control systems within buildings [HVAC, lighting, emer- operated by Creative Energy. gency power, access control and energy metering] typically use By capturing and redistributing low-grade waste heat throughout proprietary communications protocols and separate network infra- the development, the heating demand from Creative Energy Steam structures. Protocols are the languages that building technologies DES utility is anticipated to be reduced by 80% as compared to a con- speak. Common non-proprietary protocols include DALI, LONworks, ventional system. This is projected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions Modbus and BACnet. Unless there is a gateway performing protocol by one million kilograms annually - an amount equivalent to planting translation, these discrete systems cannot communicate. Typical 25,000 trees. design and construction processes do not allow for the convergence Rooftop Photovoltaic Array of these systems resulting in a building with sub-optimal performance, TELUS Garden hosts Vancouver’s largest photovoltaic [PV] array. segregated information and more challenging to operate. With a total of 288 PV panels and 70kW of electrical capacity, the Integrated Control Systems installation is projected to generate approximately 65,000 kWh of From the outset, the objective was to make TELUS Garden a Smart electricity per year. Building that would deliver higher quality building services, [such as The PV array contributes five points to the LEED Core and Shell illumination, thermal comfort, and indoor air quality] to ensure maxi- accreditation: four points for EAc2, and one point for EAc1. Based on mum productivity and comfort for its 2,000 occupants. the EAc1 template, the PV array will generate nearly 2% of the electri- Reaching this goal required the integrated implementation of cal energy consumed by TELUS Garden office. strategic measures to increase the ‘intelligence’ of the building sys- The PV array has also been designed to collect rainwater, with slop- tems, stressing compatibility, and enhanced inter-communication. To ing surfaces directing the water to gutters and ultimately to a storm achieve this, Integral Group designed TELUS Garden to use informa- water storage cistern. The water is then recycled to irrigate the many tion technology during operation, and the Stuart Olsen Centre for rooftop gardens and to flush toilets. The array has been positioned at Building Performance developed, tested and verified interfaces that the building edge so as to be a highly visible symbol of TELUS and connect a variety of subsystems which typically operate independent- Westbank’s corporate commitment to environmental sustainability. ly. The intent is to manage data for multiple stakeholders, provide Energy Efficient Elevators actionable information and realize efficiencies in real time. Enabling The office tower at TELUS Garden is serviced by 11 Destination all systems to communicate with one another in this way optimizes Dispatch elevators.
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