DISTRICT OF SQUAMISH
REPORT TO: Council FOR: Regular
PRESENTED: October 2, 2005 FILE: 6410 CEAP
FROM: Planning Department
SUBJECT: Squamish Community Energy Action Plan – Award contract.
Recommendation:
That the District of Squamish Council award the undertaking of the Community Energy Action Plan to Holland Barrs Planning group, in association with Bunt Engineering, Compass Resource management, Eco-Industrial Solutions, Shaun Martin Consulting, and West Coast Environmental Law, based on the CEAP Proposal submitted September 10th, 2007, and the amended project budget submitted September 19, 2007.
CAO Recommendation: THAT the CAO concurs with the Planning Department report and recommendations.
K. Anema, CAO
1. Background: Throughout 2006 and the beginning of 2007, the District of Squamish began the exciting work of understanding our energy and climate change impacts and possibilities. This included a baseline audit of our greenhouse gas emissions, and target setting with both long term vision, as well as with consistency with Provincially supported goals.
The District of Squamish applied to the Community Energy Action GOLD award, and was one of two municipalities in the province to win the top amount of $75,000. Following this recognition of our early work, District of Squamish Council budgeted an additional $70,000 to allow for the development of a Community Energy Action Plan.
A Request for Proposals for the Community Energy Action Plan was prepared and issued on July 31st, 2007, with a closing date of September 10, 2007. The RFP was directly sent to a total of 12 consultants, and Ted Sheldon of the Ministry of Environment forwarded the RFP to additional consultants who work in this sector.
On September 4th, 2007, Council appointed Councilor Heintzman to work with Planner Sabina FooFat and Squamish Sustainability Corp. Projects Lead Dan McRae, to an evaluation panel for the proposals that were submitted.
2007 Squamish Community Energy Action Plan – award contract 2. Project Information: A total of three proposals were submitted on September 10th, 2007. These included proposals from: The Sheltair Group Stantec Architecture Ltd. in collaboration with reSource Rethinking Building Inc. Holland Barrs Planning Group with Bunt Engineering, Compass Resource management, Eco-Industrial Solutions, Shaun Martin Consulting, and West Coast Environmental Law
All three proposals are of excellent caliber. However, the panelists agreed that the Holland Barrs proposal both met and exceeded the RFP requirements in key areas including; planned stakeholder consultation, review of energy effective transit planning, approach to educational and capacity building materials, and approaches to diversification of future energy sources.
The Holland Barrs proposal also came in at $155,000. This is $10,000 more than the total budgeted amount for this project. In their proposal, the proponent identified that they could also revise the proposal to total $145,000, with minor reductions to some of the programs.
At the Panel’s request Holland Barrs team submitted an amended budget on September 19th, 2007. This amended budget is attached to the report and recommended proposal.
The Holland Barrs proposal is based on a approach that details: Engagement that is collaborative and participatory; Technical review that is practical and innovative; Strategic approach to build capacity for future implementation; Strong momentum to move forward with implementation.
The entire recommended proposal is attached to this report.
Lowest Cost Proposal The Sheltair group submitted the lowest cost proposal as follows: Proposal: $136,000 – without public consultation Public Consultation: $6,000
The Sheltair proposal also reduced the Municipal Buildings Strategies component of the RFP, to an Energy Audit and recommendations for the Brennan Park Recreation Centre. Although an audit of just Brennan Park would result in a lower cost proposal, this change in scope differed considerably from what was identified in the RFP.
The amended Holland Barrs proposal, and the Stantec proposal were both submitted at $145,000.
3. Panel Comments: Choosing a leading proposal was difficult, and the merits of each application were noted and appreciated. Despite the challenge, the panel believes the Holland Barrs proposal 2007 Squamish Community Energy Action Plan – award contract most closely matched the CEAP Request for Proposal, and will result in an excellent, practical, innovative plan that will meet Squamish’s environmental and progressive green industry goals.
4. Policy Implication Consistent with Council endorsed 12-point pledge and Energy Efficiency/Climate change targets.
5. Recommendation: That the District of Squamish Council award the undertaking of the Community Energy Action Plan to Holland Barrs Planning group, in association with Bunt Engineering, Compass Resource management, Eco-Industrial Solutions, Shaun Martin Consulting, and West Coast Environmental Law, based on the CEAP Proposal submitted September 10th, 2007, and the amended project budget submitted September 19, 2007.
Alternate Recommendation 1:
That the District of Squamish Council NOT award the undertaking of the Community Energy Action Plan to Holland Barrs Planning group, in association with Bunt Engineering, Compass Resource management, Eco-Industrial Solutions, Shaun Martin Consulting, and West Coast Environmental Law, based on the CEAP Proposal submitted September 10th, 2007, and the amended project budget submitted September 19, 2007.
Implications: The panel could recommend the second runner up for the CEAP project.
Alternate Recommendation 2:
Another direction / course of action as specified by Council.
______Sabina FooFat Planner
Attachment A: Proposal Scoresheet – Panel totals.
Attachment B: Holland Barrs Planning Group and Associates Proposal for Squamish Community Energy Action Plan
Attachment C: Amended budget – September 19, 2007
2007 Squamish Community Energy Action Plan – award contract Annex ‘B’ CONSULTING SERVICES PROPOSAL EVALUATION FORM SUMMARY Point totals for each consultant are an average of the points given by all evaluators. Proposal Name: Squamish Community Energy Action Plan Date: September 20, 2007
Factor Weight AVERAGED CONSULTANT POINT TOTALS out of 100
Cons. #1 Cons. #2 Cons. #3 Sheltair Holland Barrs Stantec / reSource
Capability 25 17.8 22.2 21.8
Methodology 40 27.6 36.3 26.9
Historical 20 12.8 16.7 15.9 Performance
Sub-Total 85 58.2 75.2 64.6
Fees $136,000 + 6,000 $145,000 $145,000 (with reduced components)
Cost Points * - 15 *Sheltair reported the lowest cost, by removing components of the RFP, n/a including public consultation and the Municipal Buildings Strategy.
Total Points 85 58.2 75.2 64.6 * Note: The lowest cost proposal receives 15 points. Other proposals are awarded points as follows: District of Squamish
Community Energy Action Plan Proposal
Submitted by:
Holland Barrs Planning Group Suite 505, 318 Homer St Vancouver, BC V6B 2V2 T: 604.688.9769
In association with:
Bunt Engineering Suite 1812, 1177 West Hastings St Vancouver, BC V6E 2K3 T: 604.685-6427
Compass Resource Management Suite 200, 1260 Hamilton St Vancouver, BC V6B 2S8 T: 604.641.2875
Eco-Industrial Solutions Suite 501-318 Homer St Vancouver, BC V6B 2V2 T. 604.737.8506
Shaun Martin Consulting 2840 West 11th Ave Vancouver, BC V6K 2M1 T: 604.789.1095
West Coast Environmental Law 1001 - 207 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC Canada, V6B 1H7 T: 604.684.7378
September 10, 2007
Table of Contents
1. OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROJECT ...... 3
2. OUR TEAM, OUR EXPERIENCE AND YOUR MASTER PLAN ...... 6
3. OUR APPROACH...... 13
4. METHODOLOGY AND SCOPE OF WORK ...... 17
5. SCHEDULE...... 35
6. BUDGET ...... 37
APPENDIX A. REFERENCES ...... 38
APPENDIX B. FIRM PROFILES AND RESUMES...... 39
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1. Our Understanding of the Project
olland Barrs Planning Group has assembled an H interdisciplinary team of some of the region’s foremost energy and policy experts to work with District of Squamish Council, staff and community stakeholders to forge an innovative, new sustainable energy pathway.
1.1 Goals
The Request for Proposals to develop a Community Energy Action Plan entails the following:
• Develop a 5-10 year Master Action Plan for practically implementing and monitoring a series of projects and strategies that also need to be prepared, specifically:
o Smart Growth Block Catalyst Project Plan; o Distributed Electricity Network Catalyst Project Plan; o District Energy System Catalyst Project Plan; o Multi-Modal, Multi-Fuel Transportation Hub Catalyst Project Plan; o Energy Efficiency Strategy for New Buildings; o Energy Efficiency Strategy for Municipal Buildings.
• A Regional Energy Collaborative would be developed to harness the government and community stakeholders necessary to turn this plan into reality and a discussion paper on this new institution must be prepared.
These deliverables are intended to help the District meet a range of GHG and sustainable energy targets, some of which are amongst the most ambitious set by a government:
• Achieve four visionary targets: dramatically reducing per capita emissions, driving demand side and local sustainable energy supply solutions • Meet and ideally exceed the Kyoto targets, as laid out in the 12 Step Pledge; • Meet the BC government’s six bold targets for building energy efficiency.
The district recognizes a local sustainable energy agenda can simultaneously advance multiple priorities:
• Promoting community economic development by redirecting energy expenditures towards local businesses, including sustainable energy industries; • Reducing local GHG contributions to climate change; • Improving community livability by increasing pedestrian friendly, mixed use neighbourhoods; • Strengthening energy security by reducing dependence on outside energy sources; • Protecting public health by reducing air pollution, primarily driven by vehicular traffic.
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1.2 Local Context
Against this backdrop, there are important population, employment, mobility, and housing considerations with significant energy and climate implications. While initially foreboding, each one of these realities can be transformed into an opportunity:
• Squamish’s population of 15,000 (2005) is expected to double by 2030 with new residents requiring mobility and housing, and seeking employment; • One-third of the workforce currently commutes to Whistler or Greater Vancouver, putting per capita transportation emissions and expenditures above the provincial average; • The greatest share of emissions (64%) is from light duty passenger vehicles, much higher than the provincial average; • More than 60% of housing stock is single detached homes which are tend to be less thermally efficient and in lower density, more automobile-oriented developments; • Employment in traditionally important natural resource sectors has been on the decline and this is forecast to continue; • The community’s annual energy expenditure is approximately $52 million, almost all of which leaves the community.
The District has done considerable groundwork to supports heading down this new energy pathway through the Smart Growth on the Ground Concept Plan and the community energy consultation and visioning process, Bridging to the Future – the genesis for this RFP. This desire for change is also represented by the District’s Growth Management Plan current revisions to the Official Community Plan.
1.3 Regional and Global Context
There are a number of important regional and global developments that converge with the District’s vision, including:
• The Premier has established an aggressive GHG reduction target of 33% below current levels and early indications suggest significant roles for municipalities; • Plans by BC and other jurisdictions regionally and internationally suggest carbon will begin to have a price, creating economic opportunities for emission reductions; • BC’s electricity supply is tightening and there is an increasingly profitable policy framework for sustainable energy; • Globally, petroleum prices are expected to continue rising, with significant economic implications to long distance commuters and automobile-oriented communities.
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1.4 Challenges
There are notable challenges associated with Energy Action Plan and the District’s ambitious targets:
• While within the bounds of technical feasibility, the economic and political challenges of reducing per capita GHGs by 85% to the one tonne per annum visionary target are significant. • Historically, policies developed by local governments have often driven energy intensive urban design; aligning new sustainable energy policies with the District’s existing policies will require visionary leadership and tenacity. • While local government decisions influence the majority of GHGs, the plans of many ambitious and successful local governments have been confounded by slow progress or conflicting priorities by senior governments whose decisions also have significant influence. • Bending the transportation emission trajectory is a critical element in overall GHG emission reduction. It is likely that additional transportation measures outside of the scope of this project will be needed to fully address regional transportation emissions. • Council and community input and staff engagement significantly strengthen the success of community energy plans. This RFP would need to be a high District staff priority to get a top quality plan under the prescribed timelines. • Given that the District’s emission growth is similar to BC’s as whole, the reductions necessary to achieve the Kyoto target are close to 30% over current levels within 5 years, stretching capital stock (buildings, appliances, energy systems etc.) turnover rates very ambitiously.
1.5 Opportunities
Preliminary local analysis, as well as our critical understanding of existing technologies and practices, indicates significant potential for phasing in a series of increasingly sustainable energy systems to move decisively towards the District’s targets. Tapping into the power and imagination of Council, staff and the community and gaining support from senior levels of government and other key stakeholders will be decisive in the Plan’s success.
Our team has the technical, strategic and project management skills required to help the District translate its vision into reality. Our team is interested in working with you because our ambitions for advancing sustainable energy, climate protection and community economic development are as great as the District’s.
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2. Our Team, Our Experience and Your Master Plan
ur team has the skills, knowledge and professional experience to work with the District, key O stakeholders and the community to turn innovative ideas into realistic achievable plans. It is composed of leading practitioners in their fields.
• Trent Berry, BC’s single most experienced feasibility analyst and utility design advisor for district energy systems. • Rob Barrs, one of BC’s leading Smart Growth planners with significant experience working with governments and developers taking innovative projects from concept to approval stage; • Alex Boston, one of Canada’s most knowledgeable sources on local government climate program best practices; • Paul Dorby, one of the region’s most experienced planners in smart growth, multi-modal transportation hubs; • Bud Fraser, one of the region’s top specialists in sustainable infrastructure systems and an experienced project manager; • Mark Holland, who set up the City of Vancouver’s Sustainability Office and led development of Canada’s most successful community-wide climate plan; • Shaun Martin, one of the region’s most experienced building efficiency, technical and policy analysts; and • Susan Rutherford, one of BC’s foremost experts in municipal law and sustainability, including sustainable energy.
Forging synergistic collaborations is part of what defines Holland Barrs. While this specific team has never been assembled, we all have a rich history of working together. Five of the six firms, for example, are currently working for the US Conference of Mayors, US Green Building Council, Clinton Climate Initiative and a dozen leading local governments to build a deep emission toolkit for US cities.
2.1 Knowledge, Skills and Pragmatism
With significant experience inside local governments and utilities, and work with developers, energy firms and other stakeholders, we know not only what has to be done, but how to do it.
We possess the knowledge and skills to successfully deliver on the District’s multi-faceted energy plan and maximize implementation success. These knowledge and skill sets include:
Integrated energy and greenhouse gas planning: worked for local governments, developers, senior governments and utilities in developing and implementing sustainable energy and greenhouse gas management plans.
Sustainable energy supply systems: experienced in assessing the potential, and technical and economic feasibility of low or zero carbon energy supply systems (distributed and centralized), including the design of new private and municipally-operated utilities.
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Energy efficient buildings: served public and private sector clients in efficiency design, modeling, LEED and CBIP certification, retrofits, energy and resource analysis, policy development, and market transformation.
Smart growth neighbourhoods: involved in developing LEED ND and retained by local governments and developers to plan and implement mixed-use, high-density, highly connected and complete neighbhourhoods with low transportation and building emission profiles.
Transportation innovation: developed DSM and fleet management programs, and integrated land use and transportation plans; and undertook policy analysis for low-carbon fuel switching and low emission vehicle market transformation.
Economic and industrial development: worked for local governments and developers to integrate CED priorities into local sustainability agendas, and facilitated implementation of eco- industrial networks to optimize resource, energy and infrastructure use.
Governance: experienced designing and developing new innovative institutions, and working with existing institutions to develop new structures, processes, and legal/policy frameworks to advance sustainability agendas.
Stakeholder and citizen engagement: designed and delivered a wide range of public participation programs, public education and outreach programs to strategically targeted stakeholders and broad public audiences to effectively and efficiently meet project objectives.
Capacity building: worked for developers and local governments to identify and build the skills and knowledge required to design and implement new, large policy shifts such as climate change or sustainability agendas.
Project management: Holland Barrs has significant experience developing effective and efficient systems for planning, communicating and reporting to clients, and in particular managing large multi-firm teams to minimize costs and maximize service value.
Squamish knowledge: worked for a wide range of local clients including the District, developers, and other public institutions like Quest University on transportation planning, geothermal energy systems, Smart Growth On The Ground, and the Oceanfront development.
2.2 Team Roles
Team members will be strategically deployed to maximize their contribution in specific areas with some focused creative discussion with the majority of the team. The following matrix identifies the roles each member will play. There are three types: 1. Project Lead 2. Policy or Technical Analyst and 3. Strategic Advisor. The order reflects level of involvement.
Holland Barrs’ Senior Engineer, Bud Fraser, will serve as the Project Manager. Bud has significant experience managing interdisciplinary teams with both technical and strategic dimensions.
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The following profiles underscore the core competencies of each member of our team. More complete biographies can be found under Firm Profiles and Resumés in Appendices.
Holland Barrs Planning Group – RFP Lead
Rob Barrs, Principal, Senior Planner
Rob is is a LEED® accredited planner with significant experience working with local governments and developers taking sustainability projects from concept to final approvals. He is currently working with Westmana Development Corporation on the Waterfront development (if this activity emerges as a conflict of interest, Rob’s role could be taken over by another HB senior planner). Rob would be the Smart Growth Block lead and apply his deep understanding of innovative processes and policies as Strategic Advisor on the Transportation Hub and Master Plan.
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Alex Boston, Senior Climate & Energy Policy Analyst
Alex served the David Suzuki Foundation as senior climate policy analyst. He has a deep understanding of the institutional underpinnings of successful local government climate and energy programs which will be applied as Lead for the Regional Energy Collaborative and as Strategic Advisor on the Buildings Strategy and the Master Plan.
Bud Fraser, Senior Engineer (Project Manager)
Bud’s rich experience managing interdisciplinary teams on technical and strategic projects will be applied as overall Project Manager. His knowledge of green buildings and sustainable infrastructure systems will be tapped as Technical Analyst on the Smart Growth Block and Buildings projects and strategic advisor on the District Energy System.
Mark Holland, Principal, Senior Planner
Mark’s cross-cutting appreciation of sustainable energy systems, governance understanding, work inside local government and with developers, and leadership on large multifaceted sustainability projects will be integrated as a Strategic Advisor on key sub-projects. His current experience working with leading US cities on climate and energy strategies, particularly Albuquerque’s long- term carbon neutral city-wide strategy will be informative.
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Paul Dorby, Senior Transportation Planner
Paul’s familiarity with the District of Squamish, and recognized expertise in demand management and land-use / transportation planning, will ideally position him as the Project Lead for the Multi-Modal Transportation Hub and as a strategic advisor on the Smart Growth Block.
Compass Resource Management
Trent Berry, Principal, Senior Energy and Resource Economist
Trent will apply his unparalleled experience in district energy system development and deep knowledge of sustainable energy supply and electricity and utility system issues as Lead of the District Energy System and Distributed Electricity Network projects. His rich appreciation of innovative policy and financing schemes will also be integrated into the Regional Energy Collaborative and Master Plan as an advisor
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Taylor Zeeg, Energy Policy Analyst
Taylor has advised BC’s 30 CAEE communities and been involved in feasibility studies of a number of small scale low or zero carbon systems for local governments. He will apply his knowledge of policy instruments available to local governments to advance energy efficiency as Strategic Advisor on the Residential New Build and Municipal Buildings projects. He will also provide research and analysis on the Distributed Electricity Network.
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Wendy LeBreton, Research Coordinator
Wendy’s advanced knowledge in industrial and commercial building efficiency and infrastructure systems will be used as Policy and Technical Analyst on the Building Strategy. Her understanding of ecoindustrial networking will be applied as Strategic Advisor on the District Energy System.
Shaun Martin Consulting
Shaun Martin, LEED AP, Principal
Shaun will be the Lead on the Energy Efficiency Building Strategy for new buildings and the existing and new municipal stock. He will apply his in-depth experience working with developers and governments on policy, process, modelling, technical/financial feasibility for energy retrofits and new energy efficient buildings.
Elisa Campbell, B.A., B.Arch, LEED AP
Elisa has been actively involved Squamish’s Smart Growth on the Ground project as Director of the UBC Design Centre for Sustainability. Her local knowledge and keen technical and policy experience in smart growth planning and energy efficiency buildings will be applied as Policy Analyst on the Smart Growth Block and strategic advisor on Buildings.
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Susan Rutherford, Staff Counsel, Liveable and Sustainable Communities Program Lead
Susan’s cutting edge analysis of the opportunities and limitations for advancing sustainability in infrastructure, buildings and land use under the Local Government Act will be applied as Strategic Advisor in the Smart Growth Block, Transportation Hub and Community Energy Master Plan, and as Policy Advisor in the Residential New Build and Municipal Buildings projects.
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2.3 Your Projects, Our Professional Experiences
The breadth and depth of our knowledge and skills has been acquired over a wide range of projects. To underscore how these professional experiences match the specific needs of the sub- projects in the Community Energy Action Plan, selected projects are matched in the matrix below. A more comprehensive list of projects is in the Appendices under Firm Profiles.
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3. Our Approach
ur approach minimizes risk, maximizes cost effectiveness, taps into Council, staff and O community insights and aspirations, and builds capacity for successful implementation. Our approach can be broken down into its three dimensions: engagement, technical and strategic.
3.1 Engagement Approach: Collaborative and Participatory
Effective engagement results in stronger plans, enriched understanding about challenges and opportunities, and increased ownership. Three principles shape our approach: think long term, act short term; use efficient and effective processes; and respect and respond to input.
Our experience in planning and implementing new policy agendas indicates Council and senior management engagement is vital. Focused staff engagement from across and down line departments enables agendas to be more rapidly integrated into regular District activity. Greater staff involvement also allows us to more strategically deploy our resources in areas where the District will get greatest value. Effective citizen engagement is essential to harness and build the community’s intellectual, social and financial capital and give the agenda vitality.
Our process begins with collaborative planning between the Holland Barrs project manager and the District’s client representative. One of the first tasks is establishing an internal Sustainable Energy Steering Committee composed of representatives from key departments and senior management. This body ideally reports to senior management and periodically briefs council, potentially with Holland Barrs support.
Based on Holland Barrs’ preliminary work planning, the Steering Committee and a Holland Barrs team executive would collaboratively refine the tasks, scope of deliverables, processes, timelines, and also confirm key stakeholders for engagement.
Key community stakeholders would be engaged in working groups around the sub-project themes. Sub-project consultations would be dovetailed to maximize synergies around these project themes and develop efficiencies in terms of participation. Council and staff would be encouraged to participate in this series of highly interactive consultations.
Input would be integrated into and help shape Holland Barrs research, analysis, and reporting along with review and revisions from the Steering Committee. The final Master Plan would be presented to Council and shared in briefings with staff and community stakeholders who participated in the process.
We are not recommending a large community wide consultation. We feel the nature of the information and engagement needed to meet the RFP’s objectives is most effectively achieved through targeted stakeholder activity. If the District requires community wide consultations, we would have to narrow the scope of the extensive list of deliverables. We do, however, strongly recognize the importance of broader citizen engagement, and strategies will address this priority in each of the sub-project plans and the Master Plan.
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3.2 Technical Appro ach: Practical and Innovative
Innovations that push normal conventions are needed to address the four visionary targets and position Squamish as a North American sustainable energy champion. At the same time, our team recognizes that practical, realistic steps are needed to build foundations for moving forward in manner that is technically and economically feasible.
An integrated, whole systems approach considers demand, supply and disposal, and interconnections and dependencies between different systems and functions and their spatial situations. Identifying opportunities associated with these interconnections and their locations enables a more efficient, cost effective and sustainable network of services.
Incorporating principles of flexibility and adaptation is critical so that the District can adapt to future changes in supply, pricing, regulations, and environmental considerations of energy systems, minimize risk, and take advantage of future technology developments.
To reach the visionary targets, a wide range of strategies will need to be developed and pursued:
• Planning and design strategies that reduce vehicle kilometres travelled, improve the modal mix, and increase fuel switching opportunities; • Planning and design strategies that support efficient building forms, siting and infrastructure systems; • Exploiting a full range of low and zero carbon energy supply and energy displacement systems and networks; • Buildings, infrastructure and energy systems that are intelligently interconnected and optimized to realize maximum benefit.
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Low impact renewable energy systems will be immediately deployable in some situations. Technical and economic feasibility will influence how high to low to zero carbon pathways will unfold in a range of electricity, heat and mobility applications. Deployment will take into account potential for accelerating capital stock turn over patterns.
3.3 Strategic Approach: Capacity Building
In business and in government, new policy agendas confound well-established institutions. The technologies and practices to cost effectively halve Squamish’s greenhouse gas emissions in a generation exist today. The greatest challenge is not technological. It is institutional.
Making big energy system shifts involves understanding these institutional barriers inside government and out in the community. They include everything from constant, rapid electoral cycles to the failure to account for the human health cost of burning fossil fuel. Capacity building inside government and the community is aimed at developing new structures, processes, knowledge and policies to overcome these barriers. The following areas are particularly important.
Innovative financing: The top barrier staff managing community energy programs identify is financing. Part of this challenge is a sheer lack of revenue for new programs. The other limitation is often associated with how infrastructure investments are normally evaluated.
We will work with the District to recommend innovative financing mechanisms to support sustainable energy systems and financial analysis tools that could enable the District to strengthen fiscal performance and asset management.
Integrated positioning: Successful sustainable energy and climate programs have situated these priorities within an agenda that resonates with core local government and community priorities and values. Less successful programs have often emphasized abstract issues that fail to capture the imagination of their constituents.
Through the consultations and the implementation plan, we can help the District build on its efforts to connect to the economic, social and also environmental priorities to develop a story that Council, staff, and citizens will be excited to support. It will be told through words and images associated with the catalyst projects and the overall agenda.
Strategic program management: Climate and energy issues, in particular, cut right across traditional line departments. Projects are often difficult to squeeze into normal electoral cycles. The market barriers for many innovations are significant. How do staff confront these challenges?
We will provide strategic advice that will consider structures and processes that have worked effectively in other jurisdictions and the District’s unique culture and organizational design.
We can provide a theoretical framework that leading local governments have used to help with the market transformation process for energy efficient buildings, infrastructure systems and smart growth neighbourhoods. The catalyst projects are well suited and can be buttressed by other measures to help jump start efforts and build momentum for a meaningful long-term agenda.
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4. Methodology and Scope of Work
4.1 Overarching Methodology
he extensive work accomplished to date on energy issues for Squamish as referenced in the T RFP is the genesis of the six individual projects A-E that cover a broad scope of work. This scope presents opportunities for progress on a range of fronts, and also presents logistical and project management challenges in terms of carrying the work out in an efficient, coordinated manner. Recognition of the project management component and final report as a distinct piece of work in the RFP confirms the importance of this aspect.
The overall process for the master project is illustrated in the figure below.
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Phase I - Orientation and Work Planning will produce with the District’s client representative and the Sustainable Energy Steering Committee a detailed work plan that will include identification of stakeholders and structuring of working groups. This focussed collaborative planning process will allow a thorough consultation and task schedule to be built.
Phase II – Sub-Project Tasks includes the tasks and deliverables of each sub-project, which will be discussed in more detail in Section 4.3.
Phase III – Integration will bring together deliverables from the sub-projects, as well as deliverables specific to the Project Management section of the RFP, to create a draft master project report.
Phase IV – Final Review and Presentation will refine and deliver the final report, and present the results.
4.2 Consultations
Within the master project, each sub-project will have its own set of deliverables, tasks, and personnel contributing. At the same time, there will be significant overlaps and synergies between projects. Overlaps will include the project team members and stakeholders that will work on multiple projects. As a result, the most efficient work plan will be to schedule some of the consultations and collaborative tasks on the same day, so that the same group can achieve multiple objectives, and maximum synergy between projects can be gained.
An initial strategy for sequencing and combining working group sessions to gain efficiencies and cross-pollination between sub-projects is illustrated as follows, with three main meeting sessions, each dealing with the subprojects as highlighted by an “X”. The final detailed schedule for meetings will be developed during the first phase of the project as discussed above.
Consultative Sessions Flow
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4.3 Project Management
The Project Manager will manage the master project, and provide these core functions:
• Fulfillment of deliverable and schedule commitments; • Coordination of project team members; • Interfacing with the District project manager (and staff where appropriate); and • Integrating the project outputs into a cohesive final report
Ideally the Sustainable Energy Steering Committee will mirror the Holland Barrs Team by having sub-project leads that interface to coordinate their respective projects and the overarching project management is lead collaboratively by the District and Holland Barrs project managers.
In addition, HB’s project management process will:
• Work to a streamlined project management framework that makes efficient use of the District staff and stakeholder time, and • Maximize synergies between different project elements and consultant skill sets to achieve multiple objectives
Keys to achieving the above will be efficient, effective project communications, clear delineation of responsibilities, and clear definition of project and sub-project objectives. Flexibility to adapt to changes and developments during the project is also essential.
The scope of work for the master project and final plan includes:
• A 5 to 10 year action plan; • Monitoring and modeling procedures and methodologies; and • Accountability procedures for performance targets (MEMPR and four long term targets).
After project kickoff, the detailed work plan and schedule will be developed in tandem with the stakeholder identification and final structuring of the steering committee and working groups.
The following sections outline the initial proposed methodology and scope for each of the component sub-projects.
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4.3 Sub-Project Methodology and Scope Project A. Smart Growth Block Catalyst Plan
Project Lead Rob Barrs, Holland Barrs Planning Group Project Establish a project plan that moves Smart Growth from concept stage to the Objective design of a block utilizing a portfolio of sustainable energy efficiency systems and land use/design efficiencies. • Attract key partners to collaborate with the District to practically and effectively realize this objective. • Situate this block in a high profile downtown area to maximize educational value for professionals and the public. • Use this demonstration project as an incubator for developing skills and knowledge in new building and planning techniques, interdisciplinary design and District policy and protocol development. • Making significant progress on Kyoto and the District’s one tonne challenge will require a profound transformation in urban design and lifestyle expectations for new and existing Squamish residents – this catalyst project can demonstrate the allure of mixed-use, energy-efficient, pedestrian friendly living. Catalyzing • Successfully demonstrating consumer demand for Smart Growth Role development, and that the additional upfront costs are paid off in social, environmental, economic and publicity benefits, can help break ground for other developers, big commercial/institutional tenants and residential customers to follow. • While some headway has been made in advancing the concept of integrated land-use and transportation planning, this Smart Growth Block would add design and infrastructure planning as the third critical ingredient in advancing sustainability. • With such a large portion of the District’s emission driven by transportation, this project can begin shifting expectations about the central passenger automobiles play in contemporary urban design. Important The block should be designed with consideration to various technological Issues innovations that may be incorporated post-market, like solar thermal roofs. This project could serve as the gateway to the Oceanfront development and a prominent anchor in efforts to gain LEED ND certification. To attract one or more private developers, the District may have to offer significant individual attention and carefully consider benefits for gaining participation. In order to be a useful catalyst, significant project dimensions should be replicable or contribute to an iterative process of continuous improvement.
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Consultation Given the district energy system and renewable grid will impact the Smart Highlights Growth Block, consultations on this sub-project will occur subsequently. This also permits time for more extensive project development activity and one on one meetings with prospective developers and tenants to unfold. Stakeholders to consult with include tenants like Capilano College, developers/landowners like Westmana, the Oceanfront Development Corporation, other universities including Quest, DFO if ocean geoexchange might be considered, District planning, engineering and economic development offices, contractors and builders. Key tasks Review history related to the Smart Growth Block and preliminary efforts to initiate work. • Examine similar case studies in other jurisdictions. • Flesh out preliminary parameters with the District for block typologies. • Develop preliminary briefing material to attract tenant, landowner and developer interest and a strategy with the District for approaching these firms. • Identify potential sites and approach owner(s) of these sites, potentially including greenfield, brownfield and retrofit/infill, or combinations thereof, and potential anchor tenants. • Conduct consultation to refine scope of Smart Growth block initiatives. • Conduct preliminary economic and technical analysis of potential initiatives that include discussion of technologies, infrastructure systems, buildings, streetscapes, greenspace and broader connectivity patterns; and their energy and GHG implications. • Work with District, landowners, developers and tenants to select and prioritize measures. • Carry out further research of District policies and protocols to support Smart Growth Block implementation. Major Develop a project plan that includes the following: deliverables • Narrowed lists of potential blocks, landowners, developers and anchor tenants, technology partners that can be considered and considerations for securing them. • A discussion of various Smart Growth Block typologies • Guidance for District staff in developing policies and protocols to support the project. • A strategy for building public and private support for this project. • Discussion of funding sources and financial instruments and analysis that can support implementation, including District income generating opportunities from the project.
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Project This block could be the convergence of every element in the Community Energy synergies Plan as part of the district energy system, generating electricity through from renewable sources, high efficiency buildings, connectivity to the transportation hub and potentially housing the secretariat for the Regional Energy Collaborative.
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Project B-1: Distributed Electricity Network
Project Lead Trent Berry, Compass Resource Management Project Squamish has identified several catalyst projects intended to provide Objective infrastructure to help achieve its energy targets for buildings. These projects are intended to change how buildings are connected to each other, and to relevant infrastructure systems. These catalyst projects will explore enabling policies and innovative institutional arrangements to achieve these ends. One of the additional catalyst projects is the creation of a small-scale demonstration of a responsive, local network for electricity – a network where electricity may be generated locally at several different locations – house, vehicle, river, wind – to meet local needs while still ensuring reliability and security of supply. Work with collaborative partners and make recommendations to revise policies related to utility hook-up fees, development cost charges, property assessment, design guidelines, financing arrangements, and maintenance of joint facilities Catalyzing Distributed electricity generation can contribute to reductions in GHG emissions Role (if local electricity sources have a lower GHG emission profile than grid supply) and to Squamish’s goals of being energy self-sufficient and even a net positive energy producer. There are also possible linkages with district energy (via co-generation) and also linkages to provincial self-sufficiency goals (in the latest Energy Plan). Important There are several ways of conceptualizing a distributed energy network. One Issues involves physically distinct local grids with discrete connections to the provincial grid (so-called micro-grids). Another involves a “virtual grid” that based entirely on smart meters. Both approaches have different pros and cons and their advantages depend in part on local institutional constraints. It will be important in this project to contextualize the proposal in the context of existing utility and provincial energy policies. Net metering is already available throughout B.C. that allows individual customers to implement on-site (behind the meter) electricity production while using the grid to bank surplus and meet deficits. As part of the recently updated provincial Energy Plan, BC Hydro has announced a standing offer for small generators (<10MW) to sell power directly to BC Hydro under a posted price. There are no existing policies that allow individual retail customers to purchase electricity from off-site providers or to share on-site production among individual sites. Under current legislation, customers would need to be aggregated under a new utility. These issues will be explored as part of this catalyst project.
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Consultation Stakeholders will be identified early on in this project but key ones will include BC Highlights Hydro, Independent Power Producers, and the District. Key Tasks Develop a backgrounder fleshing out the concept and how it fits into the existing legislative and institutional constraints within the province. The backgrounder would include references to other examples of such approaches where relevant. Focussed consultation workshop (key technical and institutional stakeholders) to review concepts, issues, policies and innovative institutional arrangements. This workshop would include a discussion of an appropriate definition of a Phase 1 towards this catalyst project. Follow-up research arising from ideas and feedback at workshop. Final report on concepts, issues, policies and innovative institutional arrangements, together with a summary of Phase 1 of the steps required to achieve this catalyst project. Final presentation at broader stakeholder workshop. Major Backgrounder on distributed electricity network concept Deliverables Final report on concept, issues, policies and institutional arrangements. Summary presentation package. Project Synergies with district energy project (co-generation) Synergies Synergies with smart growth block (other development policies) Capacity building in helping Squamish and local stakeholders better understand the broader context for electricity supply and delivery in the province in order to support future participation in this area.
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Project B-2: District Energy System
Project Lead Trent Berry, Compass Resource Management Project Squamish has identified several additional catalyst projects intended to provide Objective infrastructure to help achieve its energy targets for buildings. These projects are intended to change how buildings are connected to each other, and to relevant infrastructure systems. These catalyst projects will explore enabling policies and innovative institutional arrangements to achieve these ends. One of the additional catalyst projects is the creation of a district energy system that evolves in parallel with the waterfront developments, and that begins by providing buildings with hot water from natural gas boilers, and evolves into electrical co-generation powered primarily by biomass. Work with collaborative partners and make recommendations to revise policies related to utility hook-up fees, development cost charges, property assessment, design guidelines, financing arrangements, and maintenance of joint facilities. Catalyzing District energy based on biomass can contribute to reductions in GHG Role emissions and to Squamish’s goals of being energy self-sufficient and even a net positive energy producer. There are also possible linkages with the distributed electricity network project (via co-generation) and also linkages to provincial self-sufficiency goals (in the latest Energy Plan). Important The staging of infrastructure is critical to the successful implementation of Issues district energy. Use of natural gas boilers in the short-term is very helpful in ensuring long-term viability. However, there are challenges associated with the use of distributed boilers (versus a single energy centre) and with the manner in which the community distribution system is implemented. We have observed these challenges first hand in the North Vancouver System. The terms of reference suggest immediately switching from natural gas to biomass co-generation. That may be possible but there is another interim step that could be beneficial, namely biomass heating without cogeneration. The economics of biomass co-generation are different from biomass heating and depend in part on the scale of the system (larger scale is typically required to optimize for co-generation) and the value of electricity. The source(s) or biomass and the energy conversion technology (e.g., combustion vs. gasification) are also critical considerations in developing an implementation path. The implementation path for this catalyst project needs to take these various issues into account.
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Consultation Stakeholders will be identified early on in this project but key ones will include Highlights BC Hydro, Terasen, Independent Power Producers, and the municipality.
Key Tasks Develop a short backgrounder fleshing out the concept and how it fits into the existing legislative and institutional constraints within the province, as well as available technologies. The backgrounder would include references to other examples of such approaches where relevant. Focussed consultation workshop (key technical and institutional stakeholders) to review concepts, issues, policies and innovative institutional arrangements. This workshop would include a discussion of an appropriate definition of a Phase 1 towards this catalyst project. Follow-up research arising from ideas and feedback at workshop. Final report on concepts, issues, policies and innovative institutional arrangements, together with a summary of Phase 1 of the steps required to achieve this catalyst project. Final presentation at broader stakeholder workshop. Major Short backgrounder on district energy concept (addressing some of the issues Deliverables identified above) Final report on concept, issues, policies and institutional arrangements. Summary presentation package. Project Synergies with distributed electricity network project (co-generation) Synergies Synergies with smart growth block (other development policies) Capacity building in helping Squamish and local stakeholders better understand the broader context for electricity supply and delivery in the province in order to support future participation in this area.
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Project B-3: Multi-Modal, Multi-Fuel Transportation Hub
Project Lead Paul Dorby, Bunt and Associates Engineering Ltd Objective • Build on the work already developed for the transportation hub in Squamish, e.g. from the Concept Plan for the Downtown Waterfront area. • Create a master plan that provides a seamless interchange for pedestrians and cyclists; bus, rail, air and ferry passengers; and that it is closely integrated with the downtown street system and land uses. • Develop a phasing strategy that will grow as transportation priorities / opportunities change and which is receptive to advances in low or zero carbon fuels and new drive train technologies. Catalyzing • Stimulate and encourage a higher profile for walking, cycling and transit use Role in Squamish. • Provide more positive transportation choices for Squamish in order to reduce private automobile use. • Reduce the District's reliance on non-renewable fossil fuels by acting as a springboard for significant modal shifting, alternative passenger automobile ownership and use patterns, fuel switching and electric drive train transformation. Important Ensure that the master plan is consistent with Smart Growth on the Ground Issues principles. Aim to provide a seamless exchange between pedestrian connections, trailways, road-based transportation, and rail, air and water movements, as well as alternative passenger vehicle use models such as car sharing networks and car pooling. Integrate the transportation hub within the urban area so as to create a convivial and dynamic passenger interchange. Identify land uses and facilities that will complement and enhance the vitality and functionality of the hub such as a bicycle hire / repair shop, tourist kiosk, café, bookshop, etc. Assess the opportunities for alternative fuel sources for the short, medium and long term horizons, and ensure the hub design is receptive to these changes. Consultation Likely stakeholders to engage include: BC Transit; CN Rail, Ministry of Highlights Transportation; Squamish Trails Society, Potential Fast Ferry Operators such as HarbourLynx, District of Squamish and Alternative Fuel Promoters (Ballard, Westport Innovations, hydrogenhighway.ca, etc), as well as some key academics or think tank representatives with a deep appreciation of alternative fuels and drive trains. Key Tasks • Collect information and views from the groups to be consulted. • Develop area wide plans highlighting existing and future networks for
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trailways, roads / bridges, rail operations, bus routes and ferry connections for Squamish. • Review and summarize the existing travel patterns in Squamish from existing sources. • Assess the potential options for new bus routes and the opportunities / constraints for rail passenger services. • Prepare concepts plans to show how all the transportation modes can integrate within the hub. • Develop a conceptual master plan showing how the hub could be developed in phases and be integrated with the surrounding land uses. • Investigate the opportunities for alternative fuels, including bio-diesel, cellulose ethanol, hydrogen / fuel cell, plug in gas-electric / electric vehicles, and demonstrate how their fuel requirements can be accommodated in the most sustainable manner. • Provide broad estimates on the potential of the transportation hub to reduce oil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions within the District of Squamish. • Outline how the transportation hub can help change residents and employees transportation patterns in Squamish. Major • Present exhibits showing existing and future transportation connections with Deliverables the transportation hub in place. • Produce a concept plan showing the layout of the transportation hub, its integration with pedestrian and cycling routes, the location of supporting land-uses, fuel storage locations, bus waiting facilities, bicycle storage, etc. • Prepare a report that: covers the key issues and findings of the study, presents the design rationale and sets out an action list to further develop the plans to the next stage(s). Project The Transportation Hub will need to be closely linked with Distributed Electricity Synergies Network and other energy distribution networks so as to accommodate the demands in particular for gas-electric / electric and fuel cell vehicles. Any buildings would be highly energy efficient and could include micro renewables linked to the Electricity Network. There would be connectivity to the Smart Growth Block.
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Project C: Regional Energy Collaborative Discussion Paper
Project Lead Alex Boston, Holland Barrs Planning Group Objective Provide strategic guidance for creating a Regional Energy Collaborative. Catalyzing While not a formal “catalyst” project, the Regional Energy Collaborative would Role play a powerful catalyzing role in advancing a sustainable energy agenda by harnessing and building the intellectual, social and financial capital of all levels of government and important community stakeholders. Important Some of the key issues to examine include defining alignment of potential Issues members particularly around energy targets, composition itself, partnership agreements, the mandate (e.g. climate mitigation or adaptation, too), governance structure, potential short/med and long term agenda items, secretariat requirements, long-term financial and organizational sustainability, geographical focus. There is an increasing presence of institutions with multi-level governance dimensions and representation from key community stakeholders to drive sustainability agendas, including innovative local climate and energy bodies. Some of these best practices should inform discussion. If the District fully realizes its deep emission reduction goals, there is potential for financing further reductions through offset sales. The Collaborative or a body it oversees could manage offset sales and recycle revenue into further projects. Various carbon trusts being developed could inform this discussion. Consultation Through the Master Project’s consultative process and interviews, a wide range Highlights of potential Collaborative members would be consulted, including utilities, academic institutions, key business and trade associations with energy implications, provincial/federal/municipal players, non-profit organizations Key Tasks • Review the history and current activity behind this initiative. • Identity examples of other similar institutions and their salient features. • Develop a short discussion brief on essential elements of the collaborative and questions to resolve to confirm with the District. • Identify an sample to further examine collaborative as per Consultation Highlights, as well as key institutions with governance and mandate insights, e.g. Fraser Basin Council and EarthCare Sudbury. • Develop a line of enquiry for interviews and integration into each one of The Master Project’s consultations. Major Prepare a discussion paper that explores and makes recommendations for Deliverables development of the Collaborative, including an action plan with resourcing considerations for continuing organizational development. Project Given the critical role the Collaborative could play in advancing the District’s Synergies Four Visionary Targets, it has synergies with each of the other sub-projects.
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Project D: Energy Efficiency for Buildings Strategy: New Build
Project Lead Shaun Martin, Martin Consulting Project Develop a strategy to advance energy efficiency in new buildings through a Objective thoughtfully phased in series of policies, incentives and regulations, engagement and capacity building activities in the District and private sector. This strategy would meet the following provincially endorsed targets: • Achieve an EnerGuide for New Houses rating of 80 for 100% of new detached single-family and row houses by 2010; • Achieve energy performance 25% better than the Model National Energy Code for 100%of new multi-unit residential buildings by 2010; • Achieve energy performance 25% better than the Model national Energy Code for 100% of new commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings by 2010. Catalyzing The new buildings strategy can precipitate a series of changes, particularly when Role understood as part of a market transformation strategy. Making significant strides towards the Disctrict’s Four Visionary Targets will only be achieved with early action. Developing, or mandating changes within the construction market requires evolutionary action in order to be successful. Important In a regional context, the BC Government is about to propose changes to BC Issues Building Code to mandate specific levels of performance. Municipalities such as Vancouver have long required conformance to a specific energy standard. Other jurisdictions throughout North America are considering and are implementing policies and regulations intended to meet similar building efficiency goals. Opportunities exist to understand the lessons being learned in these other jurisdictions. Technically, there are few, if any, barriers to meeting these goals. Practical, local context solutions become known fairly quickly as policies begin to take effect. Capacity building would include strengthening knowledge amongst Squamish civic employees (particularly plan checkers and inspectors) in GHG and energy efficiency issues; and raising awareness amongst local companies that first to market players will create significant market opportunities. Consultation Potential stakeholders will be sought to provide early feedback on the proposed Highlights policy actions. This will likely consist of key individuals from the District of Squamish, and local contractors and homebuilders associations. Other key jurisdictions will be approached to obtain a better understanding of implementation issues. Key Tasks The key elements in achieving the completion of the major deliverables are: • Review District and private sector activity on energy efficient building practices as they relate to new buildings.
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• Research and assembly of outstanding examples of each of the RFP deliverables, leaning heavily on our deep understanding of activity in all other CAEE communities. • Analysis, draft preparation and adaptation to the District of Squamish. • Policy development, with reference to lessons learned in other jurisdictions and the outstanding examples collected in the research phase. • Identification of innovators with whom to concentrate early activity with including developers in commercial and residential sector, and high profile institutional and commercial building tenants. • Consultation and feedback from various stakeholders. Incorporate this feedback into the documents. Major The following documents will be developed within the context of a strategy to meet Deliverables longer term goals expressed in the Visionary Targets. Specific policy changes, institutional considerations such as staffing and protocols, and adoption timing will be included in the recommendations: • New Housing Best Practices Guide* • New Housing Construction Guidebook* • Multi-unit Residential New Building Energy Efficiency Policy • Multi-unit Residential New Buildings Permit Checklist • Commercial New Building Energy Efficiency Policy • Commercial New Building Permit Checklist • New Energy Efficiency Learning Guide • Energy Efficient Construction Resource Lists Project Demand reduction is a critical first component of a strong Community Energy Plan, Synergies and a necessary consideration for all other projects within the RFP, notably the Smart Growth Block. It would be used to showcase advances, strengthen policy and build capacity on energy efficiency buildings.
*Recognizing that there is value in locally specific construction practices, it is recommended that existing resources be utilized to the maximum extent appropriate so that the project budget can be used most cost effectively.
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Project E: Energy Efficiency for Buildings Strategy: Municipal Sector
Project Lead Shaun Martin, Martin Consulting Project Develop a strategy to advance energy efficiency in new civic buildings and retrofit Objective existing stock through a thoughtfully phased in series of policies, incentives and regulations, engagement and capacity building activities. The strategy would meet these District-endorsed targets: • New Buildings: Achieve energy performance 25% better than Model National Energy Code for Building by 2010 and reduce average Energy consumption 20%. • Existing Buildings: Reduce the energy consumption in 20% of existing buildings by an average of 14% by 2010. Catalyzing Municipal buildings strategy can precipitate a series of changes within the local Role market. As long-term owners of significant buildings, municipalities can show leadership and capacity building with the region. Making significant strides towards the District’s Four Visionary Targets will only be achieved with early action – public and private. Developing, or mandating changes within the construction market requires evolutionary action. The municipal retrofit strategy could inspire development of policies and programs for commercial and institutional retrofits, notably underscoring the monetary benefits. Important Politically, the District of Squamish must show strong leadership in order for Issues energy efficiency goals to be met on a community-wide basis. The targets endorsed by Squamish should be seen as minimum acceptable results, with efforts made to surpass these targets in some instances. An important objective is promoting success stories, to invigorate local action. Technically, there are few barriers to meeting these goals. Practical, local context solutions become known fairly quickly as policies begin to take effect. • Capacity building would include strengthening knowledge amongst Squamish civic employees (particularly plan checkers and inspectors) in GHG and energy efficiency issues; and raising awareness amongst local companies that first to market players will create significant market opportunities. Consultation District of Squamish staff input is critical to the success of municipal energy Highlights efficiency action planning. Preferred equipment suppliers, engineering consultants, and possibly contractors will be contacted for input and feedback on installation issues and costs. Key Tasks To achieve the targets the following tasks will be completed: • Undertake an inventory of existing municipal buildings, their floor area, energy and water consumption, and expected lifespan. Identify energy and water indicators in terms of usage per unit area; • For buildings that will have a 7+ year lifespan, undertake an ‘energy audit
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report card’, and an inventory of energy efficiency upgrades to meet the targets; • Develop an energy efficiency policy and plan for upgrades on existing municipal buildings; • Develop an energy efficiency policy for development and construction of new municipal buildings; The following list of Municipal Buildings, will receive detailed analysis of energy and water consumption reduction potential: 1. Municipal Hall 2. Squamish Public Library 3. Squamish Drop in Centre 4. Squamish Arts Council building. 5. Nexan building (Squamish Oceanfront offices) 6. Forestry Building 7. Adventure Centre 8. Squamish RCMP Building 9. Brennan Park Leisure Centre 10. Operations Office 11. Works Yard Vehicle Repair Facility 12. Dog Pound A separate report will be issued for each building containing the following details: 1. Executive Summary • Overall results and recommendations including a summary table of results for all upgrade measures studied. 2. Energy Costs • Utility rates (energy and demand steps) used in the study. • Overall building energy use (kWh/yr), and cost ($/yr). • Overall building energy use intensity (kWh/ft2.yr), and cost ($/ft2.yr). • Energy disaggregation (cooling, heating, interior lighting, HVAC equipment, plug loads, refrigeration, exterior lights, vertical transportation, DHW, cooking, and other), monthly energy use and peak electrical demand. 3. Building Description • Building type, size, number of floors, orientation • Number of occupants, occupancy schedule • Building Envelope details – assembly construction details, percentage glass • Mechanical Systems – system types, capacities, efficiencies, performance
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curves, operating hours, service life, ventilation rate • Process and plug loads (W/ft2) – types and power densities for significant areas, equipment data, schedules • Lighting – types, lighting levels for significant areas, luminaire inventory, schedules • Control system and strategy 6. Upgrade Analysis • For each upgrade measure: o Description of the energy savings opportunity. o Describe the baseline against which the measure is compared. table of results for all measures studied containing the name of the measure , capital costs, annual energy and demand savings, simple payback, discussion. o Estimates of other benefits and savings, such as maintenance cost savings, non-energy benefits (production/performance, occupancy, comfort, sales, etc.), environmental benefits like reduced emissions, air quality, material selection, waste reduction, recycling… 13. Recommended Implementation Policy and Schedule: • Include a schedule of critical tasks, including tender date, construction timeline, commissioning and occupancy. Major The following documents will be prepared within the context of phased in strategy Deliverables working towards the longer term goals expressed in the Visionary Targets. Specific policy changes and adoption timing will be included in our recommendations. • Municipal Buildings Energy Inventory • Energy Studies on key existing municipal buildings • Energy efficiency implementation policy and plan for existing buildings; • New Municipal Buildings Energy Efficiency Policy • The Inventory, Energy Studies and Implementation recommendations will be presented as a combined document. Because of the synergies involved, the New Municipal Buildings Energy Efficiency Policy will be combined and included under Project D of this RFP. Project Policies recommended under this project should be in complete agreement with synergies the objective of Project D.
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5. Schedule
The proposed project schedule is shown in the following figure.
Based on a contract award date of September 28, 2007, the project deliverables could be completed by the February 28, 2008 deadline. However meeting and exceeding the RFP’s ambitious objectives may also potentially be strengthened with an extended timeline. Evidence from local government community energy planning reveals two relevant findings around timelines. One, level of municipal staff, council and community engagement influences the sense of ownership over the plan and its quality. And two, a critical factor in determining level of engagement and quality is sufficient time to carry out the planning, consultation and analysis.
The project team will work with the District toward meeting the schedule expectations for the overall project and for specific elements such as CAEE deadlines.
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6. Budget
The following table shows the total project cost, and the estimated breakdown by firm, consultant, and sub-project. Estimated expenses and disbursements are also shown. All costs shown are exclusive of applicable taxes. It is also assumed that the District will provide project-related meeting venues and facilities in Squamish.
It is likely that assumptions made during the RFP budgeting will need to be adjusted during the project; priorities and efforts required to complete different elements across the sub-projects will likely change. It is therefore recommended that the District consider some flexibility in the budget allocation between projects, while maintaining the same overall project budget.
Note: there is a discrepancy in the RFP – the total budget is listed as $145,000 however the summation of individual project budgets is $155,000; HB has used the last figure for budgeting but would be happy to discuss adjustments to the project scope and budget with the District if the project budget must be limited to the former figure.
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Appendix A. References
Norm Shearing Development Manager Parklane Homes Tel: 604.632.727 Project: East Fraser Lands Development Project (Holland Barrs)
Ian Smith Senior Planner City of Vancouver Tel: 604.871.6857 Project: Southeast False Creek Model Sustainable Neighbourhood (Holland Barrs)
Rowan Birch Assistant City Engineer, Departmental Services City of Vancouver Tel: 604.873.7280 Email: [email protected] Project: District Energy System Feasibility Study and Utility Design (Compass)
Shelley Murphy Director of Electricity Policy BC Ministry of Energy Tel: 250.952.0264 Email: [email protected] Energy planning (Compass)
Anders Rahmberg Quadra Pacific Consultants Tel 604 688 8651 Energy Modeling – Vancouver General Hospital; Embassy Developments (Shaun Martin)
Jim Thompson ED Williams Engineering Tel 780 409 3143 City of Edmonton energy audits (Shaun Martin)
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Appendix B. Firm Profiles and Resumes
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Firm Profile
The Firm
Holland Barrs Planning Group (HBPG) is a planning consulting firm whose specialty is making sustainability real for the development industry and all levels of government. Since opening our doors in 2000, we have quickly become recognized as leaders in developing innovative responses to the design and policy challenges of our time.
Together with staff planners, Rob Barrs, Mark Holland, and Vince Verlaan bring to our clients dedication to detail and commitment to a strategic, creative approach. We emphasise interdisciplinary work, multiple-objective thinking, and the creation of value for project stakeholders. Our philosophy is to develop client-centred solutions that respond to the unique set of issues presented by each project.
HBPG has expertise in public policy, community planning, urban design, The firm’s office is located in the historic Mercantile Building at the development planning and approvals, public process, project management, corner of Homer St. and Cordova organizational development and green building policy. Both principals are St. on the edge of Gastown. The ™ building and area is home to art LEED accredited professionals. The firm has a proven track record and has galleries, designers, architects, successfully completed many highly complex planning projects for a range of fashion designers, and restaurants. clients including developers, local and senior government, aboriginal communities and NGOs.
Principals Mark Holland B.LA., M.Sc., MCIP, LEED® [email protected]
Robert Barrs B.Sc., M.Sc., MCIP [email protected]
Vince Verlaan, B.A., M.A. [email protected]
Staff Bud Fraser M.A.Sc., P.Eng. Andrea Tower B.En.D. [email protected] [email protected]
Alex Boston Anne-Marie Whittaker B.Sc., M.L.A. [email protected] [email protected]
Peter Russell B.A.Sc., M.Sc. Janine De la Salle, B.A., MA [email protected] [email protected]
Peter Whitelaw B.Sc., M.Sc. Frances Tang-Graham [email protected] [email protected]
Joaquin Karakas, B.A. MAP [email protected]
Office David Bishop Manager [email protected]
Location Suite 504 - 318 Homer St. Vancouver, BC, V6B 2V2, Canada
Web www.hollandbarrs.com
Professional Services
The success of our firm lies in our ability to develop strategic and innovative responses to a range of planning and development issues.
HBPG provides a complete range of planning services: We have significant experience in land use planning from policy development, development planning approvals, sustainability advising and public process.
HBPG’s practice is informed by practical experience and professional education: Our experience and expertise enables us to quickly identify issues and recommend ways of approaching them. We have an intimate understanding of the processes which affect decision making on planning matters at every level. HBPG provides expertise in the following areas:
1 Sustainable Development Policy, Advising & Strategy The firm takes pride in assisting clients to understand and articulate sustainability policies tailored to the unique aspects of their projects.
2 Municipal & Regional Planning The firm works with municipalities on traditional planning topics and also to develop strategies for creating sustainable, liveable communities.
3 Development Planning & Advising The firm has experience guiding clients through the development process for broad land use decisions as well as detailed re-zonings and development permits.
4 Resort Planning The firm provides resort communities with sustainable development strategies including exploring options for green buildings, renewable energy systems, and ecological conservation.
5 Green Infrastructure, Biodiversity, and Sensitive Ecosystems The firm assists organizations in the development of green infrastructure strategies and practical tools for ecosystem protection.
6 Public Participation, Consultation & Facilitation The firm’s experience with developing guidelines for participatory processes is based on a foundation of experience working with the public in innovative ways.
7 Community Energy Planning The firm has experience completing policy and research related to community energy planning processes.
8 Urban Design The firm has worked on multi-disciplinary teams for several urban design projects with developer and municipalities.
9 Industrial Ecology & Eco-Industrial Planning The firm has extensive experience developing implementation strategies and policy frameworks for eco-industrial networking both in Canada and abroad.
10 Organizational & System Development The firm offers organisations advice and expertise with regards to operational policy, strategy, and planning.
11 First Nations Planning The firm offers experience in land management, procedural development and institutional re-organization to First Nations
communities.
12 Transportation Planning The firm assists clients to understand land-use & transportation relationships and has worked on DSM and fleet projects.
13 Food & Agriculture The firm has advised municipalities with regard to food systems and sustainability, and how this relates to planning.
14 Green Buildings The firm has two LEED® accredited professionals and offers advice on the development of green buildings as components of more sustainable communities. We have developed green building green development guidelines for municipalities and developers.
15 Research The firm carries out research on a wide range of urban planning and sustainability topics.
16 CPTED Advising & Training The firm has trained and advised on CPTED issues.
17 Educational Projects & Presentations The firm is experienced in sharing sustainability and planning expertise through presentations and other educational methods.
Professional Affiliations
Canadian Institute of Planners Both Mark Holland and Rob Barrs are Members with good standing. Peter Russell and Peter Whitelaw are Provisional Members.
Planning Institute of British Columbia Both Mark Holland and Rob Barrs are Members with good standing. Peter Russell and Peter Whitelaw are Provisional Members.
SmartGrowth BC Rob Barrs has been on the Board of Directors since 2001.
Eco-Design Resource Society Mark Holland is the Vice-President of the organisation since 2001.
Community Energy Association Mark Holland has been a board member since 1998.
Canada Green Building Council Member Both Mark Holland and Rob Barrs are LEED® accredited professionals.
The Eco-Industrial Group (EIG) The firm is a formal member of the Eco-Industrial Group, a consortium of engineers, planners, and ecologists who work together on national and international projects utilizing the principles of Eco-Industrial Networking. EIG brings HBPG together with the following firms: Eco-Industrial Solutions Ltd. (Vancouver, BC), and ERIN Consulting Ltd. (Regina, SK).
Projects: Sustainable Development Policy, Advising & Strategy
The City of Albuquerque Sustainability Strategy Client: The City of Albuquerque, New Mexico Project: A comprehensive sustainable development strategy for the City of Albuquerque addressing the following issues: land use; transportation; green buildings; innovative infrastructure; sustainable open space; community facilities and programs; sustainable economic development; and city management. Firm Role: Holland Barrs worked with the Mayor of Albuquerque and city staff to development the sustainability strategy. Special attention was given to building the action plan to achieve the Mayor’s commitment to ensure that all new buildings are GHG neutral and powered by renewable energy (Architecture 2030 Initiative). Assignment Date: 2006 – 2007
Playbook for Green Buildings & Neighbourhoods Client: A consortium including California Energy Commission, Clinton Climate Initiative, ICLEI US, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, US Green Building Council, US Conference of Mayors, US EPA and a half dozen leading local governments Project: Development of a greenprint and toolkit to support US cities in developing practical short, medium and long-term climate action plans with the aim of cutting greenhouse gases from cities by more than half by mid-century. Firm Role: Holland Barrs is leading a team of consultants from Canada and the US to develop the tools, case studies, model ordinances and best practices for a web-based resource that will be accessed by elected officials and local government staff. The resource will be a first stop shop that will house new cutting edge guidance on buildings, municipal infrastructure and green neighbourhoods as well as extensive references to resources currently available in other key areas. The Wiki-like interface will enable practitioners to dynamically update the site with the most contemporary developments in the rapidly changing field of climate protection. Assignment Date: 2007
SFU Sustainability Certificate Client: Simon Fraser University, BC Project: The establishment of a professional certificate in sustainable development at Simon Fraser University. Firm Role: Holland Barrs worked with SFU to develop the curriculum and program structure for the professional sustainability certificate. Assignment Date: 2006 – 2007
East Fraser Lands Development Project, Vancouver BC Client: Parklane Homes Project: The project includes the redevelopment of a large parcel of land with multiple owners on the south eastern edge of the City, adjacent the Fraser River. Firm Role: Holland Barrs served as sustainable development advisors on the development planning team. Mark Holland was integral to the planning and design team serving as a sustainability advisor during the preparation of the draft policy statement through to a site concept plan. Mark has participated in open houses and other public consultation exercises representing the client. The sustainability strategy for this project has addressed land use, transportation, East Fraser Lands site along the buildings, urban agriculture, open space, infrastructure, and many other issues. Fraser River, 2004. Currently Holland Barrs are leading the development of a comprehensive urban songbird habitat strategy for the project. Assignment Date: 2002-Present
UBC South Campus, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC Client: University of British Columbia - UBC Properties Trust Project: The project involves the planning and development of nearly 300,000 m2 in the southern part of the UBC campus as a complete community to house and serve nearly 5,000 people. Firm Role: Holland Barrs served as the sustainability consultants on the design team during the planning and consultation process for South Campus, including the development of a sustainability strategy for the project. The sustainability strategy was built around both the strength of the site and of UBC as a world leader in sustainable development, and addressed issues of land use, transportation, buildings, open space, infrastructure, food, community health and commercial development. In addition, Holland Barrs worked with Aplin Martin Engineering to develop an innovative stormwater strategy for the project. Assignment Date: 2004 - 2005
Regional Economic Development Strategy – Fraser Basin Council Client: Fraser Basin Council Project: The development of a regional scale economic strategy. Firm Role: Mark Holland guided a discussion and developed a report on strategic policy directions for the economic strategy. Assignment Date: 2005
Lethbridge Sustainable Subdivision Client: City of Lethbridge, Sheltair Project: Develop recommendations and guidelines for greening an existing (planned but not built) subdivision and a future subdivision incorporating best practices of sustainable design and green infrastructure. Firm Role: Planning advisors and co-authors of report. Assignment Date: 2005
Alpha Creek Lands, Whistler, BC Client: OKA Holdings and IBI Group Project: Mixed use, commercial/residential/live work project. Firm Role: Developed a sustainability strategy and report to support re-zoning application. Assignment Date: 2005
Holborn Lands, Whistler, BC Client: The Holborn Group Project: Mixed use, residential/recreational project including rehabilitation of existing watercourse, energy efficient buildings, and walkable community design. Firm Role: Holland Barrs developed a sustainability strategy for the project, advising on aspects of walkability, parking, urban form, open space and energy efficiency. Assignment Date: 2005
Sea to Sky University, Squamish BC Client: Sea to Sky Foundation Project: Sea to Sky University, Canada’s first secular, not-for-profit and self- sustaining institution, is located in Squamish, BC on a 97-hectare (240 acre) site. The university will eventually teach and house 1,200 students. The site will also be surrounded by a mixed-use community with 1,000 units. Firm Role: Holland Barrs served as the sustainable development advisors on the design team and completed a “sustainability strategy” that included a comprehensive review and recommendations of sustainability opportunities for the project. This included scoping and screening of renewable energy options, Sea to Sky University Campus site layout options and green building approaches, ultimately leading the Concept Plan, 2005. design team and board of directors though a series of key decisions on green Plan completed by: Hotson Bakker development. Holland Barrs also advised on alternative development standards Boniface Haden Architects for new roads Assignment Date: 2003 – 2005
Sustainability Strategic Planning Workshops for Whistler Client: Resort Municipality of Whistler Project: Develop and deliver a number of workshops that review reports on sustainable development and economic success and integrate them into public discussions, policy and decision making processes, and the QUEST sustainability scenario computer modelling tool developed by Envision Sustainability Tools. Firm Role: Holland Barrs worked with Abbott Strategies on developing the workshop resources and executing the workshops. Assignment Date: 2002
Mark Holland served as the project coordinator of the policy statement for Southeast False Tax Shifting for Sustainability: Fiscal Strategies for Municipalities. Creek while working as a Planner Client: Northwest Environment Watch BC (now Centre for Integral Economics) at the City of Vancouver. Project: Complete a study on strategies for municipalities to change taxation, levy and fee policies to support more sustainable development patterns. The report provided a toolkit for municipalities to use to address tax shifting. Firm Role: Holland Barrs completed research and prepared the strategy. Assignment Date: 2001
Sustainable Development Prototype Client: Busby + Associates Architects Project: Develop planning principles and practices for a “prototype” of a sustainable development building and planning model for the GVRD and Industry Canada.
Firm Role: Mark Holland was the planner on a multi-disciplinary team led by Busby + Associates Architects. Assignment Date: 2001
Southeast False Creek Waste and Water Management Plan Client: Keen Engineering / City of Vancouver Project: Develop both a sustainable water management strategy and waste management strategy for Southeast False Creek. Firm Role: Holland Barrs served as the planners on a multi-disciplinary team. Work included considering water flows, waste flows, developing options and recommendations for management and physical design of this plan for a model sustainable urban neighbourhood in the City. Assignment Date: 2001-02
Ecologically Appropriate Housing, Chilliwack BC Client: Ley Properties
Role: Research and site design of ecologically appropriate housing Southeast False Creek Water and opportunities for developer with several sites in Chilliwack, BC. Waste Management Plan, 2001. Assignment Date: 1997
Projects: Municipal & Regional Planning
Core Neighbourhood Sustainability Action Plan, Regina, SK Client: City of Regina, SK Project: The Core Neighbourhood Sustainability Action Plan involves integrated planning and design efforts to address social, environmental and economic issues in a Regina inner city neighbourhood. The project also produced a sustainable development plan for a key site. Firm Role: Holland Barrs designed and facilitated the planning process with the use of innovative engagement and planning techniques such as community mapping, a design charrette and an integrated design process. Assignment Date: 2006 – 2007
Gospel Rock Neighbourhood Area Plan, The Town of Gibsons BC
Client: The Town of Gibsons, BC Project: Holland Barrs is currently leading the development of a neighbourhood plan for 125 acres in Gibsons, BC. The objective of this project is the development of a sustainable neighbourhood area plan for a visually stunning, ecologically rich, and culturally sensitive site. Firm Role: Holland Barrs is leading a multidisciplinary team of technical and design experts through an extensive planning and public consultation process including a community mapping workshop, a public visioning process, public open houses, and design charrettes.
Assignment Date: 2005-2006
Gospel Rock Neighbourhood Plan
Projects: Development Planning & Approvals
Cumberland Interchange Lands, Cumberland, BC Client: Trilogy Properties Corporation Project: A proposed mixed-use development project adjacent to the Village of Cumberland on Vancouver Island. The project incorporates various forms of residential and commercial development including a walkable neighbourhood centre and large areas of protected open space. Firm Role: Holland Barrs assisted with planning, public consultation and managing the integration of sustainability issues for the project. A community mapping workshop was designed and facilitated to allow community members to provide input about the site early in the process. Holland Barrs also assisted with master plan development, ensuring that sustainable approaches to land use, transportation, stormwater management, green buildings were integrated into the plan. Assignment Date: 2005 – 2006
North Denman Lands, Denman Island, BC Client: North Denman Lands Inc. Project: A conservation based community plan for 2200 acres including the significant donation of ecologically sensitive lands and enhancement of the working landscape. Firm Role: Holland Barrs are serving as planners, sustainable development advisors, and public process facilitators. Assignment Date: 2006 – 2007
Hudson Bay Redevelopment Project, Victoria, BC Client: Townline Ventures Project: A heritage redevelopment project for the Hudson Bay site and heritage building in Victoria, BC. The mixed-use development includes extensive heritage preservation, green building design, and sustainable transportation initiatives. Firm Role: Holland Barrs served as sustainable development advisors for the project, including work such as facilitating a green building workshop for the design team. Assignment Date: 2006 – 2007
Seylynn Village, North Vancouver Client: Hynes Realty Project: An innovative mixed-use development project located in North Vancouver that plans to include several sustainable design features such as cutting-edge energy technology, alternative transportation, and green buildings. Firm Role: Holland Barrs serves as a sustainable development advisor, providing innovative strategies to the client and the design team. The HB team has also designed and facilitated workshops on green buildings and LEED certification systems. Assignment Date: 2006 – 2007
Triangle Mixed-Use Community Development, Port Coquitlam Client: Townline Ventures Project: The development of a 300 acre comprehensive mixed-use lifestyle centre, including retail shops, services and low- and high-rise apartments. The Development Guidelines outline a plan for the development to be innovative, pedestrian and bicycle friendly, and designed and built using sustainable planning, design and development practices. The project design addresses issues of social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Firm Role: Holland Barrs served as sustainable development advisors, facilitated a green building workshop for the design team, and developed green building and sustainability design guidelines. Assignment Date: 2006 - 2007
Nelson Comprehensive Development Plan, Nelson BC Client: Central Waterfront Enterprises Inc. (CWE Inc.) Project: Develop a comprehensive development plan for a key 1-hectare parcel of land on the City of Nelson’s waterfront. The project involves a due diligence study, concept development, a stakeholder design charrette and facilitating public consultation, leading to a master plan. Firm Role: Holland Barrs led a team comprised of an architect and development consultant.
Assignment Date: 2004-2005 Team discusses site issues during Nelson waterfront charrette, BC. 2004 Block 62 Civic District Development Project, North Vancouver BC Client: Brook Development Consulting / City of North Vancouver DevelopmentDevelopment Strategy Strategy Workshop Workshop BlockBlock 62 62 Redevelopment Redevelopment Project: The project includes the development of two residential high rises, a City of North VancouverCity of North Vancouver new library and community facilities, and an expansion of City Hall. Prepared by: Firm Role: Holland Barrs were sustainable development advisors on a planning Prepared by: team completing the development strategy for the Block 62 Civic District.
Maurice J. Ouellette Assignment Date: 2002 ConsultingMaurice Ltd J. Ouellette CornerstoneConsulting Architecture Ltd and PlanningCornerstone Group Architecture and HollandPlanning Barrs Group Planning Group Holland Barrs Planning Group
Block 62 Report Beach Neighbourhood Rezoning, Vancouver BC Client: Busby + Associates Architects Project: Rezoning areas of the Beach Neighbourhood in False Creek North for the Concord Pacific Development Corp. Firm Role: Holland Barrs served as planners on a multi-disciplinary team led by Busby + Associates. Assignment Date: 2002
22nd/23rd Ave Project, North Vancouver BC Client: Pottinger Gaherty Environmental Consultants Ltd / Fred Adab Architects Project: Rezoning of a development parcel in the City of North Vancouver for a residential densification project replacing single family with multi-family housing near schools and a town centre. Firm Role: Holland Barrs served as the sustainable development advisors on a team. Assignment Date: 2002
Sloan Subdivision, Village of Thamesford Ontario Client: Loy-El Sloan Developments Inc; Development Engineering (London) Ltd Role: Rob Barrs coordinated the re-zoning and plan of subdivision approvals (from design concept to final approval) for a 96 acre, $15 million, mixed-use subdivision featuring a diversity of housing and a continuum of care (single family, town-homes, senior’s apartment building, nursing home, recreation centre). The project included the management and resolution of complex environmental issues including a stormwater infiltration system, mitigating the risk of groundwater contamination, and protection of a wetland. Assignment Date: 1999 - 2001
501 Second Street - Infill Development Planning Project, London Ontario Client: ATH Group Inc; Development Engineering (London) Ltd Role: Rob Barrs designed the site plans and managed the public process for residential infill projects in London, Ontario, for the purpose of increasing density in existing residential areas in a manner sensitive to the local character. Assignment Date: 2000 - 2001
Avalon Street Development Project, London Ontario Client: Werner Humann; Development Engineering (London) Ltd Role: Rob Barrs coordinated the planning process to secure Official Plan Amendment, rezoning, and plan of subdivision for highly complex 2 acre brownfield site with multiple land use constraints, including adjacencies with CN Rail, a lumber yard, an auto-body shop and single-family residential development. Innovative solutions were achieved through a complex negotiation process, including implementation of alternative development standards, reduced sewer infrastructure requirements, innovative storm runoff management system and noise abatement measures. Assignment Date: 1999 – 2001
Projects: Resort Planning
Revelstoke Mountain Resort Client: Revelstoke Mountain Resort Project: Revelstoke Mountain Resort is intended to be a resort community that models the principles of sustainable community development. The Resort Team is actively pursing a vision of sustainable development (including options for renewable energy, low impact transportation, and ecological conservation), positioning the resort as a new standard for responsible resort development in BC. Firm Role: Holland Barrs serves as sustainable development advisor, providing innovative strategies to the client and the design team. The HB team has also designed and facilitated workshops on green building and renewable energy systems. Assignment Date: 2006 – 2007
River Rock Resort, North Carolina
Projects: Green Infrastructure, Biodiversity, and Sensitive Ecosystems
Green Infrastructure and Sensitive Ecosystems Bylaws Toolkit Client: Deborah Curran and Company (with Wetland Stewardship Partnership, Ducks Unlimited, Grassland Conservation Council) Project: The Green Infrastructure and Sensitive Ecosystems Bylaws Toolkit provides local governments (municipal and regional) practical tools for protecting susceptible components of ecosystems within communities. The toolkit provides different approaches to achieving ecosystem protection through various regulatory tools including OCPs, tax exemptions, and zoning bylaws. Firm Role: Rob Barrs assisted in authoring the toolkit document, in addition to facilitating a workshop for the development of the toolkit components. Assignment Date: 2006
Projects: Public Participation, Consultation & Facilitation
Citizen’s Forum on Sustainability Client: City of Kelowna Project: Community Sustainability Forum The project involved the design and facilitation of a public Citizen’s Forum on Sustainability and website for the Central Okanagan region. The initiative’s objective was to educate citizens on issues related to sustainability and raise their awareness about how they might be involved in the community-wide discussion. Firm Role: In addition to managing an interdisciplinary team, Holland Barrs provided expertise in sustainability. Citizen engagement involved the development of a highly inclusive, collaborative, and dialogic process including an educational website with an interactive online poll and a facilitated event using the World Café format for 200 people. The Citizen’s Forum on Sustainability allowed Central Okanagan citizens to more broadly explore what sustainability means and provided a foundation for future action on sustainability in the region. Assignment Date: 2006 Website: www.FUTUREOK.ca
Arbutus Lands Visioning Process Client: Canadian Pacific Railway Project: The intention of the Visioning Process is to generate a series of community-driven visions for sustainable future uses of the Arbutus Lands, a historic rail corridor running through the west side of Vancouver. Firm Role: Holland Barrs’ role in the Arbutus Lands Visioning Process includes extensive public consultation and facilitation, advising on sustainability and providing strategic advice. The project has involved engaging a team of highly respected land use professionals, academics and sustainability experts to oversee the process; facilitating a series of community Co-Design workshops in partnership with the Co-Design Group; holding several community open houses; Arbutus Lands Visioning Process and leading a 3-day design charrette. Assignment Date: 2005 – present
Saline Creek Neighbourhood Design Charrette, Fort McMurray, AB Client: Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo Project: Assisting the development of a sustainable community plan for a key expansion site immediately outside of the Ft. McMurray Lower Townsite. Firm Role: Peter Russell of Holland Barrs designed and facilitated a charrette process and event for the development of the sustainable community plan. Assignment Date: 2006
Whistler’s Comprehensive Sustainability Plan Workshops Client: Resort Municipality of Whistler / Abbott Strategies Firm Role: Mark Holland worked with Abbott Strategies during the summer and early fall of 2002 to develop and deliver key workshops for the RMOW in support of their development of a comprehensive sustainability plan. Assignment Date: 2002 Website: www.whistler.com
Participation Tools & Practices Manual, Southeast False Creek Sustainable Community Charrette Report Client: Canadian Mortgage & Housing Corporation Project: Outline the range of policy issues and urban design solutions that each team developed from the Southeast False Creek Charrette. Role: Mark Holland organized and coauthored a CMHC report on the Southeast False Creek Charrette, while a planner at the City of Vancouver Assignment Date: 2000
Sustainable Urban Development Charrette Manual Client: The ORCAD Group; CMHC Project: Develop a manual for CMHC on the development and management of charrettes for sustainable urban development projects. Participation Tools & Practices Firm Role: Holland Barrs served as the planners on a team. Manual, 2001. Assignment Date: 2000-01 Reference: Fiona Crawford, The ORCAD Group Inc.
Public Participation Manual Client: The ORCAD Group Inc; CMHC Firm Role: Mark Holland served as the planner on a multidisciplinary team led by the ORCAD Group to develop a public participation resource manual aimed at sustainable urban development projects. Assignment Date: 2001-02
Projects: Community Energy Planning
Energy Strategy and Workshop, Revelstoke Mountain Resort Client: Revelstoke Mountain Resort Project: A Green Energy Strategy for a world-class, all-season resort development in BC is being developed, based on a workshop held with a diverse group of team members. Content includes sustainability goals, energy standards, rating systems, energy efficient building design strategies, incentives and financing, and district energy systems. Firm Role: Holland Barrs worked with Compass Resource Management, Shaun Martin Consulting, other energy consultants, and energy utilities to develop the energy strategy. Assignment Date: 2007
Integration of Air Quality-related Planning Processes Study Client: Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection Project: The purpose of this project was to assess the potential benefits and challenges of integrating Community Energy Planning, Air Quality Management Planning and Greenhouse Gas Action Planning into a single planning process. An analysis of the similarities between and potential synergies of the three planning processes was completed as well as detailed case studies of 10 communities which had undertaken more than one of these planning processes. From this analysis flowed a series of recommendations for both municipalities and senior governments. Firm Role: Holland Barrs led the research effort that included Marbek Consulting. Assignment Date: 2004
BC Hydro Community Energy Planning Program Client: BC Hydro Project: Develop a comprehensive Community Energy Planning program. Firm Role: Mark Holland worked with BC Hydro staff to research the organization, analyse of trends in CEP processes, and provide recommendations on priorities and opportunities for CEP within BC Hydro. Assignment Date: 2004 - 2005
Southeast False Creek Community Energy Plan Client: Compass Resource Management / City of Vancouver Project: Develop an innovative community energy plan for a model high density sustainable urban neighbourhood in the City of Vancouver. Firm Role: Holland Barrs served as the planners on a multi-disciplinary team. Work included assessing multiple energy supply and management strategies, assessment of targets, review of energy dimensions of water and waste management strategies and recommendations for site development planning to increase energy efficiency. Assignment Date: 2001-2002
Educational Presentations on Community Energy Planning Client: Community Energy Association Firm Role: Mark Holland has developed and given many presentations on behalf of the CEA, of which he is a Board Member, to many BC communities on the issues of energy in communities and how they are planned and developed. Mark has led a strategic planning process with the Committee over the past year to map a path for CEA to become the premier discussion and information forum for communities and energy in BC.
Projects: Urban Design
Design Guidelines and Visual Preference Survey Client: District of Saanich Project: Completed a process with the District of Saanich to make necessary OCP changes and undertake a public consultation process, building awareness about and seeking input into the development of principles and design guidelines. A main objective of this project is to develop a set of clear, succinct, and easy to understand design principles and guidelines that will be supported by a variety of diagrams and sketches. The Design Principles and Guidelines will bring the District’s OCP into conformity with the Capital Regional District’s RGS, and will encourage the creation of highly liveable and desirable compact, mixed-use, and walkable urban villages and centres in the locations identified. Firm Role: Holland Barrs organized and coordinated a visual preference survey workshop, reported out on survey results, and developed urban design guidelines and principles. Assignment Date: 2006 – 2007
Bracken Arms Estates, Squamish, BC Client: Westmana Development Corporation Project: The development of architectural guidelines for a 28-unit, single-family residential development in Squamish, BC. Firm Role: Holland Barrs developed guidelines to control the character and materials of the buildings and lots to ensure a consistent, high quality development. Green building information resources were provided in a homeowner’s package. Assignment Date: 2005 – 2006
Foot of Lonsdale Study, North Vancouver BC Client: Busby + Associates Architects / City of North Vancouver Project: A planning study on development options for the foot of Lonsdale Ave in the City of North Vancouver. Firm Role: Holland Barrs coordinated a multi-disciplinary team. The firm’s work also included site assessment, due diligence, planning analysis and options development, site programming and the coordination of a large study team. Assignment Date: 2001-02
The False Creek North Cambie Bridgehead Urban Design Study, Vancouver BC Client: Busby + Associates; Concord Pacific Developments. Project: Site planning of a 400,000 ft² site adjacent to the northern foot of Cambie Street Bridge located near BC Place Stadium in downtown Vancouver. The project focused on developing a 1.1 million ft² commercial concept for the site in support of the landowner’s work to amend the site’s Official Development Plan. Firm Role: Mark Holland served as the planner on the design team lead by Busby + Associates Architects Foot of Lonsdale Quay artistic Assignment Date: 2000 rendering.
Artist: Adam Slawinski
New Town Design Competition, Clarendon, Jamaica Client: Jamaica / Busby + Associates Architects Project: International competition for the design of a new town in Jamaica for 100,000 residents. Highlights of the submission included an urban core, a wide range of housing including a squatter-management strategy, significant greenway / bicycle greenway network, community agriculture, wind and solar power generation system, surface and marsh-based water management and a street layout that was based around the topography for water management strategies. Firm Role: Holland Barrs were the planners and sustainability consultants on a multi-disciplinary team that tied for 3rd place. Assignment Date: 2000 Reference: Peter Busby, Principal, Busby + Associates, 604-684-5446 New Town Concept, Clarendon, Jamaica
Huai Rou New City Master Plan Plan completed by: Busby + Associates Client: Ekistics Town Planning / Capitol Properties Corp., Beijing, PRC Role: Peter Russell served as an urban designer on the design team lead by Ekistics Town Planning for the master planning of a 2000-acre “New City” site. The new city was envisioned to be the new home of some 150,000 residents. The project focused on developing a Transit-Oriented Development master plan concept for the new town along with two other development concepts presented by Ekistics Town Planning. The master plan concept included one large multi-modal transit hub along with two smaller transit served village centres Assignment Date: 2004
Huai Rou New City, PRC - Land Use Diagram, 2004.
Projects: Industrial Ecology and Eco- Industrial Planning
Master Development Plan for an Eco-Industrial Park, Fort McMurray, AB Client: Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, AB Project: The preparation of a Master Development Plan for a 65 acre Eco- Industrial Park in the rapidly developing Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, AB. The project developed a plan for an environmentally efficient and sustainable industrial park. Firm Role: Holland Barrs worked with the team leader Eco-Industrial Solutions to develop green infrastructure features and sustainable design approaches. Assignment Date: 2006 – 2007
Hinton Eco-Industrial Park Client: Eco-industrial Solutions/Town of Hinton Project: The development of a new industrial park based on the principles of Eco-industrial Networking. Firm Role: Advise on Planning and Green Building Issues, developing zoning bylaw amendment and development guidelines. Assignment Date: 2004 - 2005 Hinton Site Plan
Maplewood Community Eco-Industrial Partnership Project (“The Maplewood Project”), North Vancouver BC Client: District of North Vancouver / Industry Canada / Others Project: The objective of the Maplewood Project was to develop ideas and identify practical steps to integrate and enhance all aspects of the community, increase the sustainability of the entire community and help Maplewood realize its potential in a more sustainable fashion. Maplewood is a particularly unique neighbourhood in that it contains a large industrial area surrounded by a quaint residential and commercial village. Adjacent and running through the area is a large wild bird sanctuary, an escarpment and a creek.
Firm Role: Holland Barrs worked with a multi-disciplinary team to launch a Maplewood concept plan from sustainable community design charrette for the Maplewood neighbourhood in Team #3 form the Maplewood Eco-Industrial Networking & the District of North Vancouver that included the innovative dimension of Community Design Charrette, 2003. integrating Eco-Industrial Network into the design strategy. Mark Holland led the community consultation process and facilitated a 3-day community design charrette. Peter Russell completed audits of the industrial operators, worked with local college students to complete a bioregional atlas, coordinated the charrette logistics and worked on the final report for the project. Assignment Date: 2001 - 2003
Maplewood eco-industrial A Development Protocol for Developing an Eco-Industrial Complex networking opportunities, Final Report, Maplewood Project, 2003. Client: Mark Jeffrey Consultants / Industry Canada Project: Develop a protocol for the creation of eco-industrial complexes Firm Role: Holland Barrs were the planners on a multi-disciplinary team. Assignment Date: 2001
Projects: Organizational and System
Development
Green Fleets Accreditation System – Scoping Study Client: Fleet Challenge – BC / Fraser Basin Council Project: The scoping study was part of a larger project to develop and launch a 3rd party accreditation system for green fleet operations in Canada. Firm Role: Holland Barrs is completing a scoping study to assess the administrative and technical dimension of a green fleet accreditation system. Assignment Date: 2004-2005
Manager of Sustainability, City of Vancouver Client: City of Vancouver Role: Mark Holland served a part-time in-house contract with the City of Vancouver, as their first Manager of Sustainability. His role was to coordinate the City’s many sustainability initiatives, particularly those related to the corporate activities of the City. Additional projects include managing the City’s Corporate GHG Reduction Planning and others. Assignment Date: 2003-04
Green Seed Foundation Strategic Plan and Green Village Development Strategy Client: Green Seed Foundation Role: Mark Holland worked with the leadership team of an emerging granting foundation that supports the development of more sustainable developments in small, rural communities. His work has included developing a strategic plan for the Foundation as well as outlining a scope of issues and priorities for the Foundation’s focus of work. Assignment Date: 2003
GVRD DSM Division Strategic Business Plan Update Client: Abbott Strategies / GVRD DSM Division Firm Role: Holland Barrs were members on a team updating the strategic business plan for the Demand Side Management division of the GVRD. Assignment Date: 2002-03
Strategic Organizational Planning Client: Northwest Environment Watch BC / Centre for Integral Economics Role: Mark Holland worked with NEW BC / CIE to develop a strategic plan for the organization, including workshops with staff to create a shared vision, mission statement, goals and objectives, project priorities and approaches to strategic negotiation with key stakeholders. Assignment Date: 2001
Projects: Transportation Planning
Transportation Demand Management: Social Marketing Strategy Client: City of Kelowna/Karyo Communications Project: Develop a social marketing strategy for Transportation Demand Management in Kelowna. The work involved rigorous market research, an innovative public consultation exercise and the development of a matrix/scorecard to evaluate various social marketing options. Firm Role: Rob Barrs served as the planning advisor on the project team and developed an evaluation matrix. Assignment Date: 2003-2004
SkyTrain Extension: Millenium (Port Moody-Coquitlam) Line Client: Herold Development Services Ltd; Rapid Transit Project Office Project: Responsibility for the preliminary design phase of the $730 million SkyTrain extension from Lougheed town centre in Burnaby to the downtown of the City of Coquitlam. Firm Role: Mark Holland served as the planning coordinator on the project management team lead by Jeff Herold from Herold Development Services for the Provincial Transit Corporation, RTP2000. Assignment Date: 2000
Projects: Green Buildings
Green Building Workshops Client: Various development clients Project: Green Building Workshops for clients engaged in development plans including residential, mixed-use, brownfield and heritage redevelopment projects. Firm Role: Holland Barrs designs and facilitates green building workshops with a team of experts in rating systems such as LEED and waste and water engineering. Assignment Date: 2006 - 2007
UBC Environmental Assessment Program (Green Buildings) Incentives Client: University of British Columbia, Campus and Community Planning – Sustainability Office Project: This purpose of this project was to identify incentive opportunities designed to increase the uptake of green building practices and technologies for new residential development on the UBC campus. Firm Role: Holland Barrs completed a rigorous assessment of potential incentives, ranking these using a number of criteria. The project included interviews with developers, a case study analysis, an assessment of impacts, and the development of a comprehensive incentive program including an estimation of implementation costs. Assignment Date: 2004
Assessment of Financial Incentive Programs & Options for Green Buildings Client: Greater Vancouver Regional District, Policy & Planning Division Project: Assess financial incentives designed to increase the uptake of green building practices and technologies for new and retrofit commercial and residential development projects in the GVRD. Firm Role: Holland Barrs completed an assessment of existing financial incentives available in the GVRD and identified gaps that GVRD could address. The work program included a workshop for industry professionals, a detailed case study analysis, and culminated in the identification of preferred financial incentives tailored to the GVRD’s context. Assignment Date: 2004
Successful Precedents in Public Sector Green Building Strategies Client: Mark Jeffrey Consultants / BC Buildings Corporation Project: Develop a report on precedents in excellence of public sector initiatives to promote green buildings across North America. Firm Role: Holland Barrs are the project management company, planners and chief research team for BCBC and MJC. Assignment Date: 2002
Projects: Research
Liveable Lanes: Overcoming Regulatory Barriers to Laneway Infill Housing in BC’s Growing Cities Client: Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation Project: An in-depth research project focused on urban densification in Vancouver. The research was directed towards identifying barriers, developing strategies to overcome these barriers, and to broaden the interest in and understanding of laneway infill housing. In addition to the research element, the project wrapped up with a public forum and workshop on laneway housing, “Affordability by Design.” Firm Role: Holland Barrs developed a report outlining a set of policy strategies and specific actions that can be taken to expand laneway housing based on the opportunities and barriers identified throughout the course of the study. Holland Barrs also partnered with Smart Growth BC and the Vancouver City Planning Commission, holding the workshop and forum made up of housing experts and other housing stakeholder groups. Assignment Date: 2007
Canadian Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Case Study Research Client: Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation Project: Researching and writing successful transit-oriented developments case studies as part of a national publication of for the CMHC. Firm Role: Holland Barrs conducted research through interviewing key planning and development players in five TOD projects across Canada in support of case studies for the CMHC. Assignment Date: 2006 – 2007
Greater Vancouver Green Map and Guide Project: The Greater Vancouver GreenGuide/Map will showcase tangible, visible examples of urban sustainability in action in the Lower Mainland. It will have three interrelated components: a guidebook, a map, and an associated website. The project will communicate to visitors and residents alike that Vancouver is an acknowledged leader in turning sustainable ideas into action. Firm Role: Holland Barrs drafted the design and content of the map component, developed tours of sustainable sites throughout the Lower Mainland, and wrote several case studies of economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable projects. Assignment Dates: 2005 – 2006
State of the Art: Sustainable Community Projects in the Greater Vancouver Region Client: University of British Columbia Project: A report on the core characteristics and approaches to sustainability in four Lower Mainland communities, including the strategies used to plan and then develop those communities. The study provided insight into innovative practices and strategic leadership on sustainable development. Firm Role: Holland Barrs created a framework of analysis to compare four case studies of sustainable communities. The framework looked at both core aspects of sustainable development, as well as central elements of community planning and development. Assignment Date: 2004 – 2005
Bud S. Fraser M.A.Sc , P.Eng. — Senior Engineer
Biography
Bud Fraser has eighteen years of combined engineering, project management and research experience in Canada, Europe and Asia. With a background originally in Electrical Engineering, Bud engineered communications systems for MDI/Motorola in many locations worldwide from 1988 to 1994, including some of the first wireless data networks in the world. Since 1997 Bud has focused his work on environmental and sustainability projects, developing and implementing innovative waste management technology, and integrating technical aspects such as biological processes together with information technology. His unique combination of skills and expertise give him a broad perspective, encompassing a holistic approach as well as technical detail. Bud’s experience also includes prominent project management and team leadership roles. His role in the firm focuses on strategic and integrated technical approaches to building and infrastructure systems and resources including water, wastewater, solid waste and energy, with a strong project management component. He also has significant experience in client presentations, training and most recently, green building and energy strategy workshops.
Education
1997 Master of Applied Science (Bio-Resource Engineering) University of British Columbia 1988 Bachelor of Science (Electrical Engineering) University of Manitoba
Professional Experience
Senior Engineer Holland Barrs Planning Group, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Sustainable and integrated infrastructure engineering, project management, green building strategies.
2007 Integrated Community Sustainable Servicing Plan Feasibility Study (Harrison Hot Springs, BC): Working with a major utility company and other consultants, Bud is developing the sustainable infrastructure component of a feasibility study for a comprehensive ICSSP. Energy and Infrastructure Strategies: Bud has developed/co-developed Sustainable Energy and Infrastructure Workshops and Strategies for several major developers and projects, including Revelstoke Mountain Resort and the Hudson’s Bay redevelopment in Victoria. Climate-Friendly Infrastructure Strategies: Bud is co-developing the Climate Solutions Playbook for Infrastructure for the US Green Building Council. 2006 Green Building Strategies for Developers: Bud co-developed technical workshop materials and reports for the Green Building Strategy Workshops #504-318 Homer St. Vancouver, BC, V6B 2V2, Canada held with several major developers in the Vancouver region, and developed T: 604-688-9769 e118 the water, wastewater and solid waste strategies. These projects included F: 604-688-9764 C: 604-782-4016 two high-rise towers in North Vancouver, redevelopment of the Bay store in [email protected] Victoria, and Revelstoke Mountain Resort. www.hollandbarrs.com
Senior Project Vision Envirotech, Vancouver, BC Engineer 1998 – 2006 Wastewater treatment technology development: Bud conducted and managed multi-year R&D activities in developing innovative wastewater treatment and recycling technology (REACTSTM and SMPTM), in partnership with NRC-IRAP. Fertilizer production: Bud designed and managed development and implementation of a liquid organic fertilizer production system for North America’s largest hydro-organic vegetable greenhouse grower, based in BC. Biosolids management: In conjunction with UBC, Bud designed and implemented a wastewater biosolids recycling system for the District of Kent, BC. Energy and water ecodesign study: Under the Ecodesign program of the Science Council of BC, Bud conducted a research study analysing productivity and efficiency improvements for commercial greenhouses, focusing on energy and water conservation. Farm waste management: Bud engineered a composting system and wastewater treatment control system for solid and liquid hog farm waste in Fujian, China to help provide value-added processing and reduce discharge of untreated liquid manure into the environment.
Senior Project Soft Tracks Enterprises, Richmond, BC Manager
2001, 2002 Skypay software development: Managed large software R&D projects, with contracts up to 10 project staff, including planning, scheduling, budgeting, and reporting.
Researcher Dept. of Chemical and Bio-Resource Eng., University of BC, Vancouver, BC 1995 - 1998 Waste management research: Conducted research in organic waste management, process control and odour and gas emissions from waste treatment.
Senior Systems MDI/Motorola, Richmond, BC Engineer 1988 - 1995 Wireless data networks: Designed and implemented large wireless communications networks in several overseas countries, for clients including Hutchison Mobile Data (HK and UK) and Singapore Telecom.
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Professional Affiliations
1991 - Present Registered Professional Engineer, Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC. 2002 - Present Member, BC Water and Waste Association
Recent Presentations
2007 Future Forces: Optimizing Sustainable Development Performance at the Building, Neighborhood and City Scales, Approaches to Water and Waste, Architecture Institute of BC Conference 2007. 2005 Update on On-Site Composting of Greenhouse Wastes, BC Greenhouse Growers Association, Abbotsford, BC. 2004 Sustainable Management of Organic Resources, seminar presented to Holland-Barrs Planning Group, Vancouver, BC. Co-composting of Biosolids and Poultry Manure at the District of Kent Wastewater Treatment Plant, BC Water and Waste Association Annual Conference, Whistler, BC. 2003 A Case Study of the EcoDesign Innovation Program, Canadian Environmental Industry Association BC Chapter, Vancouver, BC
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Robert Barrs B.Sc., M.Sc., MCIP — Principal
Biography
Rob Barrs is co-founder & principal of Holland Barrs Planning Group Inc. He is a LEED® accredited planner, a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners, and holds degrees in both Geology/Geophysics and Community & Regional Planning, as well as a post-graduate Certificate in Media Studies. Rob’s passion is to create highly liveable, sustainable communities. As such, he works closely with communities, development teams, governments and NGOs to identify practical, implementable solutions to the challenges facing these organizations. His experience as a planning consultant has included extensive work coordinating multidisciplinary urban development teams on many projects, from concept development to final approvals, including official plan amendments, local area plans, re-zonings and subdivision. Rob recently led studies in residential intensification best practices, transit-oriented development, green building incentives and eco-industrial networking. His research and writing has covered a broad range of topics including high performance buildings, tax strategies for greening municipalities, and environmental stewardship. Rob chaired the board of directors of Smart Growth BC from 2006 to 2007.
Education
2002 LEED® Accredited Professional 1998 Master of Science (Planning), School of Community and Regional Planning – University of British Columbia
1994 Postgraduate Diploma, Media Studies, University of Sussex, UK 1988 B.Sc. Geology/Geophysics, University of Liverpool, UK
Professional Consulting Experience
Principal Holland Barrs Planning Group, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Planning, Policy Development, Organizational Development, Communications, Education and Public Involvement. Firm specializes in planning for sustainable development.
Project Experience
2007 Town of Gibsons – Update zoning bylaw with innovative new zones, address view and secondary suite issues. Chemainus First Nation – Develop a comprehensive Community Plan including focus groups and charrette process. North Denman Lands Inc. – Work with owners of 2,200 acre property to develop innovative land use plan and re- 504-318 Homer St. Vancouver, BC, V6B 2V2, zoning application that involved large donation of Canada ecologically sensitive and working lands to the T: 604-688-9769 e100 F: 604-688-9764 community. Advise on public process and develop re- C: 604-999-1283 [email protected] www.hollandbarrs.com
zoning application. Westmana – planner and sustainability advisor for large, strategic waterfront property in Squamish. Advise on planning and design process and develop sub-area plan. Westmana – develop proposal and planning rationale for strategically located nodal development project. CMHC – Lead consultant for extensive Canada wide study on best practices of transit-oriented development. 2006 Westmana – Develop a set of green building guidelines for a statutory building scheme for a small residential subdivision. Deb Curran and Co./Wetland Stewardship Partnership – Lead workshop and assist with development of Green Infrastructure and Sensitive Ecosystems Model Bylaws project. District of Saanich - Lead consultant on a team developing a Visual Preference Survey and Design Guidelines for redevelopment of retail centres. Townline Developments Inc. – Develop a green building and sustainability strategy for mixed use lifestyle centre including retail commercial and residential towers. Advise client on all aspects of sustainable development (on going). Eco-industrial Solutions/Town of Hinton – Planner on team developing plan and gaining approvals for innovative eco-industrial Park. 2005 Trilogy Properties - Planning, Sustainability Advising and Community Mapping for 750 acre site in Cumberland (on- going) Town of Gibsons, BC - Lead Consultant for Gospel Rock Neighbourhood Area Plan (on-going). City of Lethbridge, Sheltair Resource Consultants – development of green development guidelines for new subdivisions. BC Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection/Sheltair – Air Quality Planning Checklist. Eco-industrial Solutions/Town of Hinton – Eco-industrial Park Planning and Development Guidelines (on-going) Greater Vancouver Regional District - Green building incentive program for new and retrofit development. OKA Holdings – Sustainability Strategy for Alpha Creek Lands, Whistler, BC. Holborn Group – Sustainability Strategy for Townhouse and mixed use project, Whistler, BC. 505-318 Homer St. Vancouver, BC, V6B 2V2, Resort Municipality of Whistler – Develop a Food Strategy Canada T: 604-688-9769 Scoping Document. F: 604-688-9764 C: 604-999-1283 Re-Zonings – various re-zoning approvals for infill projects [email protected] www.hollandbarrs.com 2
in City of Vancouver. 2004 Eco-industrial Solutions/Conafovi – Sustainable Housing Program for Mexico. University of British Columbia – Lead consultant for Green building incentive program for residential development. CWE Inc. – Lead consultant developing a Comprehensive Development Plan for Nelson Waterfront. BC Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection - Lead consultant for Integrated Air Quality-Related Planning Processes Study and Report. Karyo and City of Kelowna - Advisor/Planner for a social marketing strategy for Transportation Demand Management. Re-Zonings – various re-zoning for infill projects in City of Vancouver. Sea to Sky University - Advisor/Planner for Sustainability/Low Impact Development Issues for New Private University. Centre for Integral Economics - Advising on Land Value Taxation for City of Winnipeg. City of Coquitlam / Madrone Environmental Consultants - Planner on multidisciplinary team developing a Comprehensive Landscape Strategy.
2002 Inuvialuit Land Administration/Pottinger Gaherty Environmental Consultants Ltd - Inuvialuit Land Administration – Development of new land administration system including policy and procedure development and institutional changes. 2001 Centre for Integral Economics (formerly Northwest Environment Watch BC) - Lead author of study on municipal-scale tax shifting for sustainability – “Financing Change: Tax Shifting and other Fiscal Strategies” (August 2001). Busby + Associates Architects, Vancouver, BC - Planner on team for design competition to design a New Town of 100,000 people for Jamaica (placed third out of 60) and Great Egyptian Museum Competition.
Other Professional Work Experience
Planner Development Engineering (London) Ltd. London, ON, Canada. Planning approvals (subdivisions, area plans, re-zonings, site plans), co-ordination of multi-disciplinary 505-318 Homer St. Vancouver, BC, V6B 2V2, teams/studies, subdivision layout and design. Canada T: 604-688-9769 1998 – 2001 Loy-El Sloan Developments Inc - Planning approvals for F: 604-688-9764 300-acre Secondary (Area) Plan and plan of subdivision. C: 604-999-1283 [email protected] www.hollandbarrs.com 3
Cold Springs Farm - Design and planning approvals for Thamesford Ridge condominiums. Saxonville Estates Ltd. - Planning approvals for 36 acre subdivision in Strathroy, ON & Planning approvals for 30 acre condominium project, Strathroy, ON. Tricar Inc - Design and planning approvals for 15 acre subdivision. Werner Humann - Design and planning approvals for small, residential infill subdivision. ATH Group Inc. - Design and rezoning for 501 Second Street - Infill Development Planning Project.
Current and Recent Affiliations
• Full Member-Canadian Institute Planners and Planning Institute of BC. • Smart Growth BC – Board of Directors 2001 to 2007 (Chair 2006 to 2007). • Community Development Loan Association (London). • Board of Directors – Margaret’s Haven, Community Housing Project. • Director – Caburn Housing Cooperative (UK).
Recent Presentations
• Edmonton City Council – Sustainability Workshop • World Planners Congress (2006) – Sustainability and Public Involvement. • CIP 2005 Conference – Planning for Sustainable and Competitive Business – The Case of Maplewood, BC. • BC Land Summit (2004) – Residential Intensification. • PIBC 2005 Conference – Developing a Comprehensive Landscape Strategy in the City of Coquitlam. • Organic Hong Kong Conference – Keynote Address.
Writing and Media
• Article - Colwood and Langford at a Crossroads – Goldstream Gazette. BC Almanac (Mark Forsythe Show) – Smart Growth. • Guide to the Subdivision Planning Process in London Ontario. • Guide to Environmental Stewardship in the Sloan Subdivision. • Urban Agriculture: The Potential for S.E. False Creek. • Various Animation and Video Documentary Shorts.
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Alex Boston
Biography
Alex is dedicated to building an economy that supports healthy communities while protecting the natural systems upon which all life depends. He has joined the Holland Barrs Planning Group to lead their climate and local government program. He has advised governments, businesses and NGOs on advancing sustainability with an emphasis on climate and energy. He operates from the premise that our greatest challenges are institutional not technological. His best practice knowledge across many jurisdictions is reinforced by an appreciation of best process. He combines strategic planning, meaningful engagement and governance insights to design integrated, high-impact programs. Alex served the David Suzuki Foundation as senior climate policy analyst. Clients have included the Canadian Business for Social Responsibility and Prime Minister’s Advisory Committee on Cities. He has worked in community development across Canada and internationally. He received an Action Canada Fellowship for policy excellence and earned his MSc at Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute where he was a British Council Scholar.
Education
Sept. 05 – Oct. 06 Master of Science (Environmental Change & Management Awards: British Council Chevening Scholarship) University of Oxford, UK
Sept. 05 – Jun. 06 National fellowship in policy excellence & leadership Action Canada
Sept. 89 – May 93 Bachelor of Arts, International Development Awards: President’s Leadership Class, Hector McInnes Scholarship Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
Sept. 87 – May 88 Français pour Non-Francophones diploma Université Laval, Québec
Sept. 88 – May 89 Participant in a bilateral community development program Conducted educational needs assessment for a community college in Biggar, SK. Delivered a health project on waterborne disease in rural Nepal. Canada World Youth, Nepal/Canada
Sept. 86 – May 87 1st year social sciences Awards: Clifford Brown Scholarship, Luscombe-Von Bylburg Scholarship, Chilliwack Youth to be Recognized Award University College of the Fraser Valley
Professional/personal development includes: accounting; leading organizational change; communications and media training; facilitation & negotiation; wilderness first aid; avalanche & mountaineering safety; Telemark instructor certification.
Languages: French – high verbal/moderate written; German – moderate verbal/low written; latent abilities in Polish, Spanish and Nepalese.
Professional Work Experience
July 07 -- Present Holland Barrs Planning Group: Climate and Local Government Lead Vancouver, BC, Canada Working with developers to reduce carbon footprints for new developments; working with local governments to mainstream climate and sustainability into existing activity; #504-318 Homer St. developing capacity building materials for local climate programs; advising senior Vancouver, BC, V6B 2V2, Canada orders of government on policy to harness local government capacity for climate T: 604-688-9769 e125 protection. F: 604-688-9764 [email protected] www.hollandbarrs.com Jan. 05 – June 07 Policy, Communications & Strategy Guidance, Canada) Lead or senior consultant for various clients including: Canadian Business for Social
Responsibility, City of Vancouver Planning Department, David Suzuki Foundation, Infrastructure Canada Cities and Communities Secretariat, Mountain Equipment Co- op, Prime Minister’s Advisory Committee on Cities & Communities, WWF Canada.
June 98 – Dec. 04 David Suzuki Foundation, BC: Sr Policy Analyst, Climate Program Led national and international policy and legislative work; developed innovative outreach programs; led delegations to high-level meetings; testified to legislative committees; supervised campaign support; published reports; mentored other program teams. Declined Sustainability Program Directorship to pursue graduate work.
May 97 – May 98 Canada World Youth, Poland/Saskatchewan: Project Supervisor Co-led with a Pole a bilateral program on community economic development and leadership for 20 young Canadians and Poles; established and supervised work placements for participants in Poland and Canada.
Aug. 93 – Dec. 95 Council of Canadians, Ontario: Program Manager Co-led trade, social and food policy programs and fundraising strategy; supervised campaign support. Built an alliance of scientists, farmers and milk processors that won a moratorium on approving a synthetic growth hormone for the dairy industry.
1989 – 2001 Leadership & Development Education, BC/Nova Scotia: Consultant Delivered workshops on leadership, community development and sustainability to various constituencies including foster children, abusive men and young leaders.
1985 – 1989 Oregon Association of Student Councils, Oregon: Sr. Trainer Delivered training programs to student leaders on management, facilitation, mediation, leadership and team building.
1986, 1988 Chilliwack Community Services (Summers) Coordinated a project identifying youth priorities that secured long-term program funding; directed 30 youth and volunteer adult staff in a leadership training program.
1984 – 1993 Agriculture & Silviculture, BC/Québec/France Worked extensively in agriculture and silviculture while in high school and university
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Select Presentations
2007 Governing Sustainable Communities, Resort Municipality of Whistler 2020 Team (Forthcoming, Whistler)
2006 Risk & Opportunity: Framing Sustainability Policy, Compass Resource Management (Vancouver)
2006 Capacity Building for Local Climate Protection, City of Vancouver Sustainability Group
2006 From inside out and top to bottom: capacity building for sustainable communities, FCM capacity building unit (Ottawa)
2006 Healthy Atmosphere: How Cities Become Climate Champions, University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute (Oxford UK)
2005 From Crisis to Opportunity: Local Climate Protection, Prime Minister’s Advisory Committee on Cities and Communities (Québec City)
2004 Canada at the Crossroads on Canadian Kyoto Implementation at “Building Upon Kyoto Conference” (Tokyo, Japan)
2003 Hazard & Hope on the Hydrogen Highway to BC municipal governments (Whistler)
2003 Kyoto and Jobs to Canadian Auto Workers National Conference (Toronto)
2003 Risky Business: avoiding climate action with controversial projects in developing countries (UN Climate Conference of the Parties, Milan, Italy)
2003 Lecturer/educator on climate politics and leadership for ship-based Antarctic educational program, Students on Ice (Antarctica/Argentina)
Community Activities
Present Research Roundtable, UBC Design Centre for Sustainability: Member
2003 – 2005 Climate Action Network Canada: Board Director
2002 – 2005 Green Budget Coalition, Canada: Steering Committee
2003 – 2005 Labour Environmental Alliance Cancer Prevention Program, BC: Director
2004 – 2005 Cool Vancouver Task Force (City of Vancouver Climate Plan Committee): Member
2002 – 2005 Grace MacInnis Housing Co-op, BC: Vice-President
2002 – 2004 KyotoSmart Network (Business-NGO-Government Alliance): Steering Committee
#504-318 Homer St. 2003, 2004 Vancouver Telemark Festival, BC: Instructor Vancouver, BC, V6B 2V2, Canada T: 604-688-9769 e125 F: 604-688-9764 1997, 1998 Alpine Club of Canada, Canadian Rockies: Hut Guardian [email protected] www.hollandbarrs.com 1991 – 1993 Perspective, Nova Scotia: Editor of a regional magazine (circulation: 20,000)
1991 – 1993 Public Interest Research Group, Nova Scotia: Board Director & Founding Member
1991 – 1993 Canadian Ski Patrol, Nova Scotia: Cross-country patroller
1991 – 1992 Dalhousie Student Union, Nova Scotia: Vice President External
1989 – 1991 Int. Development Students Association, Dalhousie University: President, Treasurer
1989 – 1991 Campus Environmental Action Group, Dalhousie University: Treasurer
1984 – 1986 Sardis Senior & Vedder Junior, BC: President of both student bodies 1981 – 1984
Recent Publications
December 2007 Boston, Alex. Forthcoming. “Top Down, Bottom Up & Inside Out: Developing a Climate of change at City Hall,” chapter in a book to be published by Municipal World.
December 2007 Boston, Alex. Forthcoming. “Top Down, Bottom Up & Inside Out: Developing a Climate of change at City Hall,” chapter in a book to be published by Municipal World.
March – April Boston, Alex. “Think Federal, Act Local: Maxim for an Effective Made-In- Canada Climate Plan,” ReNew Canada: The Infrastructure Renewal Magazine
September 2006 Boston, Alex. Best Process Before Best Practice: Lessons from Leading Canadian Cities on Climate Protection MSc Dissertation. Oxford Environmental Change Institute
September 2006 Boston, Alex. “Cities show the way on climate” op-ed, Toronto Star
February 2006 Boston, Alex. “It's Conservative to Conserve” feature, Ottawa Citizen
July 2005 Prime Minister’s Advisory Committee on Cities. Cities, Communities & Our Common Future (Foundation Paper Author. Embargoed. Available on request.)
December 2004 Green Budget Coalition Federal Budget 2005 Priorities. (Author: “Pollution Dividend for Health Care & Innovation,” “Transit Renewal and Sustainable Cities,” and “National Energy Efficiency;” Co-author: “Green Power Strategy.”)
November 2004 David Suzuki Foundation. Fostering a Sustainable Canada: Protecting our Health, Environment, & Economy (Lead author, Federal Budget 2005 Submission)
August 2004 Boston, Alex. Crisis to Opportunity: Building a 21st Century Electricity
System for Ontario Legislative Committee on Electricity Restructuring. David #504-318 Homer St. Suzuki Foundation Vancouver, BC, V6B 2V2, Canada T: 604-688-9769 e125 F: 604-688-9764 June 2004 Climate Action Network International. Alex Boston’s “Canada at the Climate [email protected] Crossroads” chapter in Building Upon Kyoto: Long Term Climate Policy www.hollandbarrs.com Prospects
November 2003 Boston, Alex. Briefing papers: Temporary Forestry Credits in Developing Countries; Socio-economic and Environmental Criteria for Carbon Sinks in Developing Countries; and Plantar: the Case for Accountability. David Suzuki Foundation
May 2004 Boston, Alex. May. Planning for the Next Generation: ten principles for climate protection and innovation. David Suzuki Foundation
References
David Suzuki Professor Emeritus, UBC Chair, David Suzuki Foundation
Justice Malcolm Rowe Supreme Court of Newfoundland & Labrador Former Clerk of Executive Council & Cabinet Secretary, NF
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Mark Holland B.LA., M.Sc., MCIP — Principal
Biography
Mark Holland is a LEED™-accredited planner who holds professional degrees in both Landscape Architecture and Community and Regional Planning.
Mark‘s consulting work focuses largely on integrating sustainability principles into the mainstream development industry, with an eye to developing competitive advantage for his clients and their projects. He frequently works
closely with development teams to find cost-effective ways of developing in a more sustainable manner, including projects from small infill to large-scale Mark Holland. master-planned communities, in both the rural and urban context.
Mark also works extensively with the public sector, including serving in 2003-04 as the City of Vancouver’s first Manager of its Sustainability Office, with a focus on strategic planning and greenhouse gas management. Prior to private practice, he served as a city planner with the City of Vancouver, both as a rezoning planner and as the sustainable development planner and project co-ordinator for the Southeast False Creek model sustainable urban development project, now the site of the Athlete’s Housing for the 2010 Olympics.
He serves on the Board of Directors of both the Community Energy Association and the Ecodesign Resource Society. He has taught at both SFU and UBC, and has lectured on a wide range of issues. He was selected as one of Vancouver’s top 40 under 40 in 2004 by Business in Vancouver Magazine.
Education
2002 LEED™ Certified Professional 1999 Master of Science: Community and Regional Planning - UBC 1995 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture - UBC
Professional Consulting Experience
2000 - Principal - Holland Barrs Planning Group, Vancouver, BC, present Canada • Planning, Policy Development, Organizational Development, Communications, Education and Public Involvement. • The firm specializes in sustainable development.
2005 The Holborn Project / Holborn Group - development of a sustainability strategy for a residential project in Whistler in the town centre. 2005 Alpha Creek Project / OKA Holdings – development of a sustainability strategy for a mixed use project in Whistler 504-318 Homer St. adjacent wetlands Vancouver, BC, V6B 2V2, Canada T: 604-688-9769 x101 2005 BC Hydro Engineering Div – work with Hydro and Abbott F: 604-688-9764 Strategies to develop a strategic action plan on C: 604-999-9739 [email protected] www.hollandbarrs.com
sustainability for the Engineering division 2005 Bell Canada – work with the Bell and Abbott Strategies to develop Bell’s Olympic Sustainability Strategy 2005 Green Fleets Accreditation System / National Fleets Challenge – leading the development of an accreditation system (similar to LEED) for vehicle fleets of all types across Canada. 2005 Economic Development Workshop / City of Burnaby – work with Triumph Communications to develop part of Burnaby’s economic development strategy on sustainability technologies and environmental industries. 2005 Grandview Nanaimo Mixed Use project/ Charleton & Assoc – leading the development approvals process for a C-1 Mixed Use project in Vancouver 2004 - 2005 Arbutus Visioning Process / CPR – leading the sustainability planning and consultation process to create a vision for the Arbutus Lands Railway Corridor. 2004 - 2005 Natures Shores / The Mission Group – development of a sustainability strategy for a residential project on a difficult site north of Kelowna on Okanagan Lake. 2004 - 2005 University of British Columbia / South Campus – development of sustainability strategy for the South Campus neighbourhood at University Town 2004 - 2005 University of British Columbia – Completion of complex comparison study of leading sustainable community projects in the lower mainland. 2004 - 2005 University of British Columbia – Strategic advice on organizational integration and communications strategies around sustainability for the University. 2002 - East Fraser Lands / Parklane Homes – Sustainability advisor present on East Fraser Lands development planning team including work on a sustainability strategy, an energy strategy, and a songbird habitat strategy. 2003 - 2004 City of Vancouver / Manager of Sustainability Office – Mark served as a part time contract senior manager with
the City of Vancouver to establish their sustainability office and lead a wide range of projects, including the Cool Vancouver Climate Change Plan project. 2005 Other projects - Mark retains an ongoing open contract with the City on many projects, including advising on the 2010 Olympics, developing the City’s first Sustainability Report, developing a Strategic Sustainability Action Plan for the City, and others. 2004 - Eco-industrial Solutions/Town of Hinton – Eco-industrial present Park Planning and Development Guidelines 505-318 Homer St. Vancouver, BC, V6B 2V2, 2002 - 2004 Brook Development Planning – Sustainability advisor on Canada development strategy teams T: 604-688-9769 x101 F: 604-688-9764 • City of North Vancouver Civic Precinct C: 604-999-9739 [email protected] • Glenrobin redevelopment strategy www.hollandbarrs.com 2
2000 - 2004 Pottinger Gaherty Environmental Consultants Ltd – • Inuvialuit Land Administration System Development
• Governance system advisor – Kamloops First Nations • Sustainability advisor for 22nd/23rd Ave – North Van • Sustainability advisor to Silver Valley OCP team 2003 - Highbridge / Channel Ridge Properties – Sustainability advising on many issues and planning support for 90 acre town centre on Saltspring Island 2000 - Green Municipal Enabling Funds Reviewer / FCM – serving present as a peer reviewer for GMEF funding applications for leading sustainability projects across Canada 2003 Green Seed Foundation – Development of strategic plan for non-profit foundation 2001 - 2003 Maplewood / District of North Vancouver – Planning for Maplewood Community Design Charrette with Eco- Industrial Business Park plan 2002 - 2004 Resort Municipality of Whistler – • Strategic advice and assistance on Whistler’s Comprehensive Sustainability Plan (CSP) • Assistance in the scoping of a “sustainable food strategy” for Whistler • Sustainability Planning Workshops 2001 - 2002 City of Vancouver / Compass Resource Management – Southeast False Creek Community Energy Plan 2001 - 2002 City of Vancouver / Keen Engineering – Southeast False Creek Water and Waste Management Strategy 2001 Industry Canada / Mark Jeffrey Consultants – Development of Eco-Industrial Networking Protocol 2000 - 2001 City of North Vancouver / Busby + Assoc – Foot of Lonsdale Planning & Design Study 2001 University of British Columbia – Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture – Instructor – Design Studio 2001 Centre for Integral Economics / Northwest Environment Watch BC – • Study on municipal scale tax shifting for sustainability • Strategic planning for organizational development 2000 - 2002 Busby + Associates Architects – • Rezoning – Concord’s Beach Neighbourhood • Site planning – Cambie Bridgehead Study
• Planner on Sustainable Prototype development team 505-318 Homer St. 2000 - 2002 The ORCAD Consulting Group Ltd / CMHC – Vancouver, BC, V6B 2V2, Canada • Development of manual on public participation T: 604-688-9769 x101 • Development of manual on management of F: 604-688-9764 C: 604-999-9739 design charrettes for sustainable urban [email protected] developments www.hollandbarrs.com 3
2000 Herold Development Services Ltd/ Rapid Transit Project 2000 Ltd.– Planning Coordinator on Port Moody-Coquitlam Skytrain project management team
2000 BC Hydro – Alternative Energy Division – Consulting on Community Energy Planning program 2001 The City of North Vancouver – Development and delivery of staff education module on sustainable urban development for OCP update 2000 - 2003 Omni Productions: The Natural Home – Advisor and featured expert on internationally syndicated television series on “green” homes 2000 - Liahona Security – Development and delivery of present education modules for RCMP/Police on CPTED and community planning 2000 - 2001 Federation of Canadian Municipalities – Member of review panel for GMEF funding applications
Other Professional Work Experience
Planner City of Vancouver Planning Department 1997-2001 Rezoning Planner Sustainable Development Planner and Project coordinator for Southeast False Creek (a model sustainable urban neighbourhood) - SEFC Policy Statement received 2000 CIP National Honor Award 1992 - 1997 Earthscapes Owner/Operator of a Landscape Design and Contracting company Pre 1992 7 years in the reforestation business in central BC • Treeplanter, Foreman, Company Owner
Current and Recent Affiliations
• Full Member-Canadian Institute Planners, Planning Institute of BC
Recent Presentations
• Municipalities and Sustainable Economic Development – PNEDC Annual Conference • Green Buildings and Municipalities – Kelowna • Sustainability and our Cities – annual presentations for Leadership Vancouver program 505-318 Homer St. • Sustainable Neighbourhood Development and the Vancouver, BC, V6B 2V2, Canada Vancouver Experience – Portland Rethink and Natural T: 604-688-9769 x101 Step Oregon F: 604-688-9764 • Redefining Diversity : Planning for Subcultures – CIP C: 604-999-9739 [email protected] Annual Conference www.hollandbarrs.com 4
• First Nations, Energy and Climate Change conference • Sustainability & public sector land management - BCBC conference • Ecological Design and Planning at the neighbourhood scale –Simon Fraser University • Eco-industrial Networking – RCBC conference • Sustainable Communities & Institutional Change – Globe 2002 • Southeast False Creek and Sustainable Communities - USA Green Building Council – Cascadia Chapter • Community Energy Planning - BC Hydro Alternative Energy Conference • Sustainable Development and Planning - Canadian Association of Planning Students Conference • Sustainable Community Planning - CMHC: Charting the Federal Role in Sustainable Development • Sustainable Communities and Southeast False Creek - Federation of Canadian Municipalities Conference • Various topics - CIP and PIBC Annual Conferences • Media - Featured on several documentary and educational TV programs on sustainability
Volunteer
Community Energy Association • Founding Board Member - Representative for Planning Institute of BC
Ecodesign Resource Society Vice-President (1996-2002) www.vcn.bc.ca/edrs/
505-318 Homer St. Vancouver, BC, V6B 2V2, Canada T: 604-688-9769 x101 F: 604-688-9764 C: 604-999-9739 [email protected] www.hollandbarrs.com 5 Paul Dorby, MSc. Transportation Planning Project Manager / Senior Transportation Planner ______
Company Profile
Bunt & Associates Engineering Ltd. is a transportation planning and engineering consultant focused on strategic planning, functional design, project EDUCATION
approvals and specialized expert services. The company provides its services MSc (Transportation Planning) – in the areas of policy development, pre-engineering services and post- Napier University, Edinburgh construction operations, with a focus on client service through a group of highly trained and experienced professional staff. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Bunt & Associates is a true specialist consultant, providing services related to Former Member of the Institute of transportation exclusively. The company’s strengths lie in providing Transportation, and Institute of enterprising solutions to urban transportation planning problems and innovative Highways and Transportation design for transportation systems. (both UK)
CAREER SUMMARY Services offered encompass all aspects of the integrated transportation systems found in urban environments, such as airport, road networks, transit Lothian Regional Council facilities and operations, bicycle planning, and parking facilities. In the (Edinburgh) Accident, Vancouver area, Bunt & Associates has provided transportation planning and Investigation & Prevention Officer 1987 to 1988 design advice on a number of SkyTrain stations on the Expo, Millennium and the planned Evergreen and Canada Line facilities, plus the West Coast Strathclyde Regional Council Express commuter rail station in Port Coquitlam. (Glasgow) Accident Studies 1988 - 1991
Company wide, Bunt & Associates staff size is approaching 40 transportation Strathclyde Regional Council engineering and planning professionals. The Vancouver office has 15 staff and (Glasgow) – Traffic Operations there are other offices in Victoria, Calgary, and Edmonton. Officer 1991 - 1995
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Dougall Baillie Associates (Glasgow) Transport Development Planner Paul Dorby is a Project Manager / Senior Transportation Planner for Bunt & 1995 – 1997 Associates and has provided consulting advice to private and public sector clients regarding all aspects of urban transportation for more than 15 years. Count On Us – Traffic Survey Manager (Scotland) His expertise includes traffic engineering, transit planning, urban street design, 1997 - 1998 land development, transportation operations and transportation policy. WS Atkins – Transportation He is known particularly for his experience in sustainable urban transportation Planner (London) 1998 - 1999 planning in the United Kingdom and is now developing these skills in Canada. In particular, he has a wide range of experience of large-scale urban projects Savell Bird & Axon – Associate such as shopping centres, office schemes, hospitals, colleges, and high- Transportation Land Development density residential-based schemes, and has developed specialized skills and Planner (London) 1999 - 2005 levels of understanding on how these schemes integrate within the fabric of the urban environment and transportation systems. He is well versed in the Bunt & Associates (Vancouver) development approval process, where he frequently represents clients at Senior Transportation Planner Council meetings and other public forums. /Project Manager 2005 –
Prior to his consulting career, Mr. Dorby spent 7 years as a traffic operations manager in municipal government.
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Forthquarter, Edinburgh, UK – this is a mixed-use development on a 110 acre brownfield site in North Edinburgh, encompassing a local shopping centre, offices, residential, leisure and a local college, and all of which is built around a new light rail / bus interchange.
Beckton Gasworks, London, UK - worked closely with the Docklands Light Rail Company to integrate a new station within a 130acre high-density residential-based community with supporting land uses. This station was also integrated with the East London Transit (busway) and local bus services.
Gateway Project, Croydon, London, UK – Gateway is a high-density office- / residential-based scheme in Croydon City Centre and it adjoins East Croydon Station, which is a major interchange between rail, trams and bus services. As part of this development, a transportation assessment was prepared on how this development integrated and impacted on the operation of the station.
Labatt Brewery, New Westminster, BC - this a 9 acre site located next to the Sapperton SkyTrain. A pivotal part of the development will be the extension of the Royal Columbian Hospital from the adjoining site, and this will be complemented with new retail, restaurants / bars and residential uses. One of the main objectives of the scheme will be to provide a convivial and attractive arrival plaza for the station, and providing connections through to bus services and the ‘high street’.
East Fraserlands, Vancouver, BC – a comprehensive transportation study was produced to quantify the future transportation demands of a new complete community with a projected future population of 12,000+. Integration with bus and a future rapid transit station were key aspects of the design.
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Compass Resource Management Ltd. is a management consultancy based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Our interdisciplinary team of engineers, economists, planners, and management professionals are dedicated to improving decisions through good information, balanced analysis and meaningful dialogue.
Compass has completed more than 300 assignments provincially, nationally and internationally. We have worked for a wide variety of both public- and private- sector clients. We have worked in a range of sectors including energy; water; biodiversity and species at risk; forests; air and climate; pricing and economic instruments; pollution control and contaminant management; technology; and international development.
Services
Financial & Economic Analysis Business Case Preparation & Evaluation Risk Analysis and Management Strategic Planning Policy and Regulatory Analysis Environmental Planning Structured Decision Making Project Management Facilitation Training Modelling
Compass Resource Management Ltd. - Corporate Profile Page 1 Energy Practice Area
The energy sector poses some of the most profound and far-reaching challenges facing our society. We have worked in virtually every facet of the energy industry - from production to delivery to end use. And we have worked with a variety of stakeholders - from policy makers and regulators to utilities and communities. As a result, one of our key strengths is our ability see the big picture from multiple perspectives.
We have advised on market reform proposals, developed policy instruments to promote alternative energy supplies, prepared strategic business plans for utilities, assessed tariff proposals, conducted valuations of new and existing power projects, developed water use plans for large hydroelectric facilities, prepared community energy plans, conducted feasibility studies and developed business plans for neighbourhood energy utilities, assessed markets for new energy technologies, evaluated opportunities for demand-side management, and led environmental assessments and mitigation studies.
Compass Resource Management Ltd. - Corporate Profile Page 2 Sample Energy Projects
Neighbourhood Energy System Developments Vancouver, Whistler, North Vancouver, Coquitlam, 1999 - 2007
We have prepared business cases and conducted reviews for several high-profile district energy systems in the province, including systems located in Southeast False Creek the East Fraser Lands of Vancouver, the Lonsdale area of North Vancouver, the Olympic Village in Whistler, and the Fraser Mills site in Coquitlam. We have assisted in the development of demand forecasts and scenarios, identification and screening of heating technologies and system concepts, analysis of all business costs and returns, evaluation of business as usual costs, development of rates, analysis of emissions, and ownership and operating options.
Green Building and Infrastructure Fund Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee, 2006
We assessed the opportunities for a green building and infrastructure investment fund to cover the capital cost premium associated with higher performance buildings and infrastructure. The study was funded by a group led by the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee and including the City of Vancouver, Vancity, BC Hydro, and Tides Foundation.
Regulatory Economics Advisors BC Utilities Commission, 2003 - 2007
We are regular economics advisors to the BC Utilities Commission, where we assist in the review of applications for large infrastructure projects, energy acquisition plans, and rate designs. Recent proceedings we have advised on include, BC Hydro’s Electricity Purchase Agreement with Alcan, Terasen Gas Vancouver Island’s proposed Mt. Hayes LNG Plant, contract awarded under BC Hydro’s 2006 Call for Tenders for new power supply, BC Hydro’s 2008/09 Revenue Requirements, BC Hydro’s 2006 Integrated Electricity Plan, BCTC’s Vancouver Island Transmission Reinforcement Project, Kinder Morgan Inc.’s acquisition of Terasen Inc., BC Hydro’s proposed contract award to the Duke Point Power Plant on Vancouver Island.
Compass Resource Management Ltd. - Corporate Profile Page 3 MLA Burrard Thermal Options Committee Government of B.C., 2003
We lead a review and policy development process for BC Hydro’s Burrard Thermal Generating Facility with a six-member MLA Committee. Directed modeling of plant operations under alternative market forecasts and operating constraints, identified alternative options for plant operation and replacement, evaluated financial and non-financial impacts of base case and alternatives (including analysis of emissions and their impacts), and identified policy alternatives for consideration by the Committee.
Sustainable Energy Technology Assessment Greater Vancouver Regional District, 2004
We assessed the resource and economic potential for ground source heat pumps, sewer heat recovery and active solar thermal technologies throughout the Lower Mainland of British Columbia.
A Strategic Energy Plan for the South East False Creek Sustainable Neighbourhood City of Vancouver, 2002
We conducted a review of strategic energy issues, principles, and options to support the development of an Official Development Plan for the SEFC Sustainable Neighbourhood, the last piece of undeveloped waterfront in Vancouver's downtown. We examined and provided recommendations on several strategies including enhancing building energy efficiency, enhancing use of renewable energy and on-site energy supply, developing a novel micro grid concept for the site, enhancing energy management, reducing energy use in parks and open space, and offsetting residual impacts. Provided advice on the site plan, as well as policies and other instruments to facilitate or promote sustainable energy choices for the site.
Macroeconomic Impacts of Fiscal Instruments for Carbon Policy National Roundtable for Economy and the Environment, 2004
We reviewed the macroeconomic impacts of proposed economic instruments to support long-term reductions in the carbon intensity of the energy, transportation and industrial sectors in Canada.
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Market Analysis of Clean Energy Business Opportunities Climate Solutions, 2001
We conducted an assessment of global markets for clean energy technologies and services. We evaluated potential areas for establishing industry leadership within the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington State and British Columbia). The assessment was used to develop a policy blueprint for the Northwest. The study was sponsored by several governments and agencies throughout the region.
Net Metering Policy Analysis BC Hydro, 2002
Analyzed the potential costs and benefits of a net metering policy in British Columbia to support a tariff decision by the B.C. Utilities Commission on a possible tariff. This projected involved reviewing design and experience of net metering policies in other jurisdictions; assessing the levelized customer and societal costs of small, on-site electricity production technologies in B.C.; evaluating resource potential for these technologies; evaluating possible customer uptake given customer economics; and evaluating possible impacts on the electricity system and environmental outcomes such as local air and greenhouse gas emissions; and making recommendations regarding possible tariff designs and impacts in B.C.
City of Kamloops Community Energy Plan BC Energy Aware Committee, 1996
Identified and evaluated policy and resource options for a community energy plan for the City of Kamloops, including supply side, demand side and urban land use and transportation options. Conducted a quantitative assessment of costs, reduction potential, and environmental benefits for various greenhouse gas reduction opportunities. Included assessment of water conservation and solid waste reduction opportunities. This project resulted in the first comprehensive community energy plan in BC.
Compass Resource Management Ltd. - Corporate Profile Page 5 Clients
Our client base encompasses corporations, government agencies, regulators, utilities, industry associations, and non-governmental organizations.
- The World Bank - Vancouver Olympic Organizing - United Nations Development Committee Program - B.C. Ministry of Environment - Environment Canada - BC Ministry of Forests - National Roundtable for the - B.C. Utilities Commission Environment and the Economy - BC Hydro - Industry Canada - Teresen - Natural Resources Canada - City of Vancouver - Department of Fisheries and Oceans - City of Kamloops - Canadian Forest Services - Union of BC Municipalities - US Environmental Protection - BC Energy Council Agency - British Columbia Green Economy - US National Science Foundation Secretariat - China Council on International - David Suzuki Foundation Cooperation on Environment and - Pembina Institute for Development. Appropriate Development - Greater Vancouver Regional - Solar Energy Society of Canada District - Council for Sustainability, - Capital Regional District Whistler Centre for Business and the Arts
Detailed references are available on request.
Please contact us at: Suite 200 – 1260 Hamilton St. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6B 2S8
Telephone: (604) 641-2875 Fax: (604) 641-2878 Email: [email protected] Worldwide Web : http://www.compassrm.com
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Trent Michael Berry , MRM Partner, Compass Resource Management Ltd.
2nd Floor - 1260 Hamilton St. Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6B 2S8 Tel: (604) 641-2875 Fax: (604) 641-2878 e-mail: [email protected] Overview of Skills
• Interdisciplinary background in economics, science, planning, and management. • Strong analytical skills: financial and economic evaluation, statistical analysis, computer modeling, forecasting and wide range of quantitative decision analysis techniques. • Diverse experience in energy (gas and electricity), water, wastewater, forestry, air, land use planning, technology and health sectors. • Demonstrated project management and team building skills, including conflict resolution and group facilitation. • Excellent oral and written communications. Fluent in German. Proficient in French. • Extensive computer skills including spreadsheets (Excel, VBA), databases (Access), risk and decision analysis (@Risk, Decision Tools Suite), and statistical analysis packages (SAS).
Education
• Masters of Resource Management (MRM), Simon Fraser University, 1993 • Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Honours) in Land Use and Environmental Studies, University of Saskatchewan, 1990. • Numerous professional development courses in facilitation, communication, conflict resolution (mediation and negotiation), modeling and economic analysis. • Recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including a 1967 Centennial Science & Engineering Award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for outstanding achievement in Science and Engineering and a Rotary Scholarship for study in Germany.
Professional Affiliations and Appointments
• Adjunct Professor, School of Resource & Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University (1999 – present) • Member, Canadian Association of Management Consultants • Member, Association of Professional Economists of B.C. and Canadian Association of Business Economists • Member, International Association for Energy Economics • Member, Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) • Various Executive Positions (including Chair), Canadian Institute of Energy, Vancouver (1997 – 2004) • Past member of numerous other private, professional and non-profit boards.
Summary of Professional Experience
Partner , Compass Resource Management Ltd., Vancouver (1995 – present) Senior consultant and managing partner. Private and public sector assignments with senior decision makers in energy, water, wastewater, air, forestry, and land use planning involving: • Financial / socio-economic evaluation of projects, plans and policies; • Pricing and tariff design; • Regulation and policy development; • Business case preparation and business development; • Risk assessment and management; • Strategic planning; • Technology evaluation and development; • Market analysis; and • Market instruments to support environmental policy.
Adjunct Professor , School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby (1999-present) Affiliated with resource economics group. Co-supervise students’ masters projects.
Sessional Instructor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby (1992-1996) Taught a graduate course in resource and environmental economics from 1992 to 1996. Topics included financial evaluation techniques, econometrics, social costing, decision analysis and general applications of managerial economics to energy, water, minerals, forestry, and fisheries.
Instructor, Environmental Science, Capilano College, North Vancouver (1994) Developed and taught a Post-Baccalaureate course on computer modeling techniques in environmental management applications (e.g., contaminant transport and uptake, population / harvest models, etc.).
Resource Planning Coordinator, Resource Management, BC Hydro, Vancouver, B.C.(1993 – 1995) Assisted in the financial, economic and environmental evaluation of resource options for development of the company’s long-term Integrated Electricity Plan. Developed and conducted public consultation programs to support long-term planning. Developed analytical tools for integrated planning (e.g., social costing framework). Worked with local governments to implement a variety of community energy planning initiatives.
Systems Ecologist, ESSA Environmental and Social Systems Analysts Ltd., Vancouver, B.C. (1992-1993) Co-authored the first State of the Environment Report for British Columbia. Developed a conceptual monitoring design to assess the ecological integrity of the Fraser River Basin. Organized and facilitated scientific and policy workshops on Ecosystem Objectives for the Fraser River Basin, forestry-drinking water quality interactions in community watersheds, and indicators for State of the Environment Reporting. Conducted innovative statistical power analyses on water quality monitoring data in the Columbia River Basin.
Research Economist , Agricultural Economics, University of Saskatchewan (1987 – 1990) Conducted research and statistical analyses for department head related to regional economic development trends in Canada.
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Selected Consulting Assignments
• Strategic analysis of energy supply options and associated policy implications within proposed Norquay Village Neighbourhood Centre as part of City of Vancouver EcoDensity initiative (City of Vancouver).
• Building energy efficiency analysis and district energy feasibility analysis for Fraser Mills Development in Coquitlam (Beedie Group, BC Hydro, and Terasen).
• Business case for a neighbourhood energy utility for the False Creek Precinct of Vancouver (including the planned Olympic Village). Ongoing advisory services related to the creation of a city-owned NEU (City of Vancouver).
• Business case for a neighbourhood energy utility for the East Fraser Lands in Vancouver (City of Vancouver and Parklane Developers).
• Air quality analysis and permit review for a woodwaste heating plant in Vancouver (City of Vancouver).
• Advisor to Resort Municipality of Whistler on Whistler 2020 Energy Strategy and creation of Neighbourhood Energy Utility for 2010 Olympics Athletes Village (Resort Municipality of Whistler).
• Assessed the resource and economic potential for ground source heat pumps, sewer heat recovery and active solar thermal technologies throughout the Lower Mainland of British Columbia (Greater Vancouver Regional District).
• Third-party due diligence review of three proposed small hydro independent power projects for a First Nations as part of negotiations regarding First Nations accommodation (Confidential First Nations Client)
• Member of expert team that prepared 2007 BC Energy Plan Update (BC Ministry of Energy and Mines).
• Assessment of opportunities for a green building and infrastructure investment fund (Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee, City of Vancouver, Vancity, BC Hydro, Tides Foundation).
• Regulatory review of BC Hydro’s revised Electricity Purchase Agreement with Alcan (BC Utilities Commission).
• Regulatory review of Terasen Gas Vancouver Island’s proposed Mt. Hayes LNG Plant (BC Utilities Commission).
• Regulatory review of contracts awarded under BC Hydro’s 2006 Call for Tenders for new power supply (BC Utilities Commission).
• Regulatory review of BC Hydro’s 2008/09 Revenue Requirements Application (BC Utilities Commission).
• Regulatory review of BC Hydro’s 2006 Integrated Electricity Plan Application (BC Utilities Commission).
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• Regulatory review of BC Hydro’s proposed Electricity Purchase Agreement with Alcan (BC Utilities Commission).
• Regulatory review of BCTC’s Vancouver Island Transmission Reinforcement Project (BC Utilities Commission).
• Regulatory review of Kinder Morgan Inc.’s acquisition of Terasen Inc. (BC Utilities Commission).
• Regulatory review of BC Hydro’s proposed contract award to the Duke Point Power Plant on Vancouver Island (BC Utilities Commission).
• Review of the macroeconomic impacts of proposed economic instruments to support long- term reductions in the carbon intensity of the energy, transportation and industrial sectors in Canada (National Round Table for Environment and the Economy).
• Regulatory impact assessment of proposed VOC regulations under CEPA for Household Products, Personal Care Products, Automotive Aftermarket Products, and Adhesives (Environment Canada).
• Development of a management tool for ranking discretionary biodiversity conservation projects in the province of British Columbia (Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection).
• Assessment of cost impacts and competitiveness issues associated with proposed changes to New Substance Notification Regulations and Fees under CEPA 1999 (Environment Canada).
• Cost benefit analysis of Environment Canada’s proposed risk management strategy for 2- Methyethoxyanol under CEPA 1999 (Environment Canada).
• Economic and environmental review of Burrard Thermal Generating Facility (MLA Burrard Thermal Options Committee).
• Ongoing (multi-year) policy development, technical support, and staff training related to strategic risk management and risk assessment practices and policies (BC Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection).
• Analysis of the costs and benefits of hydronic heating compared to electric heating in new multi-family residential construction in the Lower Mainland of B.C. (Terasen, City of Vancouver, Natural Resources Canada).
• Cost benefit analysis of Environment Canada’s proposed risk management strategy for discharges of Nonylphenol and its Ethoxylates (NP and NPE) under CEPA 1999 (Environment Canada).
• A 5-year review of the impact of fees on industrial liquid waste discharges in the GVRD (Greater Vancouver Regional District).
• Wildfire risk assessment and multi-attribute trade-off analysis of fuel management options in southern B.C. (a research project funded by B.C.’s Forestry Innovation Investment).
• Analysis of the potential costs and benefits of a net metering policy for British Columbia to support a decision by the B.C. Utilities Commission on a possible tariff (BC Hydro).
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• Development of a new template for preparing business cases for contract purchases and sales. Staff training on using the template (Powerex).
• Preparation of a high-level Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of alternative energy sources to support discussions of the possible value and role of LCA in BC Hydro’s Integrated Electricity Planning process and other operating decisions (BC Hydro).
• Assessment of resource and economic potential for ground source heat pumps, sewer heat recovery and active solar thermal technologies in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia (Greater Vancouver Regional District).
• Advice on the use of structured decision making methods and tools for completing several controversial species-at-risk recovery plans in British Columbia (B.C. Species at Risk Coordinating Office).
• Analysis of the current and projected markets for green energy in western North America (Powerex).
• Design of a forecasting process / tool for estimating net income and cash flow risks from electricity trading operations. Assistance in managing IT solution provider (Powerex).
• Evaluation of alternative policy mechanisms to promote increased renewable energy supply in B.C. (B.C. Ministry of Energy and Mines).
• Review British Columbia’s Contaminated Sites Legislation against best practices of science- based approaches to risk management (B.C. Ministry of Water, Air Lands and Parks).
• Policy analysis and discussion paper for a remote electrification policy in B.C. (BC Hydro)
• Structure and facilitate senior management workshop on possible options for revising the Wildlife Act (B.C. Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection).
• Strategic community energy plan for a proposed model sustainable community in the South East False Creek neighbourhood (City of Vancouver).
• Recommendations on socio-economic evaluation methods for new water supply projects. Support on development of a multi-attribute evaluation tool (spreadsheet model) for assessing social and environmental impacts based on technical performance and value preferences (GVRD).
• Project plan and implementation support for updating regional Air Quality Management Plan. Development of multi-attribute framework for evaluating air quality management alternatives. Support in developing scenarios around baseline emission forecasts (GVRD).
• Review and analysis of the current status and market outlook for distributed generation technologies in North America (BC Gas).
• Global assessment of markets for clean energy technologies and services from the Pacific Northwest (Climate Solutions sponsored by the governments of B.C., Washington and Oregon).
• Evaluation of opportunities for economic policy instruments to support regional environmental management efforts (GVRD).
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• Review and evaluation of opportunities for liquid discharge trading (GVRD Sewerage and Drainage District).
• Preparation of a forest sector development study (Cowichan First Nations).
• Preparation of a collaborative research strategy to address climate change and air quality issues (Gas Research Institute of Canada).
• Evaluation of measures for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions and other ecological impacts associated with provincial government operations (B.C. Green Economy Secretariat)
• International review of Renewable Portfolio Standards (China Council for International Cooperation on the Environment and Development).
• Scenario planning process to explore and plan for possible impacts of green energy technologies and policies on business strategy (BC Hydro).
• Economic evaluation of a net metering policy to support grid-connected distributed renewable generators for a major Canadian electrical utility (BC Hydro).
• Financial and economic evaluation of a public-private partnership to construct and operate a medium-scale electricity generation facility in southwestern British Columbia utilizing landfill gas (Blue Sky Energy).
• Review and evaluation of market instruments for advancing environmental and social objectives in energy markets (China Council for International Cooperation on the Environment and Development).
• Expert testimony on lessons from the Vancouver Island Gas Pipeline project for Nova Scotia Gas Hearings (Canadian Oil Heat Association).
• Review of program evaluation needs and techniques for federal energy efficiency programs (Natural Resources Canada).
• Advice on the determination prices for existing electricity supplies and for stimulating competition for new electricity supply within the province, including performance-based approaches to contracting existing supply (Ministère des Ressources Naturelles du Québec).
• Design options and impacts of new industrial wastewater fees (GVRD Sewerage and Drainage District).
• Long-term business strategy for green energy investments and programs (BC Hydro).
• Scenario analysis of potential impacts of new distributed generation technologies on gas utilities (BC Gas).
• Strategic analyses of recent electricity market reforms in Alberta, Ontario, the U.S. Pacific Northwest, California, the United Kingdom, and Scandinavia (BC Hydro).
• Development of an eco-efficiency index for use in a corporate scorecard (BC Hydro).
• Business case for a proposed joint venture to build a district energy system in North Vancouver (BC Hydro).
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• Support for developing a bid to provide power supply and related services to the Interior Municipal Electrical Utilities of B.C. (BC Hydro).
• Design options for a potential green power rate in the province of British Columbia (BC Hydro).
• Evaluation of the financial and non-financial implications of various load retention and load attraction schemes (BC Hydro).
• Design and contract options for market-based electricity pricing for industrial customers (BC Hydro).
• International review and evaluation of alternative transmission and distribution rate design options (BC Hydro).
• Development of an analytical framework for evaluating the impact of strategic environmental initiatives on the long-term financial and non-financial value (BC Hydro).
• Analytical and policy support on the B.C. Taskforce for Electricity Market Reform (BC Hydro Senior Executives and Taskforce Chair).
• Evaluation of alternative legal and financial structures for the transmission and distribution business units (BC Hydro).
• Socio-economic evaluation of alternative management strategies for food waste management (GVRD).
• National discussion paper and recommendations for enhancing competition and sustainability in energy markets through greater market symmetry among Canadian jurisdictions and sectors (BC Gas, Natural Resource Canada, Ontario Hydro, and West Kootenay Power).
• Guidelines for industry on Total Cost Assessment of Pollution Prevention (P2) options (B.C. Ministry of Environment, Environment Canada, and Industry Canada).
• Preparation of a corporate-level strategic business plan and submissions to the provincial Cabinet on electricity market structure and corporate governance (BC Hydro).
• Evaluation and recommendations on the role and opportunities for demand-side management and integrated resource planning in the Greater Victoria Water District (Special Commission on the Conservation and Protection of Greater Victoria Water Supply).
• Reviewing of BC Hydro’s Applications for Wholesale Transmission Service and new Industrial Service Options (BC Utilities Commission).
• Review of provincial electricity markets for B.C. Provincial Cabinet (BC Utilities Commission).
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Consulting –
Current Compass Resource Management (subcontracting) • Conduct data collection and analysis for a “Strategic Energy Analysis for the Proposed Norquay Village Neighbourhood Centre” as part of the City of Vancouver’s EcoDensity Initiative • Examine the overall energy opportunities for the site in order to provide the necessary context for considering district energy • Provide policy recommendations to the City to proceed with the best energy option(s) for Norquay Village
Current Planit Management Inc. (subcontracting) • Support the principal with funding proposals, feasibility studies and economic due diligence analysis for small hydro-electric projects on behalf of local governments and First Nations throughout BC
Current Community Action on Energy Efficiency Steering Committee (lead client: Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources and Fraser Basin Council) • Provide policy research and analysis support to 30 BC municipalities aiming to advance energy efficiency in new buildings through private sector policy instruments • Co-author (with Michael Wilson, Community Energy Association) ““Energy Efficiency and Buildings: A Resource for BC’s Local Governments” – a manual that provides an overview of local government policy tools and leading civic building operations that advance energy efficiency. • Provide input to Provincial ministries on energy efficiency policy and the local government statutory framework • Help municipalities identify practicable 3rd party rating systems for use in municipal policy development
2006 Canadian Geoexchange Coalition • Through research, analysis and extensive consultation provide Canadian municipalities with prioritized recommendations that address policy, regulatory, and market barriers facing geoexchange energy systems
2006 Sheltair Group, Municipal Action on Energy Efficiency (subcontracting) • Research and analysis for an energy efficiency policy report for the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources. The scope included bylaws, policies and development controls available to municipalities to advance energy efficiency for new construction
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2005 Parks Canada • Stakeholder engagement and consultation: Solicited input on benefits/implications of a proposed National Park Reserve in the South Okanagan/Lower Similkameen
2004/5 Natural Resources Canada, Sustainable Built Environment Group • Developed “Energy Indicators for Urban Use” discussion document: A research piece that explored the energy indicator/urban form relationship
Professional affiliations • Provisional Member, Canadian Institute of Planners (since 2004) – note: eligible to become full member
Education 2005-2007 Master of Arts – Planning (candidate), School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia. Thesis Topic: Towards Energy Efficiency for Buildings: The Role of Local Governments
Volunteer work 2004-2006 Board of Directors, B.C. Sustainable Energy Association 2005 Government of Canada – Canadian Delegation (NGO rep), United Nations Climate Change Conference, Montreal, 2005
Awards 2006 Canadian Institute of Planners’ Dillon Scholarship Award for best planning research/thesis proposal in Canada 2006 UBC School of Community and Regional Planning bursary
TZAP Profile Page 2 ECOECO--INDUSTRIALINDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONSSOLUTIONS LTDLTD WHAT IS ECO- Eco-Industrial Solutions Ltd brings together some of North America’s leading INDUSTRIAL eco-industrial networking practitioners. We work with communities and NETWORKING (EIN)? industries to develop a more economical and ecologically sound approach to industrial, commercial, governmental, institutional, and residential EIN creates collaborative networks between businesses, operations. Our expertise includes industrial ecology, sustainable community governments, and communities planning, corporate and municipal environmental management, systems to more efficiently and effectively use resources, such ecology, process engineering, eco-efficiency, and facilitation. as materials and energy, but also including land, Project Expertise infrastructure, and people. In practice, this results in:
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• Preparation of resource use baselines, • Materials and energy flows analysis targets, and performance monitoring •Process audits programs • EIN scoping & opportunity • Workshop design and facilitation assessments • Integrated land use planning • Economic, technical, environmental, • Ecological site assessments and social feasibility screening of EIN opportunities • Green technology / infrastructure scans • Research and policy analysis The Maplewood Project, District of North Vancouver
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Our approach is holistic, rigorous, and multi-disciplinary. Our practice of EIN ensures that there is a solid business case for EIN opportunities, and that social, ecological, and economic benefits are optimized. Our ultimate goal is to support sustainable businesses and communities.
Mapping Industry in Ross Eco- Industrial Park Project, Regina, SK We take EIN beyond by-product synergies. Wasted resources, whether they are materials, energy, land or infrastructure, represent an underutilized or misplaced resource. We use an ecological lens to use EIN to identify new, environmental business opportunities; support efficient and renewable energy systems; and reduce business and municipal operating costs through the incorporation of green buildings, efficient land use planning, and green processes and products..
To maximize the benefits accrued from EIN, we have developed an approach which ensures that each of the three pillars of sustainable development is addressed. We believe that Wastewater treatment in Calca, Peru the most successful EIN initiatives are based on the integration of ecological, community (social and economic), and industrial (social and economic) profiles.
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Community, ecological and industrial profiles generate business/community/site-specific information and baseline data that directly informs EIN opportunity identification, feasibility Team Master Plan from Maplewood Eco-Industrial Design Charrette. screening, cost-benefit analysis, and target setting. Ongoing stakeholder engagement and capacity building ensures opportunities have broad support and are likely to generate benefits. Our Current & Recent Projects
Maplewood Community Eco-Industrial Hinton Eco-Industrial Park, Hinton, AB – Partnership Project (Dist. of N. Van) –Proposed New, industrial park for a greenfield, unserviced EID in 550-acre area with residential, commercial, site in a small, resource-based community. EIN industrial, and ecologically sensitive areas along advisors for conceptual planning, business and Burrard Inlet. Key first steps involved facility audits, an site planning; infrastructure design and planning; assessment of EIN potential, and a Design Charette marketing; and construction phases. (maplewoodproject.org) (www.eip.hinton.ca) Maplewood Design Charrette
Implementing EIN in Ross Industrial Park, Eco-Industrial AuditTM of a SaskTel Facility, Regina, SK – Working with local businesses (The SK - Using an understanding of the materials and Regina Eco-Industrial Networking Association) and energy flows, and the way in which these flows partners like Communities of Tomorrow to identify EIN affect operations, to identify and evaluate opportunities for sustainable transportation (e.g. site resource efficiency, by-product synergy, and other planning/design; business practices; and/or renewable EIN opportunities for SaskTel. Since completion, fuel pilot projects) in an industrial park with more than SaskTel has achieved 970,828 KWhr/yr energy 400 businesses. savings; purchased 3 hybrid service trucks; and developed a green purchasing policy. <6 month Feasibility Study for Green Wastewater payback! Treatment Plant, Brazeau County, AB – EID Opportunities for Kunshan, China Technology screening, eco-industrial opportunity Tilbury Eco-Industrial Partnership Project, assessment, and design of a new solar aquaticsTM Delta, BC – Working with local businesses to wastewater treatment facility in the tiny Hamlet of retrofit EIN principles into an existing industrial Cynthia (pop. ~55). System will be one of the first park (>600 businesses). Stakeholder to operate in such cold climates and could lead to engagement & capacity building workshop more distributed and ecological wastewater attended by ~40 businesses some of which have treatment systems in cold climates elsewhere. since become members of the advisory committee. Phase 2 (technical baseline study) has been officially launched and funding proposals Eco-Industrial Network Solutions for are being prepared. Stormwater & Liquid Waste Management in Greater Vancouver - Study to evaluate eco-industrial Development of a Sustainable Industries opportunities, and demand side management benefits Existing WW Treatment Lagoon in Performance Indicators Framework of, storm- and wastewater management at industrial Hamlet of Cynthia, Brazeau (Industry Canada) – In order to more County operations. accurately measure baselines and set targets for EIN projects in industrial areas, developed a Smart Growth on the Ground Design Charrette, series of 72 indicators that are measureable and Squamish, BC – Participated in 4-day charrette. comparable across industrial areas. Provided EIN opportunities from a physical, sustainable community design perspective. Conceptual plan Applying EIN to a Sustainable Housing included opportunities for industrial densification, Policy in Mexico – Preliminary baseline shared office space, diverse building and lot sizes, assessment of Mexico’s housing industry; materials/energy exchanges, rainwater collection and identification of opportunities to apply principles treatment, and shared transportation infrastructure. of EIN, sustainable community planning and green buildings to their national housing policy. EIN in the Vilcanota Valley, Peru - Incorporating eco-industrial networking approaches as part of the Scoping Study to Identify BC Communities Inside a Solar AquaticsTM Facility Vilcanota Valley Rehabilitation and Management for Pilot Eco-Industrial Projects –Study (Case Study Photo courtesy Programme. Identifying EIN opportunities as they EcoTek Ecological Technologies, evaluated potential projects in ten communities. Inc.) relate to i) tourism capacity building and infrastructure Assessment criteria included: Impact on Social, development; ii) urban services and infrastructrure Environmental & Economic Issues; Level of rehabilitation; iii) local economic development; and iv) Support; ‘Green’ Factor; Measurable Results; strategic planning and municipal capacity building. Financing Potential; and Transferability.
Richmond EIN Projects: Concept Development – Exploring Eco-Industrial Opportunities in a Developed a concept for two EIN projects in Richmond: Portland Neighbourhood, OR –Strategy to EIN as a Strategy for Improving Business Performance; balance stream restoration and economic and Agriculture-based EIN. development in a low-income, semi-industrial neighbourhood.
EIN Small Networks Study – Worked with the Vancouver Community Network to scope potential small EID Strategies for Regional Planning in Conceptual Drawing of Business scale EIN opportunities, including information Kunshan, China – Strategic Assessment of EID Incubator in Hinton Eco-Industrial 2 Park. networking, in town centres (Hastings Sunrise; Opportunities for a 210 km master plan in Collingwood). Kunshan, China Our Team
Jim Ireland, P.Bio, CEO Jim is a well known environmental manager and has been a leader in the consulting industry in the development and promotion of industrial ecology. This work includes the Hinton eco-industrial park project; evaluating new uses for coffee waste in El Salvador; and a solar energy project in the Galapagos Islands with the EnerGreen Foundation, which he co-chairs. He is also a Director for the Eco-Industrial Development Council.
Conceptual Drawing of Maplewood Tracy Casavant, P.Eng.(Chml), M.E.S., President One of the few consultants in North America with formal training in Business Park (Maplewood Charrette, District of North.Vancouver) industrial ecology, Tracy also holds an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering, and brings an understanding of industrial operations to all EIN projects. She has worked on projects to retrofit EIN into existing industrial areas; design of new eco-industrial parks as well as international EIN projects. Tracy is also a Director for the North American Eco- Industrial Development Council.
Wendy LeBreton, BSc, M.E.S., ResResearchearch Coordinatdinatoor - Wendy is also one of North America’s few consultants with formal industrial ecology training. She is an ecologist who specialized in eco-industrial networking (EIN) during the completion of her Masters of Environmental Studies. Wendy has contributed to numerous national and international EIN projects, including a GVRD small networks project that stemmed from her thesis research. Houses on slopes above Calca, Peru
Sarah Fenwick, P.Eng. (Chml), Industrial Process Analyst - Sarah is a chemical engineer with a strong interest in the environment. Sarah provides technical support for eco-industrial networking projects, including the Maplewood Project, and more recently, a feasibility study for Brazeau County’s new ecological wastewater treatment system, which will pilot Solar AquaticsTM technology in a cold climate.
Conceptual Plan for Hinton Eco- Industrial Park, Hinton, AB Our Associates
We work with a consortium of engineers, planners, economists & ecologists. Our associates include the following firms:
ERIN Consulting Ltd. is a Regina-based environmental consulting firm, with a focus on ecological management. ERIN staff have expertise ranging from biology to engineering and planning. Clients include companies in oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, education, communications, public housing, and government sectors. Services include environmental The Maplewood Project, District of auditing; ecological site assessments; site remediation, including phytoremediation; and development and delivery of North Vancouver ecological monitoring programs. ERIN has been involved in the Hinton Eco-Industrial Park, Brazeau SASTM, and Ross Eco-Industrial Park projects, and is a member of the Regina Eco-Industrial Networking Association.
Holland Barrs Planning Group Ltd. is a Vancouver-based planning firm committed to the creation of great communities with enduring appeal. The firm has expertise in public policy, community planning, urban design, development planning and approvals, project management, organizational development and public process, with a special focus on sustainable development. The company has been involved in the Maplewood Project as well as the Hinton eco- Industrial Park. Both principals are LEEDTM certified professionals.
Maplewood Design Charrette
318 Homer St, Suite 506 Vancouver, B.C. Canada, V6B 2V2 604-737-8506 [email protected] www.ecoindustrial.ca #200, 2825 Saskatchewan Dr Regina, SK. Canada, S4T 1H3 306-789-9799 [email protected]
WENDY LEBRETON, MES, B.SC, SUSTAINABILITY ANALYST ECO-INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS LTD.
Wendy is an ecologist who specialized in eco-industrial networking during the completion of her Masters of Environmental Studies at Dalhousie University. Wendy has more than six years experience in ecology, environmental biology, environmental education, and sustainable development. Most recently, she is taking on project management roles for projects.
As Sustainability Analyst for Eco-Industrial Solutions, Wendy has contributed to numerous eco-industrial projects, including the design and development management of two greenfield eco-industrial parks in Alberta; eco-industrial park retrofit projects across Canada; as well as region-scale eco-industrial strategies. Wendy’s expertise ranges from strategic planning and policy for eco-industrial developments, marketing and communications, resource baseline analyses, and green infrastructure systems. She developed Industry Canada’s sustainable industries performance indicator framework and is applying the framework to several projects including the Greater Sudbury Regional EI Strategy and Ross Eco-Industrial Park. Wendy is well- versed in EIN and industrial ecology projects world-wide and brings this perspective to all of our eco- industrial development projects.
SELECT ECO-INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS
TaigaNova Eco-Industrial Park. Design and US Green Building Council Climate Change Toolkit development management of Fort McMurray Eco- for U.S. Municipalities. Contributing to the design, Industrial Park. Included market analysis; design of an outline, and content development of an online tool. Our innovative and equitable sales strategy; as well as green role is primarily with respect to green infrastructure infrastructure design and site-specific design guidelines. systems and technologies.
Spruce Grove Eco-Industrial Plan. Eco-Industrial Maple Ridge Area Structure Plan. Informing the ASP planning tool and industrial development marketing process by identifying eco-industrial opportunities strategy for a community near Edmonton, AB. including ways to incorporate green infrastructure onsite.
EIN Strategy for City of Greater Sudbury. To assist Ross Eco-Industrial Park, Regina, SK. Applying an Sudbury in identifying and facilitating resource synergies EIN approach to identifying sustainable transportation among private and public sector businesses and opportunities for the park of ~500 businesses. Included institutions. The EIN Strategy will facilitate new economic the completion of one of the most comprehensive development related to environmental businesses and the resource baselines ever completed for an industrial park / implementation of renewable energy solutions. area in North America.
Innovista Eco-Industrial Park, Hinton, Alberta – Eco-Industrial Network Solutions for Stormwater & Supporting sales and marketing activities for the Hinton Liquid Waste Management in GVRD – Researched EIP. Managing the development and ongoing operation of ecological storm- and wastewater treatment and the project website; created a Native Plants Landscaping management practices and case studies. Identified Guide, and contributed to the Developer’s Resource potential triple bottom line and demand side management Guide. benefits of eco-industrial approaches.
Performance Indicators for Eco-Industrial Park and Maplewood Community Eco-Industrial Assessment Sustainable Industries, Industry Canada. The result & Design Charette (District of N. Vancouver) - of this project is a framework of performance indicators to Maplewood plans to incorporate EIN in its sustainable allow benchmarking and comparison of financial, energy, community plans. Facility audits, assessment of eco- materials, water, land use & transportation, and corporate industrial potential, and a multi-stakeholder Design & municipal governance performance. Charette.
Eco-Industrial Master Plan, AB Industrial Heartland Brazeau Solar Aquatics Feasibility Study. Technology Association. Completed an international scan of region- screening, eco-industrial opportunity assessment, and scale eco-industrial and/or sustainable development design of a new solar aquaticsTM wastewater treatment planning exercises; reviewed AIH member municipalities’ facility in the Hamlet of Cynthia. Role included a detailed bylaws, policies, and strategies; and supported scoping a market assessment for the plants grown in the facility, framework for a regional eco-industrial master plan for and a proposed community education program that the AIHA. This plan will cover a 194 km2 region that will constituted part of the demand side management see more than $25 billion in industrial development in the strategy. next 5 years.
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EDUCATION
Master of Environmental Studies (M.E.S.), September, 2003 School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS Thesis – Improving a Community’s Environment and Economy Through Eco-Industrial Networking – The Case of Langley, B.C.
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), May 2001 Ecology & Environmental Biology, University of British Columbia Directed Studies Project – The Stunted Growth of Industrial Ecology and the Role of Transaction Costs
WORK EXPERIENCE
Sustainability Analyst, Eco-Industrial Solutions, Ltd., Vancouver, BC (present) • Project Management • Sales & Marketing design and delivery for eco-industrial park projects • Eco-Industrial strategic planning and policy • Design and develop a database of eco-industrial networking projects worldwide • Coordination of workshops, roundtables, other meetings • Write proposals; report; grant/funding applications • Facilitate eco-industrial workshops
Coordinator, Eco-Efficiency Centre, Burnside Industrial Park, Halifax, N.S. (Mar-June ’03) • Contracted by the centre to organize the 4th Annual Environmental Excellence in Business Awards Breakfast • Researching and interviewing award nominees for their environmental achievements • Writing up company ‘success stories’, designing event program booklet, and writing press releases
WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES, & PRESENTATIONS
• International Society for Industrial Ecology 2007. Speaker. Measuring Eco-Industrial Performance. Toronto, ON. • 2005 Summit: Strategic Use of Information and Communications Technology for Communities – Speaker • EIDC Roundtable (District of North Vancouver) Sept, 2004 – Planned event; facilitated panels • Tilbury Eco-Industrial Partnership Launch Workshop – Coordinated the workshop and facilitated breakout groups • World Urban Forum 2006 Pre-Planning Session – Participant • Americana 2003, Montreal, P.Q. – Student Ambassador for the Canadian Council of Human Resources in the Environment Industry (CCHREI). Designed and presented a poster of thesis research during the 3 day symposium • Shell Canada Sustainable Development Roundtable, Dalhousie University, N.S. – Student Representative
PUBLICATIONS
• LeBreton, W., Côté, R., and T. Casavant. 2004. “Small Scale Eco-Industrial Networking - Inter-Organizational Collaboration to Yield System-Wide Benefits in Communities”. Progress in Industrial Ecology - An International Journal. Vol. 1. Number 4, pp. 432-453.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
• Connecting Environmental Professionals (Vancouver Chapter of YEP Canada) - Coordinator • 24H Ultimate for Alzheimer’s Event – Planning Committee member • School for Resource and Environmental Studies (SRES) Student Society – Chair • Student Joint Project (SRES & Bluenose Atlantic Coastal Action Programme) – Designed an “ecological action calendar” for landowners in Mahone Bay, N.S. Educated landowners about the environmental value of the islands of Mahone Bay. The calendar was well received and is being widely distributed throughout Nova Scotia. • Sydney 2000 Olympic Opening & Closing Ceremonies – Assistant Stage Manager
2 Eco-Industrial Solutions, Ltd Suite 501, 318 Homer St., Vancouver, BC V6B 2V2 Tel. 604.737.8506 E-Mail: [email protected]
Shaun Martin Consulting
The following are typical new building projects undertaken by the firm:
FACULTY STAFF HOUSING PHASE 1 - A 6388 HAWTHORN LANE UBC Properties Trust Low-rise MURB
Complete energy modeling was completed in 2000/2001 for Phase 1 (Building A) using DOE 2.1E software. The objective of the modelling was to inform the designers of the potential energy efficiency of the buildings A and B, and to evaluate various energy efficiency measures. The modeling results were used to inform the designers on future phases of construction.
Building A and B were constructed in 2001, and consisted of row townhomes, two-level cityhomes and one and two bedroom apartments. Phase II (Building C) was completed in 2002 and provided an additional 36 one, two and three bedroom apartment units. Phase III (Building D) was completed in Summer 2004. It consists of 60 one, two and three bedroom apartment units. Phase IV was completed in December 2006, consisting of two and three bedroom apartments as well as two-level cityhomes.
VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL ACADEMIC AND AMBULATORY CARE CENTER Design Load Analysis (EnergyPlus), Building Permit Submission, CBIP submission
The Academic Ambulatory Care Centre is public-private partnership healthcare facility intended to to coordinate VGH’s ambulatory patient care services – including specialty clinics, along with medical education, physician teaching
SHAUN MARTIN CONSULTING Building Energy Simulation Modeling • Green Building Consulting 504 – 318 Homer Street , Vancouver, BC V6B 2V2 • T. 604-789-1095 • E. [email protected] clinics and research – at one site. The AACC will benefit an estimated 600,000 patients annually and support several hundred medical students and approximately 500 medical and allied professionals.
The Design Load Analysis was primarily a thermal comfort and radiant heating/cooling study. The software used was EnergyPlus. The study confirmed that the proposed envelope and systems design would produce an acceptable indoor environment.
The CBIP results place the building at 72.7% of the Model National Energy Code for Buildings, and project annual energy savings close to $100,000 per year.
EMBASSY DEVELOPMENTS 2301 - 6TH AVE, SEATTLE BP Energy Modelling LEED Energy Modelling
2301-6th Avenue is a full-block development consisting of two major residential towers, 7 residential connecting floors above a main floor retail and lobby level, and 2-½ stories of parkade. Perimeter residential and retail spaces on floors 1 through 8 surround core area parking zones that are unconditioned.
The new Seattle 2301-6th Avenue building was proven to meet the Seattle Energy Code and, at present, meets the requirements for credit under LEED EA credit 1, Optimize energy Efficiency. The models were developed using the ASHRAE 90.1-2004 Performance Rating Method as specified in Appendix G. Both the budget and design energy cases were modeled in eQuest (version 3.60).
Final LEED modelling is expected to show the building to achieve two EA credit 1 points.
SHAUN MARTIN CONSULTING Building Energy Simulation Modeling • Green Building Consulting 504 – 318 Homer Street , Vancouver, BC V6B 2V2 • T. 604-789-1095 • E. [email protected]
S H A U N M A R T I N C O N S U L T I N G Energy and Resource Analysis • Green Building Consulting
Elisa Campbell, B.A., B.Arch, LEED AP
Elisa Campbell specializes in research, design and implementation activities associated with sustainable communities, as well as green building design, research, and facilitation consulting. Her scope of work includes the full range of activities associated with planning, designing and constructing buildings and communities that achieve an economic, social and ecological balance. This includes assisting with all aspects of an integrated design process, as well as the preparation and facilitation of design charrettes. As a LEED Accredited Professional, Elisa has worked with a wide range of teams and organizations on the design and certification of green buildings, as well as on research projects related to LEED, green building specifications, and the market penetration of high performance buildings.
Selected Projects
Town of Banff Green Site and Building Guidelines (Ongoing) Surrey Sustainable Buildings Manual (Ongoing) Green Municipal Funds Peer Review Committee (Ongoing) Assessment of Green Building Technologies for BC Parks Facilities (2005) Assessment of Tools for Rating the Performance of Existing Buildings (2005) Translink E-Burne Transit Facility (2004) Squamish Downtown Waterfront Concept Plan (2003-04) Overcoming Non-Regulatory Barriers to Green Buildings (2003-04) Yukon Renewable Energy Integrated Design Charrette (2003) Whistler Public Library and Museum / Archives (2002-03) Woodlands Redevelopment (2002-03) Yukon Arts Centre : Green Building Competition (2002) Bowen Island Cottage Housing Community (2002) citiesPLUS (2001-03) Whistler Spring Creek Firehall (2001-02) Sechelt Social Health and Development Centre (2001-02) Whistler Environmental Strategy: Indicators, Benchmarks and Targets (2000-01) Environmentally Sustainable Development Guidelines for Southeast False Creek (1997-98)
2840 West 11th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6K 2M1 Tel: (604) 789-1095 * [email protected] 1001-207 Hastings Street West Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6B 1H7 Phone: (604) 601-2513 Fax: (604) 684-1312 E-mail: [email protected]
ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE
West Coast Environmental Law is BC’s legal champion for the environment. We are the only legal organisation in BC that analyses the law and develops strategies to empower and mobilise communities and reform the law in order to bring about progressive change. Our ten year vision is that laws and practices affecting BC in land, resource and community development will enshrine democratic decision- making, recognition and respect of Aboriginal title and rights, and ecological sustainability.
We inform and empower citizens to understand the laws and regulations that affect their environments and participate effectively in the processes affecting them. Our online and print publications are integral to this work and are highly sought by members of the public.
We work with First Nations allies to codify traditional knowledge and laws and we represent them in government to government negotiations with respect to land use planning in their traditional territories. West Coast works with local governments to provide tools and legal and technical expertise to make change at the community level. Our model bylaws have been utilised and implemented in communities throughout BC and our assistance is increasingly requested. Our current work focuses on forestry; oil and gas development; smart growth; and green infrastructure and buildings. All of it is aimed at striking a sustainable balance between our built and natural environments, and protecting ecologically significant habitats in communities and in nature.
RELATED PROJECTS
• Ongoing - staff counsel for an environmental organization. Project lead for West Coast’s Liveable and Sustainable Communities program. • Author of the following relevant Guides: o Green Buildings Guide (2006) (content is also extensively reproduced in the Canada Green Building Council’s Municipal Green Building Toolkit) o Green Infrastructure Guide (2007) o (in process) updating West Coast’s web-based Smart Bylaws Guide • West Coast is party to an MOU with the District of Squamish and Smart Growth BC to work with Squamish on implementation of the Smart Growth on the Ground concept plan. • West Coast is one of the founding members of the Green Infrastructure Partnership (GIP), a partnership of West Coast, the Water Sustainability Committee of the BC Water & Waste Association, the Master Municipal Construction Documents Association and the Ministry of Community Services. More information on the GIP’s activities is available online at http://www.waterbucket.ca/gi but one of the GIP’s most successful activities to date has been a workshop and field trip series entitled “Showcasing Green Infrastructure Innovation,” designed to showcase green infrastructure successes. The series is now in its second year. • Susan Rutherford has also been retained as counsel and provided advice on other projects in the subject area of sustainable energy and green building policy/planning, but due to solicitor-client privilege, she is not at liberty to disclose the details of these projects
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SUSAN RUTHERFORD, Barrister & Solicitor
PERSONAL PROFILE
Susan works with communities and local governments to promote local government bylaws and policy tools that support smart growth. This work includes researching and/or promoting tools to: encourage compact, complete communities; integrate sustainability principles and planning into decision-making processes; avoid or reduce land use conflicts; encourage public participation in decision-making processes; encourage and support green buildings and “green infrastructure”; and encourage fiscal sustainability. Susan holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Political Studies from Queen’s University and a Bachelor of Laws from York University’s Osgoode Hall. Prior to joining West Coast, Susan operated a sole practice in Vancouver.
PROFESSIONAL STATUS
Member of the Law Society of British Columbia Member of the Canadian Bar Association
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Laws, Osgoode Hall, York University, Toronto, ON, 1992. Bachelor of Arts (Honours Political Studies), Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, 1987.
RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT
Staff Counsel, West Coast Environmental Law, Vancouver, Canada, from September 2004. Currently leading West Coast’s “Liveable and Sustainable Communities” program area. Broad focus on legal/policy strategies for implementing smart growth at the local government level, promoting compact, complete communities and protecting BC’s agricultural landscape; specific current focus on promoting laws/policy to support green infrastructure and green building development, as a means to reduce our community impact on water, land and energy resources and related ecosystems. Also experienced and active on environmental assessment and public participation issues, and linkages with laws supporting best practices in resource development and sustainable energy development.
Lawyer and Principal, Susan Rutherford, Barrister & Solicitor (Environmental Law Practice), Vancouver, Canada, 2000 to September 2004. Provided legal representation, and legal and policy research and advice to individuals and groups working with legal-environmental issues. Practice encompassed provincial, federal and international laws and policies, as well as local government bylaws and powers affecting the environment. Specifically experienced / interested in laws, policy and reform initiatives concerning: • Land use planning / activity regulation (ongoing involvement in a coalition-based law reform project to obtain licensing, registration and responsible legislation for motorized off-road vehicles) • Agricultural practices and environmental effects • Conservation strategies for land and marine environments, wildlife • Promotion of renewable energy alternatives; reduction of fossil fuel reliance • Biodiversity and species protection • Environmental assessment (EA) and planning • Public participation processes in EA • First Nations rights and title; government and industry duties of consultation
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Lawyer and Principal, Susan Rutherford, Barrister & Solicitor (Contract Research and Litigation), Vancouver, Canada, 1996 to 2000. Researched and prepared legal briefs, chambers applications and pleadings; conducted witness interviews and examinations for discovery. Focused on insurance, personal injury and tort law. Worked in-house as locum litigation counsel for Dolden Walker Folick, Vancouver, BC for two 6- month maternity leaves (in 1997 and 2000 respectively).
Associate, Torkin Manes Cohen & Arbus, Toronto, Canada, 1994 to 1995. Practiced in areas of residential and commercial real estate law, professional liability, and commercial, employment and estate litigation. Worked as an articled student at this full service firm (1993 - 1994), prior to joining the firm as an associate lawyer.
COLLABORATIVE/BOARD/VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Dec 2004 – present Stakeholder representative, The Canadian Environmental Assessment Act Regulatory Advisory Committee to the Minister of Environment Dec 2004 – 2006 Stakeholder representative, BC Hydro Provincial Integrated Electricity Planning Committee Fall 2004 – Fall 2006 Co-Chair, Environmental Planning and Assessment Caucus, Canadian Environmental Network
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS
Rutherford, Susan, The Green Infrastructure Guide, Vancouver: West Coast Environmental Law, May 2007.
Rutherford, Susan, The Green Buildings Guide: Tools for Local Governments to Promote Site Sustainability, Vancouver: West Coast Environmental Law, October 2006.
Campbell. Karen and Rutherford, Susan, Coalbed Methane A BC Local Government Guide, Vancouver: West Coast Environmental Law, May 2006.
Rutherford, Susan, Groundwater Use in Canada, Toronto: Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation and Vancouver: West Coast Environmental Law, March 2005. Available online at: http://www.gordonfn.org/Buried_Treasure/resfiles/Groundwater_Use.pdf
Rutherford, Susan, Putting the Assumptions to the Test. An examination of the Science Panel’s assumptions that regulations would protect our ocean from the negative impacts of coastal oil and gas development, Living Oceans Society and David Suzuki Foundation, November 2004.
Rutherford. Susan, and Campbell, Karen, Time Well Spent? A Survey of Public Participation in Federal Environmental Assessment Panels, Vancouver: West Coast Environmental Law, February 2004 (also published in abbreviated form in the Journal of Environmental Law and Practice, Fall 2004.
North West Environmental Group Ltd. and Rutherford, Susan, Solutions for a Sustainable Future – Interim Report, Coalition for Licensing and Registration of Off-Road Vehicles, August 4, 2004.
Rutherford, Susan, Protect BC’s Grasslands by Supporting the Adoption of an ATV Law and Strategy Now!, BC Grasslands, at pp. 8-9, August 2002.
Beckett, Janine, Riccius, Eva, and Rutherford, Susan, A Citizen’s Guide to Park & Protected Area Management in British Columbia, Vancouver: CPAWS-BC, December 2001. Available online at: http://www.cpawsbc.org/pdfs/citizens_guide.pdf
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Rutherford, Susan, Northern BC Diary, 13 Parks & Wilderness Quarterly No. 3 at pp. 6-7, 2001.
Rutherford, Susan, Alternatives for Regulation of All-Terrain Vehicles in BC, Vancouver: CPAWS-BC and West Coast Environmental Law, July 2001. Available online at: http://www.cpawsbc.org/pdfs/atv.pdf
Dolden, Eric A. and Rutherford, Susan, Handling ‘Cross-Border’ D & O Claims Involving Canada and the United States, 17 Can. J. Ins. L. Nos. 4 and 5, July 1999.
Dolden, Eric A. and Rutherford, Susan, The Development of Employment Practices Liability Insurance in Canada, 1998 Int. I.L.R.383. Rutherford, Susan, Canada: insurance – directors and officers liability, 1997 Int. I.L.R.. G103 (Case comment re: Coronation Insurance v. Clearly Canadian Beverage Corp. et al. (B.C.S.C., 1997)).
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HB Holland Barrs Planning Group Inc.
September 19, 2007
Sabina FooFat Planning Department District of Squamish 37957 2nd Ave Squamish BC V0N 3G0
Dear Ms FooFat:
Re: Budget Addendum to the Community Energy Action Plan Proposal
Thank you for the opportunity to submit an amended budget. The Plan’s goals are very ambitious and advancing the development of many of the sub-projects, particularly the three Catalyst Projects in Stream 1.B, will be very demanding even within a $155,000 budget. We, therefore, encourage the District to consider approving an additional $10,000 towards the Plan.
We are confident, nevertheless, that our team can provide exceptional value for money. One of the reasons we are interested in working with the District is precisely because of its ambitious vision.
There are a number of ways to deliver this project on $145,000. Our preferred approach would be to determine this collaboratively with the client. Attached, however, is our initial recommendation for an amended $145,000 budget.
Sincerely,
Alex Boston Senior Climate & Energy Analyst
#505-318 Homer St., Vancouver, BC., V6B 2V2, Canada | T: 604-688-9769 | F:604-688-9764 | www.hollandbarrs.com
Potential Budget Amendments Overview
If the District is unable to approve an additional $10,000, Holland Barrs recommends the following budget amendments.
• Reduce by $4,000 the Building Efficiency Strategy – Municipal Sector
This would involve scaled back versions of the “Upgrade Analysis” and “Recommended Implementation and Policy Schedule” in the report for each building. The advice provided would focus on providing strategic guidance for next steps and major considerations, but finer details would be omitted.
• Reduce by $3,000 the Building Efficiency Strategy – New Build
This would involve scaling back the degree of localization of the best practice guide on energy efficiency in new detached SFH and duplexes, the builders’ and homeowners’ guide on constructing energy efficient homes, and the communications and learning material for staff and the public. The optimal strategy would be identifying the most appropriate existing resources, which in many cases could involve some adaptation. Our emphasis, however, will be as much on “how” to use such resources versus “what” should be done. The practical implementation of new sustainability initiatives is often underemphasized and is where many institutions falter.
• Reduce by $2,000 the Smart Growth Block Catalyst Plan
This would involve scaling back the financial analysis recommendations and guidance on District income generating opportunities from the project.
• Reduce by $1,000 the Master Project (Project Management and Final Report)
This would involve simplifying the delineation of priorities in the 5 – 10 year action plan, particularly on longer-term actions. For example, rather than breaking out in detail the exploration of financing sustainable energy activity through selling offsets, only the major task areas would be described.
Potential CAEE Budget Implications
If the above budget amendments seem problematic because of CAEE terms of reference, some of the work on the district energy system as well as the Smart Growth Block could be integrated into the building efficiency deliverables. Our knowledge of the CAEE suggests this would be acceptable and, in fact, applauded by the Province.
Specifically, Compass Resource Management’s district energy system analysis provides considerable insight into building efficiency considerations for optimal district energy systems.
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Additionally, Holland Barrs has done some novel work updating character and form guidelines with the explicit objective of improving energy efficiency or displacing heat and electricity needs. These considerations could be incorporated into the Smart Growth Block and also integrated into the Building Efficiency Strategy sub-projects.
Potential Budget Amendments
The following budget incorporates the potential amendments discussed above.
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