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Post Globe 2010
Business and Green Building
Doug Webber, P.Eng., LEED AP

2. Company Profile
300+ employees
Voted one of the Best Workplaces in
Canada for 5 years
Work with clients in the property
management, asset management,
development & construction industries.
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3. What We Do
Green Building Services:
New buildings
Existing buildings
Planning (communities, policy
work)
Building Restoration/Building
Science
Audits & Capital Planning
Structural Engineering
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4. A National Leader in Green
Building Consulting
Currently, we are pursuing certification for over 140
LEED projects including:
• in excess of $3 billion in green building projects
• 47,000,000 ft2 of LEED EB work on some of Canada’s
premier buildings
• 14,000,000 ft2 of LEED NC and CS projects
• 600,000 ft2 of LEED CI projects
• developing sustainability policies for 15
municipalities/communities
We have also developed the LEED Canada-EB standard
for the CaGBC
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5. Why Does Business Care About Green?
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6. Converging Events
1 QBtu = annual energy output of 40
1,000 MW power plants
• Source: Architecture2030.org
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7. ROI
- 39 percent of total energy use
- 12 percent of the total water consumption
- 68 percent of total electricity consumption
- 38 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions
Buildings most painless way to achieve CO2 reductions
Source: www.vattenfall.com
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8. Market Pressure
Not (only) about payback:
Energy costs are too low in North
America to be the driver for real
shift to Green
Market Pressure – Tenant
Demand for Green: Toronto
Commercial office market
precursor for other markets
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9. Regulation
Green Energy Act
• Provide transparency to building energy performance
• Feed in Tariff
GHG
• Alberta first N.A. jurisdiction to regulate GHG
emissions
• BC price of carbon: $25/tonne
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10. Measures Beyond Financial are Emerging
Pension Funds the first to demand green
certification.
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11. What Has Driven Green Buildings?
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12. Market Demands a Simple Answer to a
Complex Question
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13. Energy as the Metric
Energy a simple target linked to carbon
Benchmarking :
• Compare against market means, and
identify best practices
• The Prius Effect – we pay attention to
what is measured.
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14. Energy Intensity of of Existing Office Buildings in Toronto
Energy Intensity Existing Office Buildings in Toronto
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15. GHG Intensity for Existing Toronto Office Buildings
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Highest Emissions - 11.52 kg CO2e/sq ft
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GHG Intensity (kg CO2e/sq ft)
Toronto Mean - 6.97 kg CO2e/sq ft
Your Building
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Lowest Emissions - 4.48 kg CO2e/sq ft
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16. Transparency:
Building Energy Labeling
Poor performers will not
remain anonymous.
GBPI
NRCan
LEED EB
Energy Star
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17. What can be Learned from the
Success in Green Buildings
Successful businesses live to compete
and the market wants a simple
metric.
• Create the rules of the game.
• Announce the winners
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18. Cities May Follow a Similar Pattern
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19. Green Labelling
• In development by ICLEI
• Policy, practice, and
performance based metrics
• Designed to non-competitive
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20. Products are Next
• UK Carbon Trust leading
labeling
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21. AN INTRODUCTION
TO LOOP
5 May, 2009
Helping you turn environmental responsibility
into your competitive advantage
Loop Initiatives Inc. – a carbon neutral company
210 Gladstone Ave. Suite 3001  Ottawa, ON K2P 0Y6  t. 613.237.1480
2300 Yonge St. Suite 2300  Toronto, ON M4P 1E4  t. 416.640.7760
e. info@loopinitiatives.com w. loopinitiatives.com

22. Questions?
Halsall Associates Ltd.
www.halsall.com
Doug Webber 416.644.4925
dwebber@halsall.com
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