Timeline: 2022 onwards
The building is largely designed to house vehicles for essential services, and offsets the energy and carbon in the vehicles’ use with its net zero carbon and net zero energy targets. The building features photovoltaic roof that unifies the individual sheds of the building, providing optimal angles for solar energy capture and clerestories to the occupied interior spaces. A mass timber structure is used to reduce embodied carbon, helping the project target net zero carbon certification.
A tilted south-facing solar wall conserves a further 15 percent of the entire building’s energy. Fresh air is warmed by the south sun on the dark metal cladding, rising into energy recovery ventilators (ERVs) on the roof. The ERVs deliver the heated air to the vehicle bays through low-level displacement ventilation cabinets. High-level return air ducts draw air back to the rooftop ERVs, using latent heat to further preheat incoming air.
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Municipality: Toronto
Action: Net-zero municipal facilities and buildings
Category: Buildings