Firehall #17, Vancouver, Canada

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Firehall No 17 is the first carbon-zero firehall in Canada.

CES was hired by the City of Vancouver HCMA Architects to complete Total Building LEED v4 BD+C Commissioning Services, including Fundamental Commissioning, Enhanced Commissioning, Monitoring Based Commissioning, as well as Passive House HRV Commissioning and Building Energy Optimization for performance optimization period of the project.

This project involved the renovation of the existing Vancouver Firehall #17. The project was a new building which will be designed and constructed to contain Fire Hall No. 17 with approximate size of the facility to be up to 1,860 square meters (20,020 sf). The project targeted LEED™ V4 Gold certification. The building areas excluding the Apparatus bays and hose tower achieved Passive House Standard Certification. The Vancouver Firehall 17 No. 17 is the first fire hall in Canada to earn Zero Carbon Building design certification, and the first project to be certified in BC. After completion, it offered a 99,67% reduction in operational carbon emissions compared to the existing Fire Hall 17.

Firehall #17, Vancouver, Canada

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Brett Crawford

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