Overview

How Does Main Alley Become Canada’s First Zero Carbon Tech Campus?

  • All buildings will attain CaGBC zero carbon certification
  • A LEED campus, with M3, M4 and M5 targeting the highest certification level — LEED Platinum
  • Workspace designed to WELL-ready standard which encourages employee health and wellbeing in the workspace
  • Transit-oriented site, located just a 5 minute walk from the new Millennium-Broadway skytrain station on Main Street
In addition to being a net zero carbon building, M3 will be one of the most resilient buildings in North America.
  • Structurally designed to post-disaster standards
  • 100% back-up generators
  • N+1 redundancy in thermal energy supply.

Buildings

  • M3: Use of mass timber structure on upper floor addition
  • M5: Low-embodied carbon through use of mass timber structure and envelope system
  • Sustainable building amenities including a green roof terrace, on-site fitness centers, bicycle parking and end of trip facilities
  • High-performance envelope with a low window to wall ratio (36%) on all buildings
  • M3, M4 and M5 triple-pane glazed curtainwall system
  • M3 & M4: Solar panels integrated into the building façade
  • Water-wise buildings including a 40–50% reduction in potable water usage and recycled rainwater for irrigation

Energy System

  • EV charging capability in all parking stalls
  • Reduced concrete volume through efficient structural design with Post-tensioned slabs. Green concrete used in M3 - M5.
  • Cooling by Creative Energy’s zero carbon chiller plant under M3.
  • Waste heat recovered from the chillers will be injected into the NEU heating loop, further decarbonizing their system
  • High-performance envelope with a low window to wall ratio (36%) on all buildings M3, M4 and M5 triple-pane glazed curtainwall system
  • M3 & M4: Solar panels integrated into the building façade
  • Water-wise buildings including a 40–50% reduction in potable water usage and recycled rainwater for irrigation