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understanding there’s a new way of completing Beyond the sheer scope of the new Community-
projects - we have to be diligent.” Centre project and the limits in terms of the total

physical construction space the Project Team had to
COMMUNITY CENTRE work with, we had another challenge on our hands:
FOOTPRINT PRESENTS sustainability. All new Town of Oakville construction

CHALLENGES buildings are mandated LEED-certified (Leadership

in Energy and Environmental Design).

“The site was difficult, in that we were stuck with the

footprint we had when the old hospital was there,” To meet the required LEED certification for
Valerio says. Site demolition in and of itself was a the community centre, the team oversaw the

major undertaking but with continued diligence and construction of a geothermal system and borefield

dealing with minor unknowns, it was completed in with all the piping neatly buried underneath the
time for the construction of the Community Centre. park area (up to 650 feet deep) with surrounding

“Through structural investigations and numerous temperatures of 13 degrees Celsius. The system

repairs, we managed to keep the existing parking serves as the heating cooling source for the
structure, which now not only serves the Centre but community centre and replaces the need for an

blends in with the building and surroundings.” evaporative cooling tower, along with a reduction in

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