HH Angus’ headquarters building, owned by Rosseau Real Estate, has won a ‘Greatest Energy Reduction’ award in CivicAction’s 2015 “Race to Reduce”. The awards, presented at a gala event on November 7, 2015, celebrate CivicAction’s smart energy office challenge winners.  We’re very proud that HH Angus’ site reduced energy consumption by 17.78%! We congratulate our friends at Rosseau Real Estate, and look forward to continuing our joint focus on energy efficiency.

From CivicAction’s press release Nov 9, 2015:

Participants in the smart energy office challenge took sustainability to new heights, celebrating a drop of close to 193 million ekWh or 12.1 per cent in collective energy use over four years, charging past the program’s four-year target of 10 per cent. That’s equivalent to taking more than 4,200 cars off the road and putting $13.7 million back into office landlords’ and tenants’ pockets.

“We set an ambitious target four years ago and today, we exceeded it,” said Sevaun Palvetzian, CEO, CivicAction. “The Race to Reduce is a great example of what’s possible when people from opposite sides of the table come together and work towards a shared goal.”

With winning buildings located in Burlington, Oakville, Mississauga, Vaughan, Markham and Toronto, the final Race to Reduce awards ceremony saw representation from leading office building owners, tenants, and workers from across the region and showed how little energy is needed to run a building while meeting tenants’ and their employees’ needs. CivicAction’s Race to Reduce is one of the largest regional energy challenges in the world, with 196 buildings participating representing more than 69 million square feet or 42 per cent of the commercial office space in the region.

Sixty-four buildings of various sizes and ages earned a Greatest Energy Reduction Award by achieving a 10 per cent or greater reduction across the four years of the Race (2011-2014). Twenty-one of these buildings reduced their energy use by more than 20 percent.

Join HH Angus at Toronto’s Data Center Dynamics 2015 conference at the Allstream Centre in Toronto on Nov. 10, 2015

Everyone wants the best data center project possible.  HH Angus hosts a high-level panel discussion that explores the impact of company structure on considerations such as project cost certainty versus risk, design approach and input, and project control.

Our panelists represent a range of company structures: from extensive internal resources in project management and design, to those who typically outsource these roles or who use a combination of these approaches.

Panelists include:

Frank Gimondo – Director, Data Centre Ops, CenturyLink
Bill Henneberry – CTO, Pillar 247
Mark Thiele – EVP Ecosystem Development & Evangelism , SUPERNAP  International
Craig Sievenpiper – Principal, HH Angus, Moderator

Visit us at the Expo Floor, next to the Solution Stage.

Congratulations to HH Angus’ long-term client, Cadillac Fairview, on a very notable achievement: All 6 towers of Canada’s iconic Toronto Dominion Centre have been certified LEED EB: O&M Platinum.

This is a significant achievement in sustainability. The TD Centre’s capital investment, operating capabilities, and green initiative helps to lessen the property’s environmental footprint, and reaffirms the TD Centre’s position as one of the most sustainable office communities in North America.

In order to achieve LEED EB: O&M platinum certification, strict, measurable and actual performance metrics had to be met, in areas such as energy and water reduction, waste diversion, transportation, electricity, sustainable construction and infrastructure, and occupant engagement.

HH Angus & Associates has been working with Cadillac Fairview for several years on infrastructure upgrades to support this certification. By way of background, we were the original base building engineers for the TD Centre (Canada’s first skyscraper, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe), and have been working at the complex ever since on renovations, upgrades and fitouts.

Our work enabling the certification includes Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) improvements to support LEED® EB standards, M&E infrastructure upgrades in conjunction with building envelope renewal, infrastructure upgrades to increase tenant space and reworking of the plaza area to improve drainage.

With over 350 exhibitors from 38 countries, the recent Saudi Health conference in Riyadh was a key event for the healthcare sector in Saudi Arabia.

HH Angus was one of 19 private and public Canadian firms exhibiting at the event, as part of the Canadian delegation organized by the Canadian government international trade offices in Ontario and Saudi Arabia.

According to HH Angus’ Mohammad Abusaa (below right with Saudi guest), “Healthcare is an important sector for the Gulf Corporation Council. With the population expected to number 50 million in 2020, and with those 65+ years of age growing from 1.2 million in 2015 to 14.2 million in 2050, it is apparent that demand on healthcare services and facilities is on the rise.”

HH Angus’ Michael Loughry, P.Eng., LEED® AP, will be speaking at the 26th Annual PM Expo on December 4, 2014. The session is titled  “Lessons Learned from Building Commissioning of New and Existing Facilities: When Has It Worked and When Has It Failed?”  Mike will be speaking on ‘Commissioning Existing Buildings – Compartment Unit Air Systems’.

Mike has been  involved  in the building construction industry for over thirty years.  His experience in providing commissioning services includes a wide range of facilities from healthcare to data centres. As past president of the ASHRAE Toronto Chapter and former long-standing member of the Board of Directors for the Building Commissioning Association – Eastern Canada Chapter, Mike will offer insight into commissioning practices.

The 26th Annual PM Expo will be held concurrently with Construct Canada, HomeBuilder & Renovator Expo and Concrete Canada on December 3-5, 2014 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building. New this year, the event will expand to the North Building to include Construct International and IIDEXCanada. All shows combined will create The Buildings Show, North America’s largest exposition, networking and educational event. Influential buyers and decision-makers of the design, construction and real estate industries will attend the Show to experience more than 1600 exhibits and 350 seminars and demonstrations, delivering the very latest in products, technologies, best practices and applications.

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