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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
AXA Place “Earth Award” Wins Polaris High Praise
Pulse Energy helps client Polaris Realty (Canada) Ltd. reveal energy savings and win top green building award
VANCOUVER – AXA Place, a Polaris Realty (Canada) Ltd. office tower at West Hastings and Burrard, has received the BC Building Owners and Managers Association’s prestigious 2010 “Earth Award” and high praise from the City of Vancouver and BC Hydro.
Reflective gold on the outside, the 30-year veteran of the Vancouver skyline has been retro-fitted using leading edge technology and is now green to the core. A new state of the art building management system and real-time energy monitoring system helped AXA Place achieve energy savings of 20 per cent in 2009 over 2008 with a further 15 per cent so far this year.
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson congratulated Polaris Realty and AXA Place. “It’s great to see a Vancouver building win this year’s Earth Award. At City Hall, we’re working hard to promote and expand green building technology throughout our city. It’s encouraging to see a local business take a leadership role on energy efficiency, recycling, and water conservation – we need more businesses to take that kind of initiative.”
BC Hydro Senior Manager Murray Bond stated: “It’s wonderful to see key industry players take a lead role, improving the built environment while reducing the building’s environmental footprint. This is the type of building we all want to work in.”
Paul LaBranche, Executive Vice President of the Building Owners and Managers Association, described AXA Place as “a role model to the industry for demonstrating effective environmental initiatives and building practices.”
“One of the impressive green features is the rain water harvesting process currently being installed,” said Polaris Energy and Sustainability Manager Toli Sidiropoulos. “It will provide 100 per cent of the building’s irrigation needs.”
AXA’s recycling facilities have been expanded to include lobby recycling stations. And, the tower has a tenant “Green Team.”
“Establishing an AXA Place Green Team has generated a high level of awareness amongst tenants and is promoting energy saving behaviour at the workplace and at their homes,” Sidiropoulos says.
Sidiropoulos and BC Hydro consultant Jennifer Davis (TurnLeaf Consulting) are currently planning an AXA “Eco-fair” August 18 to further encourage tenant involvement in energy conservation.
Join Toli Sidiropoulos for an informative 45 minute webinar on energy management where Toli will outline how AXA Place reduced its energy consumption by almost 20% in one year.