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Nexterra – Dockside Green Achieves Platinum

November 12, 2008



Photo and Illustration Credit: Nexterra Energy Corp.

The first phase of Dockside Green, featured in the spring edition of the Colony Newsletter under “That’s A Metal Building???”, has achieved LEED “PLATINUM” certification from the Canada Green Building Council. In fact, the project amassed sixty-three points out of a possible seventy, reportedly the highest scoring LEED “PLATINUM” project for new construction in the world. The project is one of a handful in Canada to achieve this outstanding designation and the first master-planned development to target this level of certification. The project’s first phase achieved the maximum available score in several LEED categories including energy, water efficiency, atmosphere, indoor environmental quality and innovation.

A key sustainable feature of the “PLATINUM” designation is the community-wide integrated energy system that includes heating and hot water produced from renewable biomass energy, created and supplied by Nexterra Energy Corporation of Vancouver, and housed inside the architecturally featured building provided by Colony.

“We’re proud to be a part of Dockside Green achieving this recognition,” spoke an exuberant Raymond McAllister, Nexterra’s Director of Communications. “Dockside is a tremendous showcase for our gasification technology, which is one of the key features that has helped them accomplish the LEED ‘PLATINUM’ designation.”

Nexterra’s biomass energy system uses waste wood as fuel through a gasification process. Gasification is a thermo-chemical process that uses heat to convert any carbon-containing fuel into clean-burning gas commonly referred to as Syngas. Gasification differs from combustion because it uses just twenty to thirty percent of the air or oxygen needed for complete combustion. Syngas is composed primarily of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and methane, and is a clean-burning fuel that can be used as a substitute for natural gas, fuel oil, or propane to produce process steam, heat, hot water, and/or electricity.

As Joe Van Belleghem, visionary co-developer of Dockside Green, said last spring when the biomass project was announced, “Nexterra’s gasification system is perfect for an urban environment. It’s a proven, simple, ultra-clean technology that sets a new standard for converting biomass into useful heat energy.”

Nexterra has nearly completed the gasification system at Dockside, and construction of the Colony building that will house the technology is currently underway.

The multi-million dollar Dockside Green project, located in the Inner Harbour, is the largest re-development of City land in Victoria’s history. It will eventually include a total of twenty-six buildings incorporating low- and high-rise residential space, light industrial, office, commercial, and retail development. All of us here at Colony are proud to have been a part of this project, and along with Nexterra, congratulate Dockside Green on this amazing achievement.

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Nexterra – Dockside Green Achieves Platinum
Posted by Colony Management on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008


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