ENFORM Architects Inc

https://lnkd.in/e3f2tK8w At ENFORM, we love Beer. We also love Zero Carbon design. Why not have both? We are excited to announce a new project on our webpage: the Zero Carbon Brewery!🍻 ENFORM worked alongside a local Toronto brewery to design a high-end event venue, with space for on-site brewing, retail, and outdoor events. The project consists of a Deep Energy Retrofit to an existing barn, with the addition of a new timber framed brewing space, and was designed to be a high-efficiency, zero-carbon performance event venue, meaning a low-energy consumption building with enough on-site renewable energy to offset its associated carbon emissions. To heat the building, heat energy will be recovered from the brewing process which will be stored and utilized when required. The event venue facility is estimated to have an Energy Use Intensity (EUI) of 100 kWh/m² per year. This is compared to the average single-family residential energy intensity of +/-200 kWh/m² per year (+50% reduction). The onsite PV array will produce an estimated 53,000 kWh of clean electricity. Mechanical / Sustainable Systems Design: Firm Six Follow us for updates as this exciting project develops! Learn more about it on our website: https://lnkd.in/eW62Bdck #ZeroCarbon #sustainablearchitecture #architecture #greenbuilding #brewery #design #renovation #beer

Podium Developments and its partners are pleased to share that our latest development in Kingston, ON has achieved the CAGBC | Canada Green Building Council's Zero Carbon Design Certification. This is the City of Kingston's first residential Zero Carbon Design certified building and the third design-certified residential project in Ontario! 485 Albert St., known as GEOpark with the GEO community in Kingston, Ontario, is a six-storey residential development with 176 units and 150 square metres of prime at-grade corner retail. GEOpark contains unit types ranging from studios to 3-bedrooms, suitable to accommodate young professionals, students, and families in the larger units. Building amenities include a fitness studio, combined lounge and dining room with full kitchen facilities, private and group study areas and meeting rooms, parcel storage, and a large rooftop terrace with space to relax and cook with friends, or be active with pickleball and a dog run. The all-electric building is designed with an efficient envelope that mitigates thermal bridging and a geo-exchange field connected to a Variable Refrigerant Flow system providing space heating and cooling, while CO2 air source heat pumps generate hot water. Low-carbon concrete has been procured to help reduce the embodied carbon of the structure and EV chargers are provided in the single level of below-grade parking. Resident move-in is scheduled for September 2025. Developer & Builder: Podium Developments Architect: ENFORM Architects Inc in Association with Lemay Interior Designer: Lemay Mechanical, Electrical & Energy Modelling Engineers: Introba Civil Engineer: Forefront Engineering Inc. Structural Engineer: RJC Engineers Landscape Architect: HKLA Commissioning Authority: Introba Property Manager: PeakMade Real Estate #ZeroCarbon #CAGBC #GeoExchange #GEOcommunities #Sustainability #BuiltWellBeWell

485 Albert is officially Zero Carbon Building Design Certified! We are excited to announce that Podium Developments’ GEOpark (485 Albert St) has officially received its Zero Carbon Building Design (v3) certification through the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC). This high-performance building will enhance the local offering for residential developments with a high comfort, low carbon design solution. The building is powered by a geo-exchange VRF heat pump heating and cooling system. Suite based ventilation via demand operated ERVs will ensure maximum IAQ and minimum energy consumption. A thermally effective enclosure system manages building loads. The project has also achieved a 2-star Fitwel® certification for occupant wellness. Continue to keep up with the construction progress on our Instagram page! https://lnkd.in/gY_qrZZi Link to ENFORM’s website: https://lnkd.in/ggtqd_j4 Architect: Enform Architects in collaboration with Lemay 485 Albert St., known as GEOpark within Podium Developments GEO community in Kingston, Ontario, is a six-storey residential development with 176 units and 150 square metres of prime at-grade corner retail. GEOpark contains unit types ranging from studios to 3-bedrooms, suitable to accommodate young professionals, students, and families in the larger units. Building amenities include a fitness studio, combined lounge and dining room with full kitchen facilities, private and group study areas and meeting rooms, parcel storage, and a large rooftop terrace with space to relax and cook with friends, or be active with pickleball and a dog run. The all-electric building is designed with an efficient envelope that mitigates thermal bridging and a geo-exchange field connected to a Variable Refrigerant Flow system providing space heating and cooling, while CO2 air source heat pumps generate hot water. Low carbon concrete has been procured to help reduce the embodied carbon of the structure and EV chargers are provided in the single level of below grade parking. Podium Developments | Lemay | Introba | Forefront Engineering | RJC Engineers | HKLA | PeakMade Real Estate #ZeroCarbon #CAGBC #GeoExchange #GEOcommunities #Sustainability #BuiltWellBeWell

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Last week I got to do my favourite thing — speak to a room full of really smart people. Here I am in front of an audience of passionate and curious folks at the second annual Deep Energy Retrofit Seminar. Hosted by ENFORM Architects Inc, it’s an event that looks to the future, and brings together people who care about making the buildings we build greener and more efficient. This event was right up my alley, because, like I always say, the greenest building you can build is the one you already have. A new building takes so many more resources than a retrofit to an existing building. And by recladding with high performance facades, leaky, inefficient buildings can be revolutionized. And that’s exactly what I talked about. I got to share about a project I’m so thrilled to be a part of, the retrofit of a twelve storey building owned by Toronto Community Housing. I talked about CERACLAD™ panels and subsystems from U-kon Systems, two products that, when combined, can help create high-performance #facadesystems. They’ve been a big part of what’s made this TCH project so successful. Thanks to the organizers for an event dedicated to an important topic. Thanks most of all to the people behind me — the folks in the audience asked some great questions, and I was glad to get to meet a few of them too. Here’s to building better! (And getting more out of the buildings we already have.) #facades #facadedesign

Last week I attended the 2024 Deep Energy Retrofit seminar in Toronto, Ontario with Maria Milan. It was such a spectacular event with amazing speakers who gave informative sessions on how to implement DER Technologies. I was enlightened about the presentations that were made on how deep energy retrofits can help decarbonize our climate crisis with the low carbon design tool by RDH Building Science and Toronto Metropolitan University. Passive house design methodologies were also presented by Toronto Community Housing and ENFORM Architects Inc, as well as a Framing system design by Facade Systems Inc and Morrison Hershfield. As the economy transitions to net zero carbon high performance buildings, this seminar well elaborated crucial steps towards achieving sustainable economic growth and combating climate change which was very insightful. #DER24#Sustainablebuildings#Netzerocarbon#Toronto#Climatechange#Lowcarbondesign#Retrofitstrategies#Decarbonize#Buildingscience

Well on its way to becoming one of the must-attend events in the AEC industry calendar, ENFORM Architects Inc generously hosted their second annual Deep Energy Retrofit (DER) Seminar at Henderson Brewery. Such a great event for the growing community of carbon focused climate resilient design and construction geeks in town. This year showcased the fabric-first approach to retrofits and featured speakers from Enform, UofT Daniels school, KPMB, RDH Building Science, MH, TCHC and Facade Systems Inc. #deepenergyretrofit #decarbonization #climateresilientdesign #climateaction #fabricfirstapproach

Thank you ENFORM Architects Inc for hosting the 2024 Deep Energy Retrofit Seminar this week! Great to be surrounded by other likeminded architects who see the value in reusing our existing buildings.

We had a wonderful time hosting everyone at our second annual Deep Energy Retrofit Seminar #DER24 on Wednesday. Thank you to everyone who came out to engage with us on the importance of designing for a better world. A special thank you to our wonderful Change Makers for 3 insightful sessions: Alex Lukachko (University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design), Rehanna Devraj-Kizuk (RDH Building Science), Kelsey Saunders (KPMB Architects), Adam Pelissero (Toronto Community Housing), Kevin Stelzer, Steve Murray (Morrison Hershfield), and Blair Davies, P.Eng. (Facade Systems Inc)! This evening was made possible thanks to our generous sponsors SOPREMA Canada, Facade Systems Inc, U-kon Systems, and CERACLAD™. Congratulations to Jonathan Rebelo on winning our crowd favourite ENFORM BINGO Draft. We look forward to talking about Don Norman's Design for a Better World book together when you've finished it. For those of you who missed the event, please stay tuned for more seminar content to be published on our website soon.

DER 24 is just one week away. We have a fantastic line up of speakers and are so excited to talk about high-performance buildings. Check out the link: https://lnkd.in/gPDTu57g to register, and for more information on the speakers and outlines of the presentations. Look forward to seeing you soon!