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THE FACILITY

The Centre is designed to reflect bird flight by its overall shape and an inverted roofline. Rather than a peaked roof, the upturned roof and overhang is a stylized tribute to a bird’s power stroke during migration and flight. At the right angle, the BCBC literally looks ready for flight! The Centre is located in an area of Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park where services are limited or nonexistent. These facts along with a desire to design a high performance building lead the partners to adopt a relatively new standard in sustainable building design.

The LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) system awards points for “green building” construction. Points are arranged under six major categories: Sustainable Sites, Water Efficiency, Energy & Atmosphere, Materials & Resources, Indoor Environmental Quality, and Innovation and Design Process. The BCBC is setting new sustainability standards in a government building in a number of ways:

• Commercial grade composting toilets and waterless urinals
• Rainwater capture and treatment system
• Geothermal heat pump system
• Using sustainable building products ex. Strawboard panels