The
Toronto City Summit Alliance writes, in a recent press release, of
Telus' new $250-million, 30-storey LEED Gold
headquarters at 25 York Street, that "While the building is built to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold certification, the building's environmental performance depends in part on tenants' and their employees' use of the space."
There's been a lot of talk to building standards, especially LEED, in the last several years as the development industry and Toronto at large become more aware of the potential for technological advances to claw back our impact on the environment.
But as this press release pointed out last week, the greenest-built building can still be wasteful if the people who use it are.
Which is why the TCSA-sponsored series of landlord-tenant talks in some of the largest buildings in the city are so potentially useful. This one, hosted last Thursday by Telus and the tower's builder,
Menkes, gathered the building's other tenants to discuss the built-in green features, and share strategies for making the most of them.
Strategies discussed included car pooling to work to use the allocated car pooling spots and biking to work to use the in house showers and bike storage facilities
This was the fourth such meeting in the awkwardly named
Greening Greater Toronto's '
Greening Our Workplaces' Tenant-Landlord Collaboration Series.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Rebecca Geller
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