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May 2007 Green Toronto Award of Excellence
In May 2007 Green Phoenix was one of three finalists for the Green Toronto Award.
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"To be home to people whose options may be limited by poverty, disability, age, or other unjust cause, through the provision of clean, quiet, safe and affordable shelter." |
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Project News |
 Phase 2, tower retrofit begins: We are beginning the tower retrofit work with Martinway Contracting in the last week of February. Construction is expected to last the rest of the year. The retrofit includes connecting the geothermal system to the site, adding new windows and insulation to the building and all apartments, improving air quality using a heat recovery system, and removing electric baseboard heating from the building.- Enerworks commissions Canada's first vertical hot water solar wall array: A rack of 40 solar panels is now producing hot water for the site. The panels are designed and built by Enerworks, a solar thermal company located in Dorchester, Ontario. The average energy production for the system is projected at about 90,000 kWh per year, about a third of the site's hot water needs.
- OSIFA and EEO loan programs support PUCF's retrofit financing: The Province's lending body for infrastructure work, Infrastructure Ontario, has begun the OSIFA loan program to fund the retrofit and renewal of social housing. IO will lend the Foundation more than $1 million in an interest-bearing, 20 year loan. The City's Energy Efficiency Office has also launched a new Sustainable Energy Fund for retrofit projects. PUCF is receiving a $1 million, interest-free loan which, together with the OSIFA loan, make up the bulk of the retrofit financing. Improved cash flow from energy savings after the retrofit will fund the loan repayments.
Download Dec 10 2008 speeches about Green Phoenix by
Energy and Infrastructure minister George Smitherman and Muncipal Affairs and Housing minister Jim Watson
- Phase 3, new addition, postponed for one to two years. While the retrofit costs (Phase 2) were within budget, the new addition is too expensive to complete in today's very busy construction climate. Besides still being very busy, contractors cited a very constrained work area and the small scale of the project as major reasons for returning high bid numbers. This situation is expected to change over the coming year or so as a significant number of large developments slated to begin shortly and that would absorb large labour forces over the coming years have been put on hold. Deferring the addition beyond the federal spending deadline of March 31 2009 means that PUCF has to find ways to replace more than $1 million in federal funding for the project.
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Location
The Green Phoenix project is located at 1339 and 1355 King Street West, in Parkdale, a west Toronto neighbourhood. The nearest major intersection is Dufferin and King. The site is the home of Phoenix Place, a 136 unit apartment building operated by the Parkdale United Church Foundation, [PUCF].
Contact us at: Tel: 416.649.0202
Email:
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