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Building form
The schematic design, or massing plan, for the project adds 21 new units to Phoenix Place. Ten will be located in a 3 and 4 storey addition along the north and west faces of the building, These will include 4 bachelors, 2 two bedroom and 4 one bedroom units.
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The new units will be accessible by stairs from street level, and from within the existing building. The ground floor of the addition under the new units will contain a new laundry, amenity spaces, and church entrance. The old laundry room on the 11th floor will be converted into an additional bachelor apartment.
Another 10 bachelor units will be created within Shalom House, an existing 3 storey brick building immediately east of the apartment building. The overall unit mix for the 21 new units is: 15 bachelor, 4 one-bedroom, and 2 two-bedroom.
The setback of the addition is stepped back from the corner of King and Dunn to match the setbacks of residential properties along King Street to the east. The roof line also descends from 4 storeys to 3 towards the east to meet the level of the adjoining houses.
For a look at the schematic plan (or massing plan), click here.
The table below outlines Green Phoenix's key sustainability features. These features form an integrated design whose parts work together. For example, increasing building insulation & window quality reduces the size of the heating and cooling system. Adding green roofs, heat recovery, and a solar wall have a similar effect. Energy savings noted are in 2006 dollars.
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Hydronic heating and cooling to replace electric baseboard heating. Existing units will be fitted with flat plate radiators for space heating in the winter and for temperature moderation in the summer. New units will have radiant panels cast into their ceilings. The core of this system is an electric heat pump, which can heat and cool units using several energy sources..
In winter, the heat pump draws heat from an array of geo-thermal wells, from a solar wall, and from exhaust air heat recovery. In summer, the pump cools units by transferring heat to the domestic hot water system and back into the ground via the geo-thermal wells.
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- Increased comfort -- especially in summer.
- Reduced electricity use
- Eliminate window air conditioners.
- Energy savings: $44,000/year.
- Cost: $522,100
- Payback: 10 yrs.
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Ground source (geo-thermal) energy. Much of the heating and cooling for the building comes from an array of 80 small wells inside the new addition's foundation pilings. The well field is relatively small for a building this size, but will work because of improvements to the building envelope and because of other energy sources including the solar wall and exhaust air heat recovery. |
- More than 120 tonnes lower CO2 emissions.
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Solar wall. The south-facing wall of the apartment tower is an ideal solar collector. An array of SolarFinTM collectors, positioned inside a glass wall, will provide from 25% to 40% of the building's domestic hot water.
The solar wall will displace heat that the geo-thermal plant would otherwise provide: while this is an effective design, it makes the payback somehwat modest compared to many solar wall installations. |
- Reduced use of natural gas: more than 20 tonnes lower CO2 emissions.
- Energy savings: $4,800 /year.
- Cost: $152,564.
- Payback: 27 yrs.
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Exterior Insulation and Finish System [EIFS]. This stucco and insulation system will triple the building's wall R values, and reduce the building's heating and cooling losses, saving energy costs and improving comfort
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- Increased comfort.
- Energy savings: $7,180 /year.
- Cost: $367,500>
- Payback: 37 yrs.
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High performance windows. Triple-glazed windows with special coatings that keep out extreme summer heat will increase comfort and reduce energy costs.
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- Increased comfort, especially in summer heat waves>
- Energy savings: $8,047 /year.
- Cost: $147,456.
- Payback: 11 yrs.
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New fresh air supply and exhaust to all units using enthalpy energy recovery technology.This system will work with the hydronic heating and cooling to improve indoor air quality and temperatures, recovering 85% of heating and cooling energy from exhaust air.
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- More than 90 tonnes lower CO2 emissions.
- Energy savings: $29,950 /year.
- Cost: $196,000.
- Payback: 5 yrs.
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Energy-efficient lighting retrofits. These changes will replace the building's remaining incandescant fixtures with compact fluorescents, and upgrade existing fluorescent hallway lighting.
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- Estimated greenhouse gas reduction: 12 tonnes.
- Energy savings: $3,400 /year.
- Cost: $31,600.
- Payback: 9.3 yrs.
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Three green roof gardens with storm water retention and re-use. Two of these roofs will be accesible as new amenity space for residents.
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Use of non-toxic, non-emitting and where possible non-synthetic finishes and materials throughout.
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