Plenary achieves two LEED Silver Certifications
Published 14 March 2015TORONTO, ON – Two of Plenary Group’s major health care projects in Ontario have achieved LEED® Silver Certification from the Canada Green Building Council, exceeding the project requirements for energy efficiency.
Plenary Concessions CEO, Mike Marasco, said Bridgepoint Hospital in Toronto and the NHS Health Care Complex in St. Catharines had surpassed their original requirements of LEED® certification.
“To exceed client and project expectations and achieve LEED® Silver certification is recognition of the Plenary team’s tireless efforts to deliver world-class health care facilities,” Mr. Marasco said. “It’s a clear demonstration of the additional value that can be driven through the AFP model of infrastructure delivery.”
Mr. Marasco congratulated Plenary Health’s project delivery teams comprising PCL Contractors Canada as the design-builder of both facilities, and architects Bregman + Hamann and Silver Thomas Hanley (NHS), as well as HDR Architecture Associates Inc and Diamond Schmitt (Bridgepoint).
Both hospitals are now fully operational, and realizing real savings for Ontario taxpayers. In addition to the positive impacts on the outdoor environment, their design also ensures major improvements in the indoor environment for patients, visitors, and staff, by incorporating green design strategies such as maximum daylight, energy-saving window coatings, fresh air circulation, low-emission paints, and many other elements of great hospital design.