Eleanor McAteer,
Project Director of Mayor's Tower Renewal

Tuesday February 9, 2010
8:30am - 9:30am

Eleanor is the Director of a multi-faceted initiative
of the City of Toronto - the Mayor's Tower Renewal are to provide inproved physical, energy efficiency, environmental, social and other community benefits through the renewal of older high-rise residential concrete buildings and sites.

Tom Rand
Practice Lead, Cleantech and Physical
Sciences, MaRS-Discovery District

Wednesday, February 10, 2010
8:30am - 9:30am

Buildings are responsible for more than half of urban carbon emissions. Greening our buildings is clearly a cleantech priority - but what does "green" mean? Which technologies work, and which are window-dressing? What's possible by economic argument alone? How do we verify that the equipment was worth the investment?

This talk takes you through the technologies, decisions and problems of transforming a derelict building on our very own College Street into a modern, clean and green hotel. The six featured technologies are geothermal heating and cooling (particular emphasis on a dense downtown urban core), solar thermal, solar PV, drain-water heat recapture, smart thermostats, and efficient lighting.

Using these technologies, a 75 per cent reduction of carbon emissions from business as usual will be met. Planet Traveler will be "North America's Greenest Hotel."