George Brown College (GBC) in Toronto, Ontario held a design competition in 2018 to select a design and consulting team to create a new ten storey, 20,358 m2 (219,000 square foot) building for their Waterfront Campus called The Arbour. The building program consist of lecture halls, computer labs, classrooms, offices, meeting rooms, fitness area and a ground floor daycare facility. The building will have an occupancy of 3,400 occupants (staff and students). The project objectives included constructing a Mass Timber structure to demonstrate reducing embodied carbon; a healthy, and productive learning environment, innovative building concepts and technologies; Zero Carbon emissions; future proofing and building resilience; and certification to sustainability standards including LEED? (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) v4 minimum rating of Gold under the CaGBC (Canadian Green Building Council) as per Waterfront Toronto requirements, Toronto Green Building Standard Version 3, Tier 4 (highest level) and Zero Carbon Emissions with no natural gas connection to the building, aiming to be one of the first Ontario post-secondary education facility to achieve these targets. The design competition was awarded in 2019 to the architecture team of Moriyama Teshima Architects with Acton Ostry Architects.
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