Halifax’s Tribute Tower receives LEED Silver
by sadia_badhon | November 27, 2019 7:00 am
[1]Photo © Sandy McClearn/SNC-Lavalin
The Royal Canadian Navy[2]’s new Tribute Tower project at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Stadacona in Halifax has received the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification.
Tribute Tower combines a 12-storey accommodation tower with a three-level podium incorporating dining and messing facilities for junior ranks personnel. The tower has been designed and constructed in accordance with a sustainability requirement that reduces its environmental footprint throughout the design lifetime.
Designer of record SNC-Lavalin[3] collaborated with the Protection Engineering Consultants[4] of Texas to design the structure in accordance with the United States Unified Facility Criteria[5] (UFC) 4-023-03, Design of Buildings to Resist Progressive Collapse. Tribute Tower is the first structure in Canada built to this standard.
Architecture and LEED consulting services were provided by A49 of Halifax[6].
- [Image]: https://www.constructioncanada.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Opener-11.jpg
- Royal Canadian Navy: https://forces.ca/en/about-us/navy
- SNC-Lavalin: https://www.snclavalin.com/en
- Protection Engineering Consultants: https://www.protection-consultants.com/
- United States Unified Facility Criteria: http://www.wbdg.org/FFC/dod/unified-facilities-criteria-ufc
- A49 of Halifax: http://architecture49.com/
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