Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre

This project will be the centrepiece of renewal for the Town of Port Hawkesbury and the entire surrounding community of30,000. The Town has chosen Leadership in Energy Efficient Design (LEED) as the systems approach to help guide thedesign of the new building. The Civic Centre will contain a National Hockey League size ice surface, a walking trackaround the perimeter of the ice surface, a convention centre for business seminars and other social function, a craftsand quilt centre for promoting local artisans and a fitness centre. The Centre will feature the innovative IceKube icemaking system, which uses earth energy as a heat exchanger. This integrated heating, ventilating, airconditioning/refrigeration system can recover heat taken from the ice surface. The system will provide heat to the CivicCentre and the system will have 210,600 equivalent kilowatt-hours (eKwh) available to heat the surrounding walkwaysand the high school adjacent to the Centre. The system, developed in Canada uses multiple chiller/heater water-to-waterheat pump modules to provide 80-88 tonnes of refrigeration. The other innovative technology used in this project isSolera’s translucent glazing wall system, developed in Sydney, Nova Scotia, to harvest daylight and solar energy andprovide daylight to the ice surface. These innovative technologies and an excellent building envelop will reduce energyconsumption to less than 50 per cent of the reference building that meets the Model National Energy Code for Buildings.In addition, there will be a significant reduction of CO2 intensity. The new building has a footprint of 78.8 kg of CO2 perm2 while the old facility had a footprint of 296.4 kg of CO2 per m2.