Presenters:

Alberto Cayuela, Associate, Program & Project Management, Stantec Consulting, Vancouver BC

Richard Iredale, Partner, Iredale Group Architecture, Vancouver, BC

Ron Kato, Associate & Director of Sustainability, Larry Mcfarland Architects Ltd, Vancouver, BC

The design teams working on three Living Building projects in British Columbia—The North Vancouver Outdoor School’s Environmental Learning Centre (NVOS), the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) and the Robert Bateman Centre for Art and Environmental Education—will demonstrate how the goal of meeting the LBC framed design responses to the site ecology, water and energy cycles, infrastructure implementation, impacts of construction and operations.  By comparing and contrasting these projects, the teams will offer and solicit ideas on the most challenging parts of the Challenge:  balancing the water cycle, developing renewable energy in northern climates, and dollars and sense, convincing skeptics.   The NVOS project received a 2008 Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction and seeks to harmoniously respond to the ecologically rich area that has offered environmental learning opportunities to Canadians for over 50 years.  CIRS is a regenerative building process that will house an ambitious program to contribute directly to accelerating sustainability on the ground in the province of British Columbia, Canada.  The Robert Bateman Centre for Art and Environmental Education employs innovative technologies developed to provide a museum-standard of indoor climate control with no dependence on fossil fuel based energy sources.

Presenter Bios

Alberto Cayuela

Alberto Cayuela  is an Associate of Stantec Program and Project Management and a Senior Project Manager with 15+ years' experience in the  planning,implementation and delivery of complex building projects and high performance buildings. Alberto is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of British Columbia (P.Eng - Civil), a certified Project Management Professional
(PMP), a LEED® Accredited Professional, a member of the Vancouver Branch of the Cascadia Chapter of the USGBC/CaGBC, and past President of the Society of Project Management Professionals of Greater Vancouver.

Richard Iredale

In practice since 1989 and a partner of Iredale Group Architecture since 1992, Richard Iredale's primary focus is the sustainable design of civic, cultural, and education facilities. As Both a Registered Architect and a Professional Engineer, Richard's training and background provide him with a multifaceted skill set: He brings an architect's vision and an engineer's analysis to designing structures that are in harmony with nature and self-sustaining in energy and water use, thus conserving natural resources. Richard became a LEED Accredited Professional in 2005 and is an active member of the Canada Green Building Council. Deeply committed to combating climate change, his work emphasizes the creation of community buildings that clean, rather than pollute, their environment.

Ron Kato

Ron was Project Architect of Canadian entries at the last three Green Building Challenge conferences, in Melbourne, Tokyo and Oslo, past chair of the AIBC Energy & Environment Committee, and works with the both the CaGBC Technical Advisory and the RAIC’s Architecture 2030 Committees. He was the Project Architect and Sustainable Design Manager for the first LEED Platinum building in Canada –and Project Architect for the NVOS, a Holcim Foundation 2008 Acknowledgement Prize recipient.