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1/5/2007
With over 20,000 residential suites, primarily in the Ottawa and Toronto markets, Minto Apartments Ltd. is one of the largest residential property owners in Canada.
In 1999, Minto launched an aggressive program to improve the energy efficiency of their entire high-rise building stock. As implementation partners, Efficiency Engineering Inc. is undertaking the required site investigation, mechanical design, and electrical design to help Minto achieve their savings targets on a very tight implementation schedule. The entire program, which includes heating plant replacements, direct digital control of building services, and variable-speed makeup air and pumping in over 40 buildings, is scheduled for completion by the end of 2001.
As part of their program, Minto is involved in innovative sub metering programs with local utilities, and is undertaking performance trials on a Capstone micro turbine cogeneration unit (installation also designed by EEI). Minto has received the year 2000 award for organizational excellence in energy management from the Association of Energy Engineers in Atlanta.
Natural Resources Canada's Commercial Building Incentive Program (CBIP) offers a financial incentive for the incorporation of energy efficiency features in new building designs in these sectors:
- Commercial
- Institutional
- Large multi-residential
The objective of this new incentive is to encourage energy-efficient design practices and to bring about lasting changes in the Canadian building design and construction industry. A financial incentive will be awarded to building owners whose designs meet CBIP requirements. CBIP compliance is checked by independent consultants, whose fees will in most cases be paid by local utility companies. The duration of the program will be from April 1, 1998, to March 31, 2004.
If you are putting up a new building and would like to investigate energy efficient design options, CBIP offers a way to do that at no cost. And if you proceed to build an energy-conscious building, you can actually be paid for it!!
Contact Efficiency Engineering Inc. for further information.
With over 20,000 residential suites, primarily in the Ottawa and Toronto markets, Minto Apartments Ltd. is one of the largest residential property owners in Canada.
In 1999, Minto launched an aggressive program to improve the energy efficiency of their entire high-rise building stock. As implementation partners, Efficiency Engineering Inc. is undertaking the required site investigation, mechanical design, and electrical design to help Minto achieve their savings targets on a very tight implementation schedule. The entire program, which includes heating plant replacements, direct digital control of building services, and variable-speed makeup air and pumping in over 40 buildings, is scheduled for completion by the end of 2001.
As part of their program, Minto is involved in innovative sub metering programs with local utilities, and is undertaking performance trials on a Capstone micro turbine cogeneration unit (installation also designed by EEI). Minto has received the year 2000 award for organizational excellence in energy management from the Association of Energy Engineers in Atlanta.
Natural Resources Canada's Commercial Building Incentive Program (CBIP) offers a financial incentive for the incorporation of energy efficiency features in new building designs in these sectors:
- Commercial
- Institutional
- Large multi-residential
The objective of this new incentive is to encourage energy-efficient design practices and to bring about lasting changes in the Canadian building design and construction industry. A financial incentive will be awarded to building owners whose designs meet CBIP requirements. CBIP compliance is checked by independent consultants, whose fees will in most cases be paid by local utility companies. The duration of the program will be from April 1, 1998, to March 31, 2004.
If you are putting up a new building and would like to investigate energy efficient design options, CBIP offers a way to do that at no cost. And if you proceed to build an energy-conscious building, you can actually be paid for it!!
Contact Efficiency Engineering Inc. for further information.
With over 20,000 residential suites, primarily in the Ottawa and Toronto markets, Minto Apartments Ltd. is one of the largest residential property owners in Canada.
In 1999, Minto launched an aggressive program to improve the energy efficiency of their entire high-rise building stock. As implementation partners, Efficiency Engineering Inc. is undertaking the required site investigation, mechanical design, and electrical design to help Minto achieve their savings targets on a very tight implementation schedule. The entire program, which includes heating plant replacements, direct digital control of building services, and variable-speed makeup air and pumping in over 40 buildings, is scheduled for completion by the end of 2001.
As part of their program, Minto is involved in innovative sub metering programs with local utilities, and is undertaking performance trials on a Capstone micro turbine cogeneration unit (installation also designed by EEI). Minto has received the year 2000 award for organizational excellence in energy management from the Association of Energy Engineers in Atlanta.
Natural Resources Canada's Commercial Building Incentive Program (CBIP) offers a financial incentive for the incorporation of energy efficiency features in new building designs in these sectors:
- Commercial
- Institutional
- Large multi-residential
The objective of this new incentive is to encourage energy-efficient design practices and to bring about lasting changes in the Canadian building design and construction industry. A financial incentive will be awarded to building owners whose designs meet CBIP requirements. CBIP compliance is checked by independent consultants, whose fees will in most cases be paid by local utility companies. The duration of the program will be from April 1, 1998, to March 31, 2004.
If you are putting up a new building and would like to investigate energy efficient design options, CBIP offers a way to do that at no cost. And if you proceed to build an energy-conscious building, you can actually be paid for it!!
Contact Efficiency Engineering Inc. for further information.
Reproduced from the Toronto Globe and Mail, May 30, 1998
Breathing the heavily polluted air in Canadian cities is deadly, according to a study conducted by three federal scientists. Polluted air is having a noticeable effect on rate at which people die: Mortality climbs measurably when smog is at its worst. Residents of Quebec City were most affected. The death rate there surged 11 per cent, from an average of 7.7 deaths a day to 8.6, during periods of high air pollution. Researchers were unsure why the increase was so marked.
The study also found higher mortality levels associated with dirty air in the other 10 cities investigated, which covered most of Canada's major urban areas and a total population of 10.8 million.
London at 10.6 per cent and Hamilton at 10.3 had the next largest increases in smog-induced mortality levels, while the smallest increases, 3.6 per cent, were found in Windsor and Edmonton.
Air pollution levels varied among the cities studied. No region had uniformly higher or lower levels of contaminants.
The study, described as one of the most extensive undertaken in the world, reviewed more than 800,000 deaths that occurred over an 11-year period and found that levels of common air pollutants, such as ozone and sulphur dioxide, are playing a role in when people die.
The researchers viewed it as further confirmation of the public health risk posed by smog. "Exposure to ambient air pollutants generated from the combustion of fossil fuels poses a public health risk to Canadians," they concluded.
"Risk of premature mortality was shown to be attributable to a mixture of gaseous air pollutants with positive risks detected in all 11 Canadian cities examined"
Until now, most air pollution research has focused on the death risk attributed only to the breathing of extremely small pollution particles, but this study looked at the effects of the broad soup of pollutants contained in city air.
"What people have found in cities all over North America, Europe and South America is that when air pollution is high more people die, and when air pollution is low fewer people die," said Richard Burnett, a scientist with the environmental health directorate of the federal Health Department and one of the authors of the study.
The study is to be published next month in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, and has been cited by the Health Department in a submission it made this month to the federal/provincial group reviewing ways Canadian gasoline could be reformulated to reduce the amount of air pollution it causes.
The researchers found that mortality rates in Canada could be reduced by cutting the amount of sulphur contained in gasoline to California levels. Although there have been some improvements in air quality in Canada because of pollution control measures adopted in the 1980s, there are concerns that increased gasoline use and restructuring of the electric power industry, a heavy fossil fuel user, will erode these gains...
For the other cities covered by the study, the increased risk of death during high pollution episodes was: Montreal 8.4 per cent, Ottawa 4.8, Toronto 6.5, Winnipeg 6.4, Calgary 9.7 and Vancouver 8.3.
Reproduced from the Toronto Globe and Mail, May 30, 1998
Breathing the heavily polluted air in Canadian cities is deadly, according to a study conducted by three federal scientists. Polluted air is having a noticeable effect on rate at which people die: Mortality climbs measurably when smog is at its worst. Residents of Quebec City were most affected. The death rate there surged 11 per cent, from an average of 7.7 deaths a day to 8.6, during periods of high air pollution. Researchers were unsure why the increase was so marked.
The study also found higher mortality levels associated with dirty air in the other 10 cities investigated, which covered most of Canada's major urban areas and a total population of 10.8 million.
London at 10.6 per cent and Hamilton at 10.3 had the next largest increases in smog-induced mortality levels, while the smallest increases, 3.6 per cent, were found in Windsor and Edmonton.
Air pollution levels varied among the cities studied. No region had uniformly higher or lower levels of contaminants.
The study, described as one of the most extensive undertaken in the world, reviewed more than 800,000 deaths that occurred over an 11-year period and found that levels of common air pollutants, such as ozone and sulphur dioxide, are playing a role in when people die.
The researchers viewed it as further confirmation of the public health risk posed by smog. "Exposure to ambient air pollutants generated from the combustion of fossil fuels poses a public health risk to Canadians," they concluded.
"Risk of premature mortality was shown to be attributable to a mixture of gaseous air pollutants with positive risks detected in all 11 Canadian cities examined"
Until now, most air pollution research has focused on the death risk attributed only to the breathing of extremely small pollution particles, but this study looked at the effects of the broad soup of pollutants contained in city air.
"What people have found in cities all over North America, Europe and South America is that when air pollution is high more people die, and when air pollution is low fewer people die," said Richard Burnett, a scientist with the environmental health directorate of the federal Health Department and one of the authors of the study.
The study is to be published next month in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, and has been cited by the Health Department in a submission it made this month to the federal/provincial group reviewing ways Canadian gasoline could be reformulated to reduce the amount of air pollution it causes.
The researchers found that mortality rates in Canada could be reduced by cutting the amount of sulphur contained in gasoline to California levels. Although there have been some improvements in air quality in Canada because of pollution control measures adopted in the 1980s, there are concerns that increased gasoline use and restructuring of the electric power industry, a heavy fossil fuel user, will erode these gains...
For the other cities covered by the study, the increased risk of death during high pollution episodes was: Montreal 8.4 per cent, Ottawa 4.8, Toronto 6.5, Winnipeg 6.4, Calgary 9.7 and Vancouver 8.3.
Reproduced from the Toronto Globe and Mail, May 30, 1998
Breathing the heavily polluted air in Canadian cities is deadly, according to a study conducted by three federal scientists. Polluted air is having a noticeable effect on rate at which people die: Mortality climbs measurably when smog is at its worst. Residents of Quebec City were most affected. The death rate there surged 11 per cent, from an average of 7.7 deaths a day to 8.6, during periods of high air pollution. Researchers were unsure why the increase was so marked.
The study also found higher mortality levels associated with dirty air in the other 10 cities investigated, which covered most of Canada's major urban areas and a total population of 10.8 million.
London at 10.6 per cent and Hamilton at 10.3 had the next largest increases in smog-induced mortality levels, while the smallest increases, 3.6 per cent, were found in Windsor and Edmonton.
Air pollution levels varied among the cities studied. No region had uniformly higher or lower levels of contaminants.
The study, described as one of the most extensive undertaken in the world, reviewed more than 800,000 deaths that occurred over an 11-year period and found that levels of common air pollutants, such as ozone and sulphur dioxide, are playing a role in when people die.
The researchers viewed it as further confirmation of the public health risk posed by smog. "Exposure to ambient air pollutants generated from the combustion of fossil fuels poses a public health risk to Canadians," they concluded.
"Risk of premature mortality was shown to be attributable to a mixture of gaseous air pollutants with positive risks detected in all 11 Canadian cities examined"
Until now, most air pollution research has focused on the death risk attributed only to the breathing of extremely small pollution particles, but this study looked at the effects of the broad soup of pollutants contained in city air.
"What people have found in cities all over North America, Europe and South America is that when air pollution is high more people die, and when air pollution is low fewer people die," said Richard Burnett, a scientist with the environmental health directorate of the federal Health Department and one of the authors of the study.
The study is to be published next month in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, and has been cited by the Health Department in a submission it made this month to the federal/provincial group reviewing ways Canadian gasoline could be reformulated to reduce the amount of air pollution it causes.
The researchers found that mortality rates in Canada could be reduced by cutting the amount of sulphur contained in gasoline to California levels. Although there have been some improvements in air quality in Canada because of pollution control measures adopted in the 1980s, there are concerns that increased gasoline use and restructuring of the electric power industry, a heavy fossil fuel user, will erode these gains...
For the other cities covered by the study, the increased risk of death during high pollution episodes was: Montreal 8.4 per cent, Ottawa 4.8, Toronto 6.5, Winnipeg 6.4, Calgary 9.7 and Vancouver 8.3.
In April 1998, Natural Resources Canada launched a program with cash incentives for energy retrofit projects in existing buildings.
The Innovators Plus Program is aimed at improving energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Last year, Canada made an international commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 6% below 1990 levels by the year 2012.
Money is available to companies that sign up as "Energy Innovators". The Innovators Plus Program includes financial incentives for companies implementing comprehensive energy efficiency pilot retrofits. Contributions of up to 25% of a pilot project cost are available, to a maximum of $350,000.
To qualify your company need to sign up as an Energy Innovator, submit an energy management plan, and put together a pilot project proposal. NRCan has a limited budget and will allocate funds on a first come, first served basis.
Contact Efficiency Engineering Inc. for further information. |
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