Green Buildings & Green Interiors

MANITOBA HYDRO PLACE

ENVS-664-660 Sustainable Design
Professor Richard Berman
 BUILDING FACTS
• Client
Manitoba Hydro
Primary energy utility in the Province of Manitoba
The fourth largest energy utility in Canada
Owned by the provincial government
• Location
Winnipeg, Canada
INTEGRATED DESIGN CONSORTIUM

DESIGN ARCHITECTS
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, Toronto
chosen among eight competitors

EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT
ENERGY/CLIMATE ENGINEER
International leader
in the integrated design and engineering Transsolar of Germany
of the world's most complex buildings and environments the world’s foremost climate engineering firm
 FIVE GOALS ON MANITOBA HYDRO PLACE

• A supportive, healthy workplace environment

for employees of Manitoba Hydro.

• World class energy efficiency

inclusive of LEED(R) Gold rating and a 60% reduction in energy consumption.

• Signature architecture
integrated throughout the building at different scales from street level to roof.

• A high level of urban design integration

to revitalize downtown Winnipeg.

• Measurable benefits in terms of comfort, operations, and maintenance

in order to achieve a cost effective building design solution
 BUILDING FACTS
• Gross Area 695,742 ft2 (64,634 m2)

• Cost $278 million

includes construction, modernizing IT and security systems, pedestrian
bridge linkage, insurance, design work and capital interest.

• Completed September 2009

• Annual energy use (based on simulation)

29 kBtu/ft2 (330MJ/m2)
65% reduction from base case

• Energy Reduction Target

less than 100 kWh/m²/a compared to 400 kWh/m²/a
for a typical large scale North American office tower

• Program Office and retail

• Occupants 2,150 Manitoba Hydro employees plus tenant employees

 EXTREME CLIMATE
• Temperature -31ºF ~ 95ºF over the year

• During Winter Months

Abundant sunlight and strong Southerly winds
> Opportunity for passive wind and solar energies
for heating, cooling, ventilation
> Reduction of reliance on artificial lighting

Local climate (modeled for May 1 @ 1PM)

DESIGN CHARETTES

15 producing
alternative design schemes

3 modeling
three preferred options

Comfort Tower

1 developing
“Comfort Tower” Option
 LAND USE & COMMUNITY

• Specially selected site

• Removing 1,500 free parking spots

• Two significant public spaces An outdoor park & Three-story-high Public Galleria
 SITE ORGANIZATION

Photographer: Eduard Heuber

Photographer: Gerry Kopelow

 SUSTAINABLE SITE & WATER CONSERVATION

• Previously underutilzed site

occupied by several vacant buildings

• Brownfield development
hydrocarbon contaminants North Podium roof garden

• Runoff Reduction

• Waterless urinals & Low-flow toilets and sinks

previous site roof garden plan

NATURAL FRESH AIRFLOW

traditional diffuser-based vetilation systems

displacement ventilation systems

 WATER FEATURES

every sixth floor

BIODYNAMIC DOUBLE FACADE
GEOTHERMAL
SOLAR CHIMNEY
• Shaped slab edges
• Open workstations
• Demountable partitions

• Dimmeable direct/indirect T5 HO fixtures

• Operable windows, tasking lighitng, shading devices
• Very low or no-VOC paints

INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

 URBAN REVITALIZATION AND TRANSPORTATION

• 95% Winnipeg bus routes

passing by Manitoba Hydro Place

• Transit EcoPass program

68% employees commuting by public transit

• Economic impact
Influx of 2,000 employees
AWARDS

2010 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects Award

2010 Sustainable Architecture & Building Magazine Award, Project Winner

2009 CTBUH Best Tall Building Award - Americas

2008 IBS Award, Highly Commended

2006 MIPIM Architectural Review Awards - Commended for Innovation

2006 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence

Documentation and submission processes for the LEED program needed to

achieve the project's Platinum rating.
REFERENCE

• Green Source, The Magazine of Sustainable Design, March/April 2010, McGraw Hill Construction
• http://www.detail.de/artikel_manitoba-winnipeg-kuwabara-payne-mckenna-blumberg_24702_En.htm
• http://www.sabmagazine.com/blog/2010/08/18/manitoba-hydro-place/
• http://www.hydro.mb.ca/corporate/mhplace/
• http://contractorinsider.com/new/dl.cgi/1258396911_475.f_grn_pdf.pdf/KPMB%20%7C%20Manitoba%20
Hydro%20Place%20-%20A%20model%20for%20extreme%20climate%20responsive%20design.pdf
• http://www.aiatopten.org/hpb/overview.cfm?ProjectID=1712
• http://manitobahydroplace.com/ http://www.ctbuh.org/Events/Awards/BestTallBuildingWinners/09_Manito
baHydroPlace/tabid/1038/language/en-GB/Default.aspx
• http://www.kpmbarchitects.com/index.asp?navid=30&fid1=0&fid2=37