A new industrial building in Ontario will be one of only eight in all of Canada to be certified by the Canadian Green Building Council as ‘Zero Carbon Building Design v3’—and CarbonCast High Performance Insulated Wall Panels from AltusGroup member PreCon Precast Limited are contributing.
The Eagle Street Industrial Park in Cambridge will meet the ‘v3’ certification, which demands carbon reduction be 30% below the Ontario average for embedded carbon in building materials. The consortium of owners, however, has gone well beyond the minimum by melting old steel and repurposing it and using recycled concrete in the foundations, for example.
The CarbonCast High Performance Insulated Wall Panels will deliver an R-value of R-30 by using four inches of Kooltherm K20 insulation between two concrete wythes (2-7/8” and 3-1/8” thick) that are connected by C-GRID carbon fiber grid trusses. The negligible thermal transfer of the CFRP grid enables the panels to offer continuous insulation to save energy on heating and cooling.
Read the entire article – which includes details on more carbon reduction initiatives — in Cambridge Today.
