Mountain Equipment Co-op

Mountain Equipment Co-op is a retail building striving to be a model for the green building world.  It will achieve LEED^TM Platinum standards but will go beyond LEED and follow the Living Building Challenge to be the most energy efficient and green building possible.  The building will be a single story 22,000 s.f. retail centre with with a partial 16,000  s.f. second floor of offices and a one level subgrade parking, extensive green space and on site water collection and filtration with the use of cisterns.  It will be surrounded by permeable pavers and landscaping that will encompass on site cisterns and a filtration gallery. The structure will be slab on grade, concrete supports and a wood roof and deck.  There will be a green roof with solar arrays for power generation and ice chillers for cooling.  The City of Burlington has requested the building be easily dismountable for future zoning changes so the exterior will be made of a Structural Insulated Panel System.