The $25-million project at No. 17 fire hall is fully electric, with rooftop solar panels.
It is believed to be Canada’s first ever zero-carbon fire hall and was celebrated Wednesday for that history-making fact and other features built into Vancouver’s state-of-the-art facility for firefighters.But it took until Wednesday to officially mark its existence in a grand way, with Fire Chief Karen Fry, Mayor Ken Sim, city councillors and serving and retired firefighters gathered inside one of the large bays of the hall, where the department’s band performed during the event.
First, he said, it is built to internationally-recognized Passive House standards, which means it's super well insulated, airtight and recovers the heat of the exhaust air to pre-warm the incoming air. “It helps keep the building cool and relies less on the energy used for air conditioning and by the heat pump to provide cooling.”“I was blown away when I heard this — it reduces the operational carbon emissions by 99.7 per cent compared to the building it replaced,” said Sim, before he joked: “So either the other building really sucked, or they did a really good job here.
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