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Toronto’s aging bank towers go green
TD Centre hopes to win LEED certification on all six of its buildings by 2013, says David Hoffman, general manager of the buildings for landlord Cadillac-Fairview.
That’s meant about $110 million in major work just on the Mies van der Rohe-designed 77 King St. W. building where 45-year-old windows were replaced at a rate of about three or four floors per night.
“The work we’ve undertaken at 77 King is the most complicated and sophisticated work that the TD Centre has ever seen,†says Hoffman. “We’re doing it so that TD Centre can retain its position as the pre-eminent, first-class office tower in Toronto.â€
The new windows have not only helped better regulate office temperatures, they’ve cut energy costs and increased TD’s ability to compete for tenants who are increasingly looking for landlords that do more than just talk about sustainability in vague mission statements
Hoffman is looking forward to spring when the TD Tower will boast an entirely new kind of green, meant to capture heat, cut cooling costs, act as a sound insulator and reduce storm water runoff.
That’s when an almost 22,000-square-foot “living roof†of Creek Sedge Grass will be planted for the first time atop the two-storey TD Bank Pavillon
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