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Dockside Green Sets New High for LEED Platinum

VICTORIA, BC-The project tops the titleholder by two points, earning 63 points for a fourth building and meeting phase one's LEED goals. The next phase is on target to do the same.

By Connie Gore | Updated on July 22, 2008

VICTORIA, BC-The award-winning Dockside Green, with a front-row seat on the Pacific Coast, has earned another LEED Platinum certification in its push to become the first fully certified mixed-use community in the world. The off-grid undertaking, now surpassing $80 million of construction, will take eight to 10 years to complete.

The four-building phase one, now 100% LEED Platinum-ranked, has 200 residential units and nearly 800 sm2 [8,611 sf] of street-level retail space along Wharf Street. Certification for the all-residential phase two, adding 220 for-sale units to the 15-acre waterfront block is “on target” to claim its LEED Platinum coups post-construction as the developer did with the first, Robert Drew, associate principal of Busby Perkins+Will in Vancouver, tells GlobeSt.com.

Co-developers Windmill West of Victoria and Vancity Enterprises, Canada’s largest credit union, began work on the city’s largest development in its history in 2004. At build-out, Dockside Green will house 26 buildings with 1.3 million sf of residential, office, retail, hospitality and light industrial space.

Synergy

Dockside Green’s first phase, Synergy, had 85% of its mix of one- and two-bedroom units is sold out three hours after marketing began. Sales for Balance, the project’s second phase, are under way, with the units, including townhouses, to come on line in early 2009. Units average 800 sf to 90 sf.

“The pace of this project is market-driven,” Drew stresses. “There’s a lot of building to do.” He says the greatest challenge was designing off-grid infrastructure for a greenhouse-gas neutral community, with net-energy opportunities, while the first phase of construction was under way. Dockside Green has its own sewage treatment plant and biomass gasification plant, which will come on line in seven months.

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