Location: Offsite - buses and meeting spot, Parker Building, Laurentian Main campus

This session will involve walking. Please report 15 minutes prior to your scheduled departure to the OAA Dispatch Hub located next to Registration in the R.D. Parker Building

 2.5 ConEd Learning Hours
2.5 AIA LU
9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

In 2006, the Co-operative Freshwater Ecology Unit—an unique partnership between Laurentian University, the Ministry of the Environment, and the Ministry of Natural Resources—began a process to design a project that would house their research activities and set a new standard in sustainable design. The result was a building that balanced utility, environmental performance, and design excellence.

Learning Objectives
1. Gain insight into the integrated design process and an extensive client/community consultation process.
2. Understand an alternative method to setting sustainable design and performance-based goals for a green building project.
3. Learn how a building can be an active participant in the process of healing a damaged landscape through an innovative material selection and site design.
4. Learn about the extensive use of local building materials, sourced and selected to support local industry as well as lower the project’s environmental footprint.

Jeff Laberge, M Arch, OAA, AIBC, AAA, MAA, NSAA, AAPEI, MRAIC, is a senior architect at J.L. Richards & Associates Limited, a 400+ person multidisciplinary firm offering architectural, engineering, and planning services to clients across Ontario. Currently, he is an executive director of the firm as well as the Chief of Buildings, managing a portfolio of projects that represents a third of the firm’s revenues. Over the course of his career, Jeff has contributed to the profession through volunteerism, acting as chair of the Northern Ontario Society of Architects (NOSA), volunteering with the steering committee and board of the McEwen School of Architecture, serving as a member of OAA Council, and currently representing Ontario on the Committee of the Examination for Architects in Canada (CExAC). Born and raised in Sudbury, he has been an active volunteer within the community as a former member of the board of governors of Science North as well as the board of directors of the Art Gallery of Sudbury.