Clementine Salus Apartment Building Passive Housing & LEED

3 February 2015

This is a four-story; 42-unit apartment building to provide quality affordable housing for Ottawa Salus (www.salusottawa.org) clients who are transitioning to independent living. The project is located at 1490 Clementine Blvd., Ottawa, ON. The building is designed to extremely energy efficient Passive House (www.passivehouse.ca) standard in order to achieve a minimal environmental footprint and a low operating expense with a high comfort level. This project is on track to be the FIRST commercial multi-unit residential building with Passive House certification in Canada. Numerous innovative building technologies in combination are being used to achieve the superinsulated and airtight envelope. The Owner and the team are looking to also achieve LEED Platinum Home certification or better on this project. Taplen has been engaged as the construction manager from the design development stages through the construction. Work was started in May 2015 and it is expected to be occupied in the summer of 2016.

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