Downtown Toronto’s T.D. Building Wins Major Environmental Award

We’ve all seen the green T.D. logo, and now the T.D. building in downtown Toronto has earned its own recognition, winning Canada ‘s top environmental award, Go Green Plus.

The building has been able to reduce its energy use by 27%, saving 12 million kilowatt hours last year.   That’s the equivalent of taking 2,300 cars off the road.  

Much of the conservation came when they replaced their massive energy-sucking air conditioner with a new, more environmentally-friendly model.  

“The technology here is original,” said Rob Furlan, Operations Director, Cadillac Fairview.   “It’s from 1967. This building is 1.3 million square feet and it has about 53 occupied floors, and that’s why we (had) such a large refrigeration system here.”

This air conditioner was shut down in 2004 to make way for a much more efficient deep water cooling system.

“It replaces the air conditioning system … and it takes about 1-15th of the space,” Furlon adds.

Employees are happy that it’s not just their logo that’s green.

“Every place should try to be as green as possible.  I mean we’re doing this for our children, right, so they have a world to inherit,” said mail clerk Nick Van Der Graff.

“Even at our end, we take initiatives to actually save paper. You know, try to print less if required, so I’m definitely proud of that,” adds Aureil Cordeiro of Capital Management.

Some 250 other companies have also been certified Go Green and Go Green Plus.   Many are in the GTA. Here’s the list:

100 Consilium Place, Scarborough

151 Front Street West, Toronto

175 Bloor Street East, Toronto

200 King Street W, Toronto

55 University Avenue, Toronto

6880 Financial Drive, Mississauga

90 Sheppard Avenue East, Toronto

 Atrium on Bay,
20 Dundas Street West, Toronto

BCE Place
181 & 161 Bay Street, Toronto

Bell Trinity Square
483 Bay Street, Toronto

College Square I, & II
2630 Skymark Avenue, Mississauga

Commerce Court
25 King Street West, Toronto

Cosmopolitan Corporate Centre
105 Gordon Baker Road, Toronto

Dominion Public Building,
One Front Street, Toronto

Ennisclare Corporate Centre
1235 North Service Road West, Oakville

 Ennisclare Corporate Centre
1275 North Service Road West, Oakville

 Exchange Tower,
130 King Street West, Toronto

2800 Speakman Drive, Mississauga

 HSBC Building,
70 York Street, Toronto

Lombard Place
105 Adelaide Street West, Toronto

 Madison Centre,
4950 Yonge Street, Toronto

Metro Toronto Convention Centre,
255 Front Street West, Toronto

North York City Centre,
5150 / 5160 Yonge Street, Toronto

Queens Quay Terminal
207 Queens Quay West, Toronto

Scotia Plaza
40 King Street West, Toronto

Scotia Plaza – Bank of Nova Scotia,
 44 King Street West, Toronto

Simcoe Place
200 Front Street West, Toronto

Steeles Technology Campus,
3381 – 3389 Steeles Avenue East, Toronto

Sun Life Financial Tower,
150 King Street West, Toronto

TD Centre # 1
66 Wellington Street West, Toronto

TD Centre # 2
77 King Street West, Toronto

TD Centre # 3
100 Wellington Street West, Toronto

TD Centre # 4
79 Wellington Street West, Toronto

TD Centre # 5
222 Bay Street, Toronto

TD Centre # 6
95 Wellington Street West, Toronto

University Centre, Manulife Financial
393 University Avenue, Toronto

York Mills Centre,
 4025 Yonge Street, Toronto

To see which other buildings across the province made the list, click here.