Anton Voronin
http://www.corbettcibinel.com
Awards:
Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 2006 Urban Design Award ą Sustainability
Society for College and University Planning Honor Award, Excellence in Planning 2004
Heritage Winnipeg Preservation Award for Excellence 2004
Heritage Winnipeg Preservation Award for Excellence 2003
Canadian Urban Institute Brownie Award Best Project Overall 2003
Oslo, Norway Green Building Challenge 2002
NRCan Largest C-2000 Project
Driving force:
“Design facilitation and conceptual engineering,
addressing all aspects of energy, environmental and
functional performance of the architectural and
building systems”… GF Shymko & Associates
History of the building
Intact streetscape from 1800’s
Princess street circa 1905
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History Con’t
Part of the national
Historic Cite “Exchange
District”; the district is
possibly “the largest
collection of turn of the
century and terracotta
Architecture in North
America”
(www.greenbuilding.ca)
http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/features/urbanmyths/
exchange.html
About:
Currently occupied by the Red River College, behind the 5 buildings
façade there are media and Information Technology departments.
Construction:
http://www.corbettcibin
el.com/portfolio/1/red_ri
ver_college.aspx?categ
ory=1&photo=3
http://www.corbettcibinel.com/portfolio/1/red_river_college.aspx?category=1&photo=5
About:
The building was built before the advent of LEED in Canada
Environmental perfrmance could be evaluated as LEED Gold or potential
to achieve LEED Platinum.
The construction achieved all project objectives including budget.
The cost was about $33-35 million
Green features:

Built on a brownfield site (Brownie award)

47% above the Model National Energy Code in energy use,
roughly 200,000$ in annual savings

Reused material from deconstruction of five historic
buildings, 1960’s bank and a parking lot.

Localized materials

Can work as a heat sink, can accumulate heat for a night use
Green features con’t

HVAC Room
occupancy
sensors

Lots of
penetrating light
http://www.corbettcibinel.com/portfolio/1/red_river
_college.aspx?category=1&photo=4
Green features:

Photovoltaic array on a
south wall; produces
enough energy to power 5
houses a year
http://www.corbettcibinel.com/portfolio/1/r
ed_river_college.aspx?category=1&photo
=0
Green features

Green roof

*Close to major municipal transit routes

Low VOC on the finishes

Low “Embodied energy”, energy it takes to make products.
References:
http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/features/urbanmyths/exchange.html
http://www.corbettcibinel.com/portfolio/1/red_river_college.aspx?category=1
http://rrc.mb.ca/index.php?pid=904
http://www.gfshymko.com/projects_redriver.html
http://greenbuilding.ca/iisbe/gbc2k2/teams/canada/red_river/rrc-edu.htm