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Royalmount

Realized for the client Carbonleo, the Royalmount project embodies an audacious and exemplary vision of sustainable development, aiming to realize the first phase of the most important private development using mixed carbon neutral in North America. As lead engineer, gbi played a key role in the design and integration of a unique energy transfer loop in Canada, optimizing energy sharing between buildings.

Markets
Building, Sustainable development
Submarkets
Commercial, Mixed projects, Project management, Sustainable development  
Year
2024

Private mixed-use development

It includes a hundred shops, sixty restaurants, a cinema and an outdoor piazza. In the long term, the integration of office tours, private residences and collective infrastructures such as a spa and an aquarium will densify this project.

From the start, the client's ambitions were clear: to achieve the LEED Gold, WELL Argent and Parksmart Argent certifications while meeting complex energy challenges, notably those related to the management of peak periods and the supply of energy to buildings.

  • 93 %

    GHG emissions reduction
  • 30.9 %

    reduction in energy consumption compared to the LEED reference
  • 83 %

    reduction of rainwater directed to sewers

Redefining the standards

The gbi team developed a multidisciplinary master plan that not only met the client’s needs, but also rethought traditional practices in shopping center design.

The approach was based on a major innovation: a dual energy transfer loop powered primarily by geothermal energy. Incorporating 150 geothermal wells reaching 600 feet deep, renewable energy, namely geothermal and hydroelectricity, provides 86% of the project’s energy requirements. Its unique dual design ensures increased flexibility for the future evolution of the project and optimized energy efficiency, through its energy recovery capacity to maximize the circularity of resources.

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