Friday Video - Vancouver’s Stunning Six Acre Living Roof

Vancouver’s 6 Acre Living Roof from Dave Budge on Vimeo.

Most of the time we focus on the “design of sustainable finance” over here.  This time, we are taking a moment to also look at building design and a particularly innovative application — to inspire us about the potential lying in every sustainable project and financial transaction.

Please enjoy this short video of Vancouver’s Living Roof, courtesy of Fast Company (courtesy of Treehugger).

The Vancouver Convention Center will be broadcasting the 2010 Olympics live, so city officials wanted the project to make a statement reflecting their sustainability values to the world. I hope that you’ll agree that what the design and construction team accomplished is stunning.

While life cycle costs are not discussed in the video, they do highlight the following innovative features:

“…the building also has black water treatment systems and desalination machinery to water the plants, a heat pump that uses seawater, and cooling via radiant floor. The bottom line is a water-use reduction of 60% to 70% over similarly sized convention centers.”