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Gold for Genomics Centre


Montreal, September 26, 2013 – Concordia University’s Research Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics (GE) has been awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification status by the Canada Green Building Council (GaGBC).

Concordia’s third LEED certification and second gold status, acknowledges the university’s longstanding commitment to sustainable practices. The two other LEED certified buildings are Concordia’s PERFORM Centre on the Loyola Campus and the John Molson School of Business Building on the Sir George Williams Campus, which have Gold and Silver status respectively.

“This is an important achievement for Concordia, reflecting our ongoing commitment to best practices in sustainability, especially when it comes to new building construction on campus,” says Alan Shepard, president of Concordia University. “As a university gaining momentum nationally and internationally for its research, it is important that we provide our faculty and students with facilities that will support innovative research.”

Built in the summer of 2011 at Concordia’s Loyola Campus, the Genomics Building consumes 57 percent less energy than the Canadian National Energy Model Standard. Sixty-five percent of the wood-based materials used in the building’s construction adhere to the principles of the Forest Stewardship Council, a global not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting responsible forest management.

The building is cleaned with only green-certified products, boasts high air quality and efficient plumbing fixtures to conserve water and has high volume facilities for recycling and composting.

This Gold-status multidisciplinary research centre is the ideal location to house a state-of-the-art genomics facility that features all of the computational resources necessary to sequence, process and store the genetic information of various organisms.

About LEED 
LEED is a third-party certification program and an internationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings. By certifying hundreds of projects over the past decade, LEED Canada has transformed the way built environments are designed, constructed and operated.


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Fiona Downey
Fiona Downey
Public Affairs
514-848-2424, ext. 2518
Fiona.Downey@concordia.ca
@fiodow



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