Exercise Four-Mehdi Hosseini

Normally referred as the ‘TD Centre’.
1-It consists of six towers, covered in bronze-tinted glass and black painted steel. The complex was the inspiration of Allen Lambert (1911-2002), former President and Chairman of the Board of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, with Phyllis Lambert recommending Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as the project architect.
2- The Toronto-Dominion Centre is one of North America’s largest business communities. It is home to many generations of business leaders. Its influence reaches far beyond the TD Centre borders and it has presented Canada with a new standard of excellence for design and construction, defining the notion of Canada’s financial capital. It is owned by the Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited. The Toronto-Dominion Centre has 6 buildings, the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower, Royal Trust Tower, Canadian Pacific Tower, TD Waterhouse Tower, Ernst & Young Tower, and 95 Wellington West. The total rentable area of the office towers is 4,300,000 square feet with over 100 tenants and 150,000 square feet in the retail concourse with over 75 tenants. Also as part of the complex, the old Toronto Stock Exchange building was incorporated and converted into the Design Exchange building that can be accessed from Bay Street or inside the complex.
3- Over the years the Toronto-Dominion Centre has participated in the "Fatal Light Awareness Program" (FLAP). The TD Centre’s automated lighting system turns off the lights in some areas at a specific time after business hours in September and October to help prevent birds flying at night from hitting the windows.
4-"The two-storey banking hall in the plaza is among the best spaces Mies ever made. As you are visiting the branch you will find yellow flowers in a fishbowl vase on the service counters just where Mies had put them." (from Globe and Mail, November 4, 2002)
5- Royal Bank Plaza Escalator Replacement Oxford Properties replaced the escalators linking the Royal Bank Plaza to the TD Centre on October 10, 2008.

6- To improve its energy profile, in 2000 the Centre embarked on a comprehensive energy retrofit of all its facilities, including a comprehensive education and awareness program with financial assistance from the Energy Innovators Initiative (EII). Specific measures implemented by the Toronto-Dominion Centre included upgrading existing lighting to T-8 technology or higher or electronic ballasts. The amount of time the lighting was functioning was also reduced through the installation of occupancy sensors and automated lighting controls. Control systems with variable air volume were installed in the HVAC system. Finally, a program was initiated to improve employee and tenant awareness and to train key staff on the improved facility systems.
Highlights
Member of the EII since February 1999
EII project started in 2000
Retrofit of all six of its buildings, representing 416 700 m2
Total project investment of $26,774,729
Energy savings of $4,250,000 per year
Annual energy consumption savings of 162 636 GJ (45.18 million ekWh)