Comment 68674

By Art Brut (anonymous) | Posted August 30, 2011 at 13:01:12

Toward the end of a pseudo-transparent "community engagement" event at the AGH in May 2010, David Adames proclaimed that this was going to be at least a LEED Silver facility.

That ambition seemed to slip quietly away over the intervening months and almost seems to have been just another of those "words feel good in my mouth so I may as well just say them in a microphone" moments that has typified official conduct around the Pan Am file. I was almost convinced that I had misheard the comment until I reviewed the meeting's notes:

"Emphasize green technology in all Games construction ... all new construction will be at least LEED Silver (stadium looking at geothermal heating and cooling, reducing carbon footprint)"

http://www.hamilton.ca/NR/rdonlyres/EAE14D90-DECB-41B8-89D3-98AC3EBEF0B2/0/PanAm2015CommunityConsultationNotesFINALMay202010.pdf

(There are some velodrome notes in there as well: "Velodrome is actually more important than the stadium: highest dollar‐to‐outcome infrastructure element of the Games," for example.)

All the same, I don't anticipate this stadium becoming a jewel of sustainable design, accredited or otherwise. I mean, they were still talking about 25,000‐30,000 permanent seats at that point.

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