OVERVIEW
The purpose of this workshop was to communicate and gather input from Cambridge Bay community members, industry and Government employees on suitable building designs for the North. The event also introduced SAIT team members to the community and provided a walk-through virtual tour of designs implemented in the Green Building Technology research lab. This workshop was designed to refine ideas generated during earlier workshops through better understanding past and ongoing local energy efficiency projects.
PARTICIPANTS
MLA: Jeannie Hakongak Ehaloak,
Municipality: Marla Limousin, Valter Botelho-Resendes, Angela Gerbrandt
Aurora Energy Solutions: Tom Rutherdale
PI/KHS: Brendan Griebel, Pamela Gross, Sophie Pantin
CHARS: Chris Chisholm, Jason Etuangat, Bryan
SAIT: Melanie Ross, Hayley Puppato, Tom Jackman
DISCUSSION TOPICS
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Local drinking water, grey water, and sewage systems
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Importance of considering high efficiency appliances as a significant way of addressing many current housing issues dealing with water consumption and sewage output.
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Creating drainage/septic systems to facilitate cultural practices surrounding food and materials preparation (animal hide skinning, waste product removal, etc.).
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Passive solar and waste heat recovery
SUSTAINABILITY
CLIMATE ACTION STRATEGY
PI/KHS is developing a climate action strategy to assess the short and long-terms changes that can reduce the environmental footprint of our organization and community. Climate change adaptation and mitigation actions go hand in hand.
Even with significant measures to reduce green house gas emissions, we recognize that climate change is inevitable and will have significant economic, social and environmental impacts. As the Arctic is warming at twice the global average, this means big changes for Cambridge Bay. We need to adapt quickly to reduce the negative impacts of this change and to take advantage of new opportunities a changing landscape presents.
By quantifying our organization's footprint, we seek to reduce our emissions, lessen our environmental impacts and adapt to the rapidly changing world we live in.
CARBON INVENTORY AND ENERGY
PROFILE
To do our part to curb climate change, PI/KHS is conducting a full review of our organization's energy usage, including historical consumption analysis, comparison to other similar facilities around the country (benchmarking), and technology energy assessment.
This analysis will help identify opportunities to reduce energy usage at both the existing May Hakongak Cultural Centre and in any future buildings we seek to create.
Our community currently relies on diesel for all of its energy, which is extremely carbon intensive. We are working to create a green house gas inventory to identify the steps we can take to reduce our carbon footprint through energy efficiency measures, waste reduction and changing the way we operate.
