Projects

Residential

Reid’s Heritage LEED Platinum Home

Reid’s Heritage Homes built Canada’s first LEED Platinum home, which was also North America’s highest rated home ever. CleanEnergy used an innovative geoexchange system integrated with solar thermal to give top LEED points and an energy reduction of over 80% compared to a conventional system. Read more.

Integral House

Integral House is a large residence built as a concert hall with living quarters. Situated on a steep ravine, the five-story home has many windows allowing the sun to brighten and heat the home. To keep the house cool for all of the guests frequenting the concert hall, geoexchange proved to be an innovative solution.

Mill Bay Home

A family from Mill Bay on Vancouver Island was building their dream home overlooking the ocean. The most important goal of this 9,000 square foot home was to leave as small a carbon footprint as possible. To accomplish this goal the obvious choice was geoexchange, which reduces the energy consumed in heating and cooling a home by up to 80%. Read more.

Commercial

WestJet Calgary Campus

When WestJet built its new Calgary campus, energy efficiency and meeting the LEED® Gold standard were top considerations, Read more about how WestJet benefited from geoexchange – both on its bottom line and its carbon footprint – and find out how geoexchange can benefit your organization.

Haldimand Motors

When the owner of Haldimand Motors, the largest used car dealership in North America, was building his new 64 bay shop building, low operating costs and employee comfort were a top priority. Considering the employees used to be sent home in the summer due to extreme heat in the shop, geoexchange was an ideal solution, providing both heating in the winter and cooling in the summer. Read more.

Hotels

Planet Traveler

When Tom Rand and Anthony Aarts bought an abandoned building on College Street in downtown Toronto they had a dream – to build North America’s greenest hotel. Without geoexchange, this would have been next to impossible.  In Tom’s words, “geoexchange is the lowest hanging fruit on the renewable energy tree” and an obvious choice for heating and cooling their super efficient hotel. The geoexchange system alone accounted for 70% of their 80% reduction from business-as-usual carbon emissions. Read more.

Multi-Family Residential

InVue

Kelowna’s latest architectural highlight is a cruise ship inspired 14-storey condominium highrise that will certainly change the neighbourhood’s skyline. With high end finishings throughout the building, geoexchange is a perfect choice to add to this premium building's cachet and keep the residents comfortable all year round.

Schools

L’Ecole Secondaire de Barrie:

Barrie’s new French language public secondary school is a school of firsts: it is the first French language public school, the first school in the area to use geoexchange, and the first school in Canada to apply for the LEED Gold Standard. Geoexchange is the cornerstone and the most important plank in their energy efficiency platform. Read more.

Centre for Sustainable Technologies Georgian College

Georgian College’s new Centre for Sustainable Technologies serves as a learning lab for sustainable technologies, so including geoexchange creates an important educational opportunity for students. The geoexchange system demonstrates where the future of the sustainable energy industry is headed on all building projects. Read more.

Lakefield College School

When the prestigious Lakefield College School decided to build a new student residence, they chose geoexchange to keep operating costs as low as possible while also being as “green” as possible.

Recreational Facilities

Banff Upper Hot Springs

Geoexchange systems can not only heat and cool homes efficiently, they are also a great system for hot water heating, including your domestic load, pool and hot tub. Did you know that geoexchange is also used to heat the water at the world renowned Banff Upper Hot Springs? Read more.

Private Arena

When the owner of a Junior A hockey team decided to build his own arena at home, he knew that building the arena was only part of the equation. The other part was that he would have to operate it over the long term, so keeping operating costs low was a serious consideration. The best solution for this arena? Geoexchange.

Grocery Stores

Copper Ridge Food Store

The Copper Ridge grocery store is a 12,000 sq. ft. store in Whitehorse. The owners obviously needed heating, cooling, refrigeration and hot water, but they wanted to achieve this while also reducing operating costs and providing a more comfortable environment for their customers and staff. The efficiency of CleanEnergy’s was 31.5 % higher than the Model National Energy Code for Buildings, which itself is 25% better than the standard building code. Plus, the payback was almost immediate. Read more.