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Zero Carbon Transition Plan – is finding ways to reduce natural gas use in the City ’ s existing buildings . A recent successful project done by the energy management team was the installation of heat recovery system . “ This system recovers heat from swimming pool drain water at one of the City ’ s community centres ,” says Liang .
While effective measures can be taken to improve the energy performance of existing buildings , future gains can be achieved by ensuring new structures are built to high performance standards . “ The City of Brampton is designing , building and renovating many new community centers , fire stations , etc . due to population growth . The energy management group works closely with our building design and construction division , collaborating with them , to integrate energy design into the buildings .” To achieve the energy targets required , Liang and his team have introduced parametric energy modeling that uses cloud computing
AUGUST 2019