Games. Bayley explains that Millennium has agreed to allow the City of Vancouver and VANOC ( the Vancouver Organizing Committee) to use the site as the Vancouver Olympic Village from October 31, 2009, through March 31, 2010, when the buildings will be returned to the developer. " The carrying costs of the project while used as the Olympic Village, estimated to be over $ 50 million, are being borne by the developer," he reports. In addition to the developer, Millennium Development Corporation, the project's principal participants include Merrick Architecture, gBL Architects, Erickson/ Milkovich Architects, IBI Group, ITC Construction and Metro- Can Construction. Bayley is chronicling the progress of this very large and historic project in a book called The Challenge Series, available online at www. thechallengeseries. ca. It documents the vision, planning, design and construction of Millennium Water and the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Village and is a resource offered to educate others seeking to create opportunities in sustainability. by about 40 percent, reports Bayley. " We also installed a full series of heat recovery and heat generation systems. The thermal hot water we generate on the roof systems is sold to the district energy system." The goal is to achieve LEED Gold certification for all the buildings, and the community center will aim for LEED Platinum certification. About 50 percent of all the roofs in the community are green roofs. Despite time constraints, Millennium, the developer, moved the work forward according to schedule due to the high level of cooperation among the 40 consulting firms and 300 to 400 people working on the design phase of the project, not to mention the 10,000 workers. Over the last two years, Millennium issued over 9,000 site access passes for personnel, and Bayley reports that at any one time there were no fewer than 1,500 workers onsite. Before Millennium Water will be used as a residential community, it will house about 2,800 international athletes participating in the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Millennium Water JANUARY 10 www. bus- ex. com 93

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