32 BUILD MANITOBA winnipegconstruction.ca trend WASTE DIVERSION CANADA’S DIVERSITY GARDENS THE BEST IN BUILDINGS The Manitoba Building Expo’s expert panel shares their insight on cutting edge construction, design and commercial interiors GOING GREEN The latest construction and design features that are environmentally-friendly “We’re collecting all the rainwater in cisterns outside of the building and we are going to be using that water to irrigate the biomes. ”– Dom Costantini At Canada’s Diversity Gardens (CDG) project, as of September 2018, this initiative had saved enough kilowatt hours of electricity to power 62 homes and divert the equivalent of 3,291 people’s household garbage each month. DID YOU KNOW? Bird has saved 737 trees in about six weeks on their construction sites. sub-trend WATER REUSE “There is an escape tunnel from the centre core diagrid that comes out to a water structure, and on the east side of the tunnel, there are earth tubes. What we’re doing is we’re taking the air from outside and we’re tempering it and bringing it into the building. It’s kind of like a geothermal system for air. ”– Dom Costantini sub-trend AIR TEMPERING project: Canada’s Diversity Gardens is the final major phase of the redevelopment campaign to revitalize and rejuvenate Assiniboine Park.