The new Athletes' Village will be a mixed-use community that will provide goods and services within walking distance and housing in proximity to public transit and local jobs. It will contribute 1,100 residential units including 250 units of affordable housing.

Recollective is responsible for providing green building consulting to the design team to help determine how the project's sustainability goals can be met, and for the overall LEED project management for SEFC. We work with the City of Vancouver and the developer to both interpret the City's Green Building Strategy, and to determine how compliance will be documented for the permitting process. The system that Recollective is collaboratively developing is intended to be the blueprint for the City for other developers of the SEFC lands.

Vancouver’s Athletes' Village on the Southeast False Creek (SEFC) site is designed to be a model of a sustainable neighbourhood. The site is about seven hectares in size and will consist of over 20 buildings, with approximately 1.5 million square feet of residential development. All SEFC buildings are designed to LEED Gold standard, with the community centre and net-zero senior’s housing project pursuing LEED Platinum. When completed, this will be the largest development project to be certified in Canada.

Notably, Recollective provided consulting services on the net-zero energy strategy for the Athlete’s Village Netzero multi-residential building, designed by GBL Architects. This project is aiming for net-zero energy consumption using a combined reduction and offset strategy, requiring an in-depth analysis of energy consumption loads and the integration of renewable energy technologies, coupled with applications to incentive and funding programs.
 
A water use reduction strategy will minimize potable water use across the project by using harvested rainwater for uses such as irrigation and toilet flushing. In order to provide heat island reduction and stormwater management, 50% of the roof areas will be vegetated green roofs or roof gardens. The village will also provide opportunities for urban agriculture in open spaces, plaza areas and roof decks.

The SEFC Green Building Strategy was created with the intention to incorporate current “best practices” for all building design and construction. Passive design is identified as a key strategy to reduce energy consumption. The Neighbourhood Energy Utility (NEU) that supplies heating to the development will use renewable and high efficiency supplied energy to minimize the use of fossil fuels and optimize energy efficiency.

Artist rendering of Vancouver's Athletes' Village