SCARBOROUGH, ONT. — The new 94,000-square-foot Rouge Valley Community Recreation Centre in Scarborough is now open.
Located in Joyce Trimmer Park, the facility has a 25-metre swimming pool and a leisure pool for all ages, full-size gymnasium with enough space for a practice indoor cricket pitch, a child care centre with space for 62 children, a teaching kitchen, dance and fitness studios, multipurpose rooms and more, explains a release.
It is the first in Ontario to achieve the Canada Green Building Council’s Zero Carbon Building Certification.
The net-zero building is designed to operate entirely on electricity. Solar panels on the roof make both heat and electricity at the same time, the walls of the building have solar panels built into them and heat pumps use outside air to help heat the building in winter and cool it in summer, the release adds.
The project was designed by Perkins&Will Canada Corporation and was built by Aquicon Construction Company Ltd.
While site constraints were addressed during the design phase of the project, the timeline of the project had to be revised to address time lost due to labour disruptions and unforeseen soil conditions. It was originally scheduled to be completed in 2024.
