Northlands Tour – Biofuel for District Heating in Northern Communities

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Northlands Dënesųłiné First Nation is a "winter road / diesel dependent" community. All of the heating and electricity in the community depends upon the arrival of truckloads of diesel fuel on the annual winter road.

The biofuel district heating system replaces about 30% of the heating fuel with burnt wood - wood from the surrounding area that has been killed by natural forest fire and harvested with local labour.

• Building Name: Biomass / District Heating Plant & Harvesting Operation
• Building Location: Northlands Dënesųłiné First Nation
• Year Built: 2019
• Key Sustainable Feature: Biofuel district heating system using local wood
• Building Use: heating plant

Tour the site where harvested wood is piled and stored in the log yard adjacent to the biomass plant building. Go behind the scenes of the biomass building to get up close to the two boilers and pumps that move heated glycol to the school and other buildings in the district heating system.

TOUR GUIDE - Bruce Duggan - Boke Consulting

Bruce Duggan is an Associate Professor of Management at the Buller School of Business at Providence University College & Seminary.

He is the President of Boke Consulting and, in that role, is Project Lead for Aki Energy on ERAAES, an integrated soil remediation and alternative energy project for Northlands Dënesųłiné First Nation. He also helps lead the Waste & Derelict Scrap Metal Collection initiative for the Keewatin Tribal Council, Northlands Dënesųłiné First Nation, Barren Lands First Nation, and Sayisi Dene First Nation. He has also done studies on the feasibility of using biomass to heat community buildings in three other Manitoba First Nations. Bruce also a member of the Board of Directors of the Manitoba Environmental Industries Association and a Steering Committee member of 50by30.

Members get 50% off. Free for Student Members

Once again this year the sustainable building tour will be virtual. Happily, this gives us the opportunity to tour buildings outside Winnipeg, Manitoba and even Canada every Thursday in October.

Get your ticket for all 4 tours for a discount - 4 for the price of 2

Since members get 50% off you get 4 for the price of 1.

Other tours:

OCTOBER 14th - 12 NOON

Clearwater Manitoba - Reclaiming Materials and Community with Robert Guilford - Harvest Moon Society & Lancelot Coar - University of Manitoba

• Building Name: Clearwater Cabins and more
• Building Location: Clearwater, Manitoba
• Year Built: 2014
• Key Sustainable Feature: Recycled Materials, Community participation
• Building Use: Visitor accommodations, restaurant, multipurpose

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OCTOBER 21st - 12 NOON

Ottawa Community Housing - Deep Retrofit Process with Dan Dicaire – OCH and Mark Carver - NRCan

• Building Name: Presland Net-Zero PEER
• Building Location: Ottawa, Ontario
• Year Built: 1960
• Key Sustainable Feature: Net Zero Energy and Net-Zero GHG
• Building Use: Residential

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OCTOBER 28th - 12 NOON

MSR Design Studio Tour - Living Building Challenge & Building Materials with Traci Lesneski, Rhys MacPherson & Simona Fischer - MSR Design

• Building Name: 510 Marquette-MSR Design Studio
• Building Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Year Built: 2019
• Key Sustainable Feature: LBC Petal Certification: Materials, Beauty and Equity
• Building Use: Workplace

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Get your ticket for all 4 tours for a discount - 4 for the price of 2members still get 50% off.

Memberships get 50% off and free for students.

Thanks to event sponsor Duxton Windows for helping to make these tours happen.