Please note that this event will be delivered in English, with French AI interpretation provided.
Veuillez noter que cet événement sera offert en anglais, avec interprétation en français.

DATE: July 30, 2026
DURATION: 1 hour and 30 minutes
TIME: 1:00pm – 2:30pm Eastern Standard Time
LANGUAGE: English with French AI translation
LOCATION: Online

Registration closes on July 29 at 12:00pm Eastern Standard Time.

Event Highlights

The Cowichan District Hospital Replacement Project – now named Quw'utsun Valley Hospital / Quw'utsun Hulitun-ew't-hw is setting a new benchmark for zero carbon healthcare in Canada. Certified under the CAGBC Zero Carbon Building – Design Standard and targeting LEED v4 BD+C Healthcare Gold, the project demonstrates how British Columbia’s first fully electric hospital can reduce operational and embodied carbon, while supporting climate resilience, ecological restoration, and community health.
The Quw'utsun Valley Hospital / Quw'utsun Hulitun-ew't-hw, is being delivered by the Nuts'a'maat Alliance, which includes: The Province of BC via Island Health (owner), EllisDon, Parkin Architects, BC Infrastructure Benefits and Infrastructure BC. Presented by ZGF Architects and HH Angus, this session will examine the strategies, tools, and decision-making processes that enabled the project to achieve ZCB Design certification while meeting the complex functional, resilience, and operational requirements of a modern hospital. Topics will include the Alliance delivery model, embodied carbon Key Performance Indicators, optimized building systems, photovoltaics, and low-GWP mechanical strategies, and the relationship between ZCB and LEED certification pathways.
The session will also highlight the project’s broader regenerative landscape approach, with a focus on water management strategies that contributed to Salmon-Safe certification. In addition, the webinar will explore how meaningful Indigenous engagement informed the design process.
Attendees will gain transferable lessons for applying zero carbon and regenerative design strategies to healthcare and other complex building typologies.

Learning Objectives

• Identify key strategies used to achieve CAGBC Zero Carbon Building – Design certification for a large, complex healthcare facility, including approaches to operational carbon, embodied carbon, and medical gas emissions.
• Evaluate how an all-electric healthcare facility can support climate resilience and decarbonization, including the role of high-performance building systems, envelope design, photovoltaics, low-GWP refrigerants, and future climate scenario planning.
• Describe no-cost and low-cost embodied carbon strategies that can be integrated early in design and carried through procurement, specifications, and construction
• Analyze how collaborative delivery models support ambitious sustainability outcomes, using the Alliance model as a case study for integrated decision-making, shared accountability, and innovation.
• Compare the complementary benefits of pursuing ZCB Design certification and LEED v4 BD+C Healthcare Gold, including how dual certification frameworks can strengthen whole-project sustainability outcomes.
• Explain how regenerative landscape design, Indigenous engagement, and Salmon-Safe strategies contribute to health, wellness, and ecological resilience.

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Speakers

Ayme Sharma Associate Principal Architect & Project Performance Lead; ZGF Architects	Ryan Kennedy Engineering Director; HH Angus	Dave Abuza   Technical Leader Associate, HH Angus

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