Shafraaz Kaba of Manasc Isaac talks about the Servus project on City TV...

Edmonton – His Worship David Miller, Mayor of Toronto, presented his Mayor’s Tower Renewal plan at the Hotel MacDonald this afternoon to a group of developers, architects, contractors and other city builders.

Last July, on a Sunday afternoon, there was a small electrical fire in Air Handling Unit #2 in the Water Centre building, a recently completed sustainable office building in the City of Calgary. Fire-fighters battled smoke and put the fire out quickly. Damage was limited to the air handling unit. Smoke and water damage were minimal. In most office buildings, one of three air handling units being out of commission in the middle of the summer would have meant a complete shut-down of the building. It was seven months before the air handler was working again. Surprisingly, the building re-opened first thing on the Monday morning after the fire, and remained open ever since. There was no lost time.How was that possible?