West Broadway Commons
The West Broadway Commons is an innovative joint venture development between UWCRC 2.0 and All Saints Anglican Church. The development has 110 mixed-income apartments with 2,400 sq. ft. of street-level commercial space.
West Broadway Commons offers a range of unit types, including studio, one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and three-bedroom apartments. Suites consist of luxury, premium, market and affordable units. All units are accessible (visitable) with several units designed to be universally accessible (washrooms with roll-in shower, accessible kitchen, etc.).
Designed to create community, the building features shared spaces that bring residents together. The building features an impressive 9th-floor community room and large outdoor terrace with skyline views of downtown Winnipeg and the provincial legislative grounds. Shared building amenities include a fitness room, laundry facility, indoor bike storage, and resident memberships for a car co-op.
The project fills a significant void of affordable and accessible housing in downtown Winnipeg and was delivered through an Integrated Project Delivery approach with construction managers Bockstael Construction.
The project demonstrated 34.2% energy savings and 41.6% GHG emissions savings compared to the NECB reference case. Some of the building features that contributed to the energy performance are:
- Balanced, Tempeff units with a highly effective enthalpy wheel (winter sensible effectiveness = 87%) providing the majority of the ventilation air for the building
- Lower fenestration area
- High-performance windows
- High-efficiency, WLHP’s providing space heating and cooling
- High-efficiency, condensing boilers
- High-efficiency, condensing domestic water heater
- Efficient lighting in common areas
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Client: All Saints Anglican Church and the University of Winnipeg Community Renewal Corporation
Number TEN’s Role: Prime Consultant
Size: 90,000 sq. ft.
Completion: Spring 2020
Location: Winnipeg, MB