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BARRIE WASTE WATER INNOVATION (WWIC) Winner of the Canadian Architects Award of Excellence WWIC is an all-electric facil...
12/11/2025

BARRIE WASTE WATER INNOVATION (WWIC) Winner of the Canadian Architects Award of Excellence

WWIC is an all-electric facility powered by a 350.8 kW-DC rooftop solar photovoltaic array sized to offset the building’s projected annual electricity consumption. High-performance envelope design, passive daylighting, heat recovery, and advanced building controls support the goal of achieving operational net-zero energy and net-zero emissions. Narrow floor plates and clerestory glazing bring natural light deep into the interior, and durable, low-maintenance materials contribute to healthy, long-lasting workspaces.

Together, these strategies reinforce WWIC as a forward-looking civic building, creating a facility that is truly sustainable both technically and socially, in alignment with the City of Barrie’s corporate climate action plan.

BARRIE WASTER WATER INNOVATION CENTRE (WWIC) Winner of the Canadian Architect Award of Excellence WWIC is an all-electri...
12/11/2025

BARRIE WASTER WATER INNOVATION CENTRE (WWIC) Winner of the Canadian Architect Award of Excellence

WWIC is an all-electric facility powered by a 350.8 kW-DC rooftop solar photovoltaic array sized to offset the building’s projected annual electricity consumption. High-performance envelope design, passive daylighting, heat recovery, and advanced building controls support the goal of achieving operational net-zero energy and net-zero emissions. Narrow floor plates and clerestory glazing bring natural light deep into the interior, and durable, low-maintenance materials contribute to healthy, long-lasting workspaces.

Together, these strategies reinforce WWIC as a forward-looking civic building, creating a facility that is truly sustainable both technically and socially, in alignment with the City of Barrie’s corporate climate action plan.

BARRIE WASTE WATER INNOVATION CENTRE (WWIC) Winner of the Canadian Architect Award of Excellence WWIC transforms the arc...
12/08/2025

BARRIE WASTE WATER INNOVATION CENTRE (WWIC) Winner of the Canadian Architect Award of Excellence

WWIC transforms the archetypal “big box” shed into a carefully sculpted civic form. Along Bradford Street, the corners of the volume are lifted to acknowledge the urban significance of the site. Functionally, these lifted corners bring natural light deeper into the floor plate and create a sense of openness for users and a beacon back to the public realm.

Emerging from the ground like an infrastructural landscape element, the building’s materiality and scale express the industrial sublime. Fluted Canadian-made weathering steel cladding panels are animated by shifting daylight, revealing a continuous play of light and shadow. These flutes also help to regulate daylight, reducing glare and solar heat gain to support comfortable working environments for staff.

BARRIE WASTE WATER INNOVATION CENTRE (WWIC) Winner of the 2025 Canadian Architects Award of Excellence WWIC transforms t...
12/08/2025

BARRIE WASTE WATER INNOVATION CENTRE (WWIC) Winner of the 2025 Canadian Architects Award of Excellence

WWIC transforms the archetypal “big box” shed into a carefully sculpted civic form. Along Bradford Street, the corners of the volume are lifted to acknowledge the urban significance of the site. Functionally, these lifted corners bring natural light deeper into the floor plate and create a sense of openness for users and a beacon back to the public realm.

Emerging from the ground like an infrastructural landscape element, the building’s materiality and scale express the industrial sublime. Fluted Canadian-made weathering steel cladding panels are animated by shifting daylight, revealing a continuous play of light and shadow. These flutes also help to regulate daylight, reducing glare and solar heat gain to support comfortable working environments for staff.

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