Lianne Cockerton, a mechanical HVAC engineer with Montreal-based Martin Roy et Associés, has won the 2023 ASHRAE Award of Engineering Excellence for her work as lead design engineer on the Local 144 headquarters and plumbing training facility in Pointe-aux-Trembles, Quebec. She received the honour for attaining the top score among international-level Technology Award winners in nine building categories.
Canadians engineers captured a third of this year’s awards recognizing innovative building design that promotes effective energy management and indoor air quality, which were bestowed February 4th during ASHRAE’s 2023 winter meeting in Atlanta. Cockerton also received the Technology Award in the institutional building category, while Simon Kattoura, vice president, construction at Kolostat Inc. in Laval, Quebec, won in the industrial facilities category, and Adrianne Mitani, mechanical associate with Smith + Andersen in Ottawa, took honours in the residential category.
All recipients advanced after first winning Technology Awards at the ASHRAE chapter level in 2022. Contenders are judged on six design and operational outcomes: energy efficiency; indoor air quality; innovation; maintenance and operations; cost effectiveness; and environmental impact.
The Local 144 administrative and training centre is home to Quebec’s pipe trades workers affiliated with the United Association. The LEED Platinum certified facility links its two components — the mass timber office pavilion and the steel frame training centre — via a suspended walkway, and boasts a high-performance building envelope, a 430-panel rooftop photovoltaic array and a combination geothermal and variable refrigerant flow (VRF) air source heat pump system.
It achieves an annual energy use intensity of 133 kilowatt-hours per square metre, translating to a 81 per cent reduction relative to a baseline reference building under the ASHRAE 90.1-2010 energy standard. Annual average water consumption of 1,612 litres per occupant is also 81 per cent below the LEED reference building.
Kattoura’s industrial facility accolades are for his work on upgrades to the central cooling plant and ventilation system at Hood Packaging Corporation’s Glopak division in Montreal. Mitani was recognized for Claridge Homes’ Loop, a 27-storey luxury rental apartment tower in downtown Ottawa.
Cockerton and Kattoura are both members of ASHRAE’s Montreal chapter, while Mitani belongs to the Ottawa Valley chapter. They join a global slate of Technology Award winners for 2023, who received their honours for work on buildings located in Tokyo, Hong Kong and the United States.
