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Facility Development - East Dartmouth Community Centre
Citadel Design

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Key Features

Environmental Features

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Key Features

  • Large, fully wheelchair accessible Athletic Community Centre
  • Overall building area of approximately 13,692 ft² (1,272 m²).
  • A multi-purpose room of approx. 900 ft² (84 m²) with wood floor.
  • A gymnasium of approx. 8,557 ft² (795 m²) with wood floor, which includes:
    • one full size basketball main court
    • two cross court basketball courts
    • one volleyball main court
    • two volleyball cross courts
    • six badminton courts
  • Male and female change rooms with lockers and showers
  • Family change room
  • The ability to play host to provincial and national sporting events i.e wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby, basketball, volleyball, goal ball and badminton to name a few
  • Fully accessible locker rooms
  • Fully accessible Activity Studio with hard wood floor for dance, yoga, fitness, tai chi, martial arts and pilates
  • The two athletic facilities can be scheduled for different types of activities or be utilized to host one type of tournament or activity.

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Environmental Features

  • The Citadel High School and Citadel Community Centre achieved a “LEED” (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver certification. To be “LEED” certified, a building earns points for design features that promote a healthy design environment, reduce costs and prevent waste. The LEED ™ green building rating system provides a recognized standard for the construction industry to assess the environmental sustainability of building designs.


The building incorporated design, construction and operational practices that combine healthy, high-quality and high-performance advantages with reduced environmental impacts.

The building achieved credits in six categories:
1. Site Development
2. Water Efficiency
3. Energy Efficiency
4. Material Selection
5. Indoor Environmental Quality
6. Innovation in Design

The building will benefit from an improved indoor environment, lower maintenance costs, higher corporate profile and reduced risk of remedial measures.


All LEED rated buildings must meet the stringent requirements of the Natural Resources Canada's Commercial Building Incentive Program (CBIP) - reducing energy consumption by 25% relative to the Model Energy Code for Buildings.


A key benefit to this Project is reduced energy costs for the life of the building.

  • Installation of Waterless urinals in Male washrooms throughout the facility.
  • The use of rainwater collected from the roof for the supply of water to toilets.
  • The school cafeteria has a green roof.
  • A green roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and soil, or a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing roof membrane.
  • Heated from steam from the QEII Health Sciences Centre
  • Landscaped with indigenous plants
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