Business View Magazine | July 2019

173 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2019 CENTRE 200 On the “green” front, Centre 200 has changed all its lighting to LED, which was a huge investment but the return in energy savings, especially in electrical costs, has been well worth it. “We did the same thing with our ice plant,” MacDonald notes. “We heated the building for years with oil. And five years ago, we put in a new Simcoe Refrigeration ice plant – when you make ice, there is a tremendous amount of heat generated. We captured all of that energy, similar to a heat pump principle, and used it to provide heat for the building, which virtually eliminated the use of oil. We still have oil as a backup, or a supplement, when needed in the cold months of February when it gets to minus 25 Celsius; the heat pump can’t sustain that. So, we’ve gone from $200,000 per year in oil expenditure to $40,000, using our own heat energy to heat the building. So, that’s been a positive for us.” Otherwise, there are more green improvements to be made. The Centre does the usual recycling of bottles and cans, etc., but they want to be more efficient with food waste from the concessions, more than anything else. Long-time Box Office Supervisor, Nadine Matthews, reflects, “Although, the municipality here is number one in Nova Scotia for recycling, it’s implementing it with the public in this building that’s the challenge. The curling crowd was very in tune to that, whereas hockey crowds. . . that’s where the educating comes in on the importance of recycling.” Long-term business relationships have greatly contributed to Centre 200’s success. MacDonald acknowledges, “We really appreciate our media partners in radio and print; they’ve been with us forever. Our food supplier, Sysco Foods, one of the largest in the world, has been a consistent long- time partner. Cimco Refrigeration is the largest ice plant refrigeration company on the planet; Toromont is their parent company, and they’ve been our main ice supplier and maintenance technical people for as long as I can remember. PepsiCo, our beverage provider, has a local bottler in this area and they’ve been with us since the building opened. In all, we have about 17 companies using our corporate system that are great supporters of Centre 200.” 7071 Bayers Road, Suite 2001, Halifax, N.S. (902) 429-0701 341 Townsend Street, Sydney, N.S. (902) 562-8090 9 Tamarck Terrace, Moncton, N.B. (506) 383-8733 Electrical and mechanical engineering consultants offering services in the building sciences covering: www.onsa.ca PLUMBING DESIGN HEATING DESIGN VENTILATION DESIGN AIR CONDITIONING DESIGN SPRINKLER DESIGN ENERGY ANALYSIS LIGHTING (INTERIOR, ROADWAY & FLOODLIGHTING) DUE DILIGENCE SURVEYS POWER FIRE ALARM VOICE/DATA ELECTRICAL GENERATION NURSE CALL PUBLIC ADDRESS SHORT CIRCUIT ANALYSIS CO-ORDINATION STUDIES TENDERING