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A new, sustainable community with a futuristic look is being built in London, as work finally begins on Eve Park.
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Oct 10, 2022 • 15 hours ago • 3 minute read • 
Mike Sousa and Kyle MacDaniel of Nucor Harris Rebar tie in rebar for the walls that will soon go up in the Eve Park residential development west of Sifton’s West 5 community in west London. Eve Park, like West 5, is intended to be a net-zero community, meaning it will generate as much electricity as it uses. Photograph taken on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. (Mike Hensen/The London Free Press)
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A new sustainable community with a futuristic look is being built in London, as work finally begins on Eve Park.
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London’s $55-million net-zero community that pledges to feed as much energy back to the grid as it uses is on the rise with foundations poured last week for two of the four condominium buildings to be built in the River Bend area, near London’s other net zero community, West 5.
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The developer for Eve Park, S2E Technologies, is building in two phases, with the first phase of two buildings expected to be occupied by the spring of 2023.
There will be 21 units in each building and 36 of the 42 units already have been sold, said Ashley Hammerbacher, project lead for S2E.
“We’re very proud of this design. We’re very excited,” she said. “This community is all about sustainability.”
Foundations were poured this week for two of four condominiums Eve Park is building in west London. The development is shown in an artist’s rendering. Photo by Supplied photo
In addition to its sustainability, Eve Park is notable for its design of four circular buildings, each scaling from one to four storeys and ending with a parking garage five storeys high.
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The condominiums come in one-, two- and three-bedroom models and range in price from more than $500,000 to $1.2 million.
“It is an exciting project. It is one-of-a-kind but will be part of a larger community,” said Danny Almeida, project manager for EllisDon that is doing the build.
“It is a signature project.”
S2E also plans on offering a car-share program as part of the development. Each parking garage will house electric cars that residents can book for use, for an hourly fee, through an app offered by Eve Park.
In fact, Eve stands for “electric vehicle enclave park,” Hammerbacher said.
“It is very cool, definitely another innovative part of the program,” she said.
The planned parking garages will be “mechanized towers” where cars will be rotated to different levels and, when needed, rotated to ground level.
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“It will be carousel fashion, like a mini Ferris wheel that can be rotated to park or pull out their cars. It’s like a giant vending machine,” she said.
An artist’s drawing of a courtyard planned for Eve Park. Photo by Supplied photo
Although it is next to West 5, the two projects are separate and West 5 builder Sifton Properties is not involved in Eve Park.
Eve Park worked with London Hydro on the build that has been in the planning stages for about four years.
“We have been working with Eve Park and we are looking forward to it being built,” said Vinay Sharma, chief executive of London Hydro.
“This will help our community. It will not add a burden to the grid. It will not add cost to the grid.”
Sharma applauded the “leading-edge innovation” of the development suggesting it may impact building design and the broader construction industry.
“The net-zero trend is growing. Other communities in Toronto and Ottawa are now net-zero, too. It is catching,” he said.
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Eve Park will be covered in solar panels, and units will be built to strict environmental standards using low-energy appliances, low-water use toilets and showers, and heating and cooling systems that are highly efficient, Hammerbacher said.
“We will also have quite a few energy-monitoring systems where residents can see consumption and mitigate it as they see fit,” she said.
S2E Technologies began as a partner in solar farm development in Canada more than 10 years ago and has grown its footprint in the green energy sector working on various building projects.
Eve Park is the first time S2E has worked to build housing, but it has surrounded itself with an experienced team, Hammerbacher said.
Along with EllisDon as the construction project manager, the architectural firms Gensler and StudioDror, both headquartered in New York, did the design work.
“Our team has a lot of experience and we have innovative architects,” Hammerbacher said. “The team we have out together is exceptional.”
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