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  • Peach Arch Visitor Info Centre

The new tourism information centre is intended to replace the considerably less visible existing centre in keeping with the significance of Douglas Border Crossing as the busiest noncommercial "point of entry" into Western Canada from the USA.

The centre employs a combination of passively reduced heating loads and an in-floor radiant heating and cooling system. Building orientation minimizes the negative impact of the site's extreme north/south orientation by creating high thermal mass concrete walls on the east and west faces of the building and employing a large roof overhang shading the southern elevation. All proposed materials are chosen carefully to reduce the amount of embodied energy and the off gassing of toxins or VOCs. A number of local BC engineered forest products are showcased.