New Research Proposal

Since I changed my topic I didn't bother updating my old research proposal. So I wrote up a quick one instead outlining my plans for this project. Hope you enjoy.

Summary Statement of Proposed Project

The Banff National Park is one of the largest tourist attractions in Western Canada. It offers great scenery, hiking, skiing, climbing, biking, and almost any outdoor activity you can think of. The Park tries very hard to stay clean and luscious to keep it as natural of a park as possible. This can be very challenging at times with the amount of people visiting the park year round. In Banff there are lots of high and low priced resorts and hotels, which use up a lot of the parks energy. So shouldn’t these resorts but a better effort to be more sustainable? The Banff Rocky Mountain Resort is a smaller resort located a little ways out of Banff, and it is in need of a few renovations. For my project I plan on, not only renovating it but attempting to make it a LEED Gold building, the first of its kind in the Banff Park.

The purpose of this project is to sustain some of the environmental impact on our countries wonderful National Parks. If this can be proven to be successful then maybe other hotels and resorts will follow their lead.

 The goal of this is to achieve LEED Gold Status on the resort’s entire site. The great thing about LEED is there are different certifications that can be achieved, so if Gold status is much too hard to achieve or finically doesn’t make sense then it can be conclude that LEED silver status is practical then gold. So feasibly does play a role in this project.

I aim to research how I can apply each LEED point to my site. By researching various other LEED building I plan on using similar systems to improve of heating and cooling costs as well as reduction in potable water use. By using LEED Canada guidelines I should be able to find a sufficient amount of information on each and every point. To be LEED Gold 36 to 51 points must be achieved out of a possible 70. So this does leave room for some of the more costly improvements to be ignored.

I plan on using a blog to distribute my information and new discoveries. It will be easy for others to follow a long and see how my project is going. Also later on an abstract will be created summarizing the amount of actual research that has been done.