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December 19, 2006
Women at the helm at condo development
TORONTO
Leading Ontario developers Plazacorp and Berkley have assigned a female-dominated team to head West Harbour City condos situated on prime lakefront real estate property in Toronto.
Vice-president of Stephenson Engineering, Saundra Cullen, Isabelle Kazanczuk, senior architect with Quadrangle Architects, and senior interior designer with Bryon Patton and Associates, Enid Macintosh, have joined forces to oversee the two-phase project.
The first phase consists of a 36-storey tower, 12-storey podium, and 10 townhouses. Phase 2 is a 27-storey tower, 11-storey podium and nine townhouses.
“It is not normal to have so many women on any one project, in such leadership roles, on a project of this size,” Cullen says about the construction of the lakefront Toronto condo.
“There are more women involved in the technical aspects of building than ever before. But I’m a lot older than the other ladies on this project and was a real oddity when I started in this industry.”
The construction and design posed more challenging than other projects in the city, the developers said in a press release.
Directly on the lakefront overlooking Lake Ontario, the construction of West Harbour City will be on reclaimed land with a foundation below the water table.
Every suite will have energy-efficient appliances. A tri-sorter for recycling garbage and organic waste will exist on each floor, in rooms with motion-detector lighting. A heat exchanger in the swimming pool area will recycle warm air to help heat the pool.
Kazanczuk, Macintosh, and Cullen believe West Harbour City will benefit from a female-dominated team.
“It’s a very co-operative effort and when we meet, there are no egos in the room,” says Macintosh. “This may be an over-generalization, but I think women are more nurturing and know how to take a cold box or space, warm it up and give it heart.”
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