- Between January and November 2010, the parking garage at Édifice de la Haute-Ville, in Québec City, underwent renovations, which included repairs to reinforced-concrete beams, columns, walls and slabs. The old concrete - 1,250 tonnes' worth - was shipped to a recycling centre, where it was crushed for reuse as backfill, while 37,535 kilograms of reinforcing steel was salvaged and repurposed.

- The new steam-based car wash that opened at Place Ville Marie in mid-October 2010 features a special water recovery and filtration procedure that makes it possible to clean the outside of an average vehicle with a mere 2.5 litres of water. Using this same process, the eco-friendly car wash at 1000 De La Gauchetière has generated substantial water savings since 2009: in 2010, 2,000 vehicles were cleaned using 5,000 litres of water, compared with the 150,000 litres that would have been required to run a conventional system. That's 30 times less! With more than 500 vehicles washed in less than three months, Place Ville Marie has already saved over 13,000 litres of water.

- Inspired by the success of the composting program for coffee grounds set up at the Centre CDP Capital in 2009, the property management team has established a similar service for paper hand towels in most of the washrooms throughout the complex. Although we make no profit on this initiative, it represents yet another step toward a broader composting program for our properties, a goal we hope to achieve in the near future. In the meantime, we expect to divert up to 16 tonnes of paper from landfill in the first year of this project, which is a joint undertaking with the adjacent 415 Saint-Antoine Ouest and 455 Saint-Antoine Ouest..