The Palais des congrès de Montréal has its Boma Best environmental certification renewed until 2020. Boma Best is Canada’s largest environmental assessment and certification program.

“We are pleased with our energy saving outcomes stemming from equipment we’ve replaced via our asset maintenance program, including the replacement of a chiller and two winter water towers, and the restoration of our summer water towers,” says Stéphane Alarie, the Palais’ Director of Building Management.

“The complexity of managing operations tied to hosting different events at different times of the day renders this recertification that much more rewarding,” Alarie went on to say.

Optimizing the control of fresh air supply circulating throughout the property’s distribution system has enabled the Palais to reduce its energy consumption by almost 3%, in a building that hosts nearly 350 events a year, 900,000 visitors, and spans 1.4 million sq. ft.

The Palais des congrès de Montréal became, in 2005, one of the first convention centres in Canada to be Boma Best certified. Also, the Responsible Procurement Policy it recently adopted is raising awareness among the Palais’ staff, partners and suppliers about the importance of consuming, producing and purchasing responsibly.

Montréal and the Palais are ASTM-APEX certified (Accepted Practices Exchange) as a green convention site.