SOPREMA Plant, Woodstock Building, Ontario Factory, New Canadian Commercial, Architects, Architecture Photos
SOPREMA Plant in Woodstock, ON
26 Jun 2022
Architects: Lemay
Location: Woodstock, Ontario, Canada

Photos by David Boyer
SOPREMA Plant, Canada
Lemay’s Sustainable Design of a New SOPREMA Plant Sets Manufacturing Standard With a LEED Certification

Leveraging architecture, interior design, landscape, and engineering to make a positive impact on climate change, SOPREMA?s new plant in Woodstock, Ontario marks a new chapter for eco-conscious manufacturing. Designed by the architecture and design firm Lemay, these facilities help set new standards with its green building leadership in efficient carbon- and cost-savings, in addition to a focus on employee health and well-being.
Using Lemay?s rigorous, award-winning NET POSITIVETM framework as guidance, the design of this location makes leaps and bounds in Canada by making sustainability a core element of its conception and creation. Following an in-depth lifecycle assessment that measured the facilities capabilities against the next 60 years of operation, SOPREMA?s Woodstock plant achieved a global standard of green building with a LEED v4 certification, an internationally recognized symbol of sustainability excellence from the Canada Green Building Council.

Numerous efforts were made to reduce the environmental impact of the plant: While its construction preferred local and recycled materials with 80% of its const...