Deadline: 14-Jan-22
The City of Vancouver is seeking innovative, novel ideas that address key challenges around its sustainability goals, particularly its Rain City Strategy.
The City is looking for Green Rainwater Infrastructure (GRI) solutions that will retain and treat urban run-off.
The Climate Emergency Action Plan (CEAP) approved in November 17th, 2020, puts Vancouver on track to reduce carbon pollution by 50% over 2007 levels by 2030 and focuses on the City’s biggest GHG sources – transportation (39%) and buildings (54%). The City also plans to transition to zero emission buildings in all new construction by 2030, and is working to create a zero waste community by 2040.
The Rain City Strategy focusses on reducing Vancouver’s water consumption and impact on local water bodies. The Strategy increases the design standard for the volume of rainwater to be managed by GRI assets to 48mm per day and establishes an ambitious implementation target to manage rainwater volume and water quality for 40% of Vancouver’s impervious areas by 2050 through new development, capital projects and strategic retrofits.
Benefits
- Participation in a high-quality EU programme that seeks to streamline state-of-the-art technologies and sustainable solutions into the Canadian Market;
- Tailored delivery of technical assistance and business coaching to enable Joint Business Concepts (JBCs) between EU SMEs & Canadian Buyers.
- The opportunity to work directly with a Canadian buyer that is actively seeking innovative solutions.
Eligibility Criteria
- All Challenges are fully open to all EU companies who feel they can meet the Buyer Challenge Statement.
- To facilitate purposeful business collaborations between Canadian Buyers and EU Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) and Small/Mid-Caps and Mature-Startups and Micro-Enterprises, that have a distinct positive low-carbon and circular economy environmental impact, are scalable, reflect a sound return on investment, and enable innovative technology transfer and business transactions.
Criteria
- The City is seeking low-cost, high impact solutions that will increase surface water recyclability. Solutions can come from a variety of GRI technologies that promote rainwater harvesting including, but not limited to: blue-green roofs, swales, rainwater tree trenches and rain gardens, etc.
- The City of Vancouver is targeting companies with solutions that land between TRL 6-9 of the technology readiness scale (TRL), although it will consider low TRL solutions on a demonstration basis if they are especially novel.
- Where applicable, proponents should explain how their solutions meets safety and regulatory standards and provide a description of successful deployments.
- Provide CAPEX and OPEX details for the solution. The City of Vancouver prefers an investment payback/cost recovery within fewer than five years. However, it will consider five- to eight-year paybacks with additional due diligence.
- If applicable, proponents should explain coverage (i.e., how many installations will the solution need?), impact (i.e., how does the solution help Vancouver achieve its Rain City Strategy, reliability (i.e., how well will the solution perform in real-world environments?).
For more information, visit https://lcbacanada.com/challenge-archive/urban-rainwater-run-off-reuse-vec-city-of-vancouver/
