A new mass timber community centre rising in Vancouver’s Marpole neighbourhood is a showpiece of a number of progressive goals shaping public architecture in Canada today. The building is designed to meet high performance Passive House standards, ambitious embodied carbon reductions, and reach high levels of accessibility standards, while also responding to the needs of community members who will use the facility every day. ….The Marpole Community Centre is the first new community centre commissioned by the city in about a decade. The project combines Passive House certification, LEED Gold targets, a 40 percent embodied carbon reduction goal, and Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification. Landing these impressive targets, while keeping the community at the heart of the project has come with trade-offs but also amazing learning opportunities, said Inglis, who will be sharing more about this project at the upcoming Passive House Canada Conference in May.