The District of Barriere Solar Aquatics System was designed to reclaimed water from sewage to be used to irrigate green space within the town.  The system was built to expand capacity from 250m3/day to 500m3/day. The facility has an office, lab and meeting rooms to accommodate the Public Works staff.  The greenhouse was built with an upper catwalk to facilitate a bioponics systems that would grow plant starts for a future Village Garden Project.

The Office & Operations building is a super insulated building using the following: radiant barriers and exterior EPS on concrete slabs and walls; double stud walls with mineral wool and radiant barriers; and EPS with radiant barriers on the roof.  All slabs have radiant tubing with unique zone controls that use return water temperature to control a variable volume valve to each zone.  Heat sources are passive solar to the greenhouse and a wood chip boiler is installed to supply district heating to office, greenhouse and other adjacent civic buildings.