We save 35,500 cubic meters of water every year, more than our largest room, thanks to our environmental practices.
Sustainable development is in the Québec City Convention Centre’s DNA. At the Convention Centre, event participants can gather in safe, healthy areas. Our commitment is reflected in the concrete steps we take to reduce the environmental impact of all the events held here and to ensure sustainable operations and eco-friendly food service. We work to support the local economy, promote local culture, and encourage artists to give back to the community. We make it easy to host an eco-friendly event.
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15 years of eco-friendly events
The Québec City Convention Centre has been committed to sustainable development since it opened in 1996. In 2022 we’re celebrating 15 years of exclusively eco-friendly events, having launched this turnkey program in 2007 to encourage our clients to join us in our commitment to sustainable development.
Leader in sustainable development
As a leader in sustainable development, we hold ourselves to high environmental management standards every day to make the Centre a place where visitors can meet comfortably today, without worrying about the impact tomorrow.
Event and meeting planners can count on our skilled staff, state-of-the-art equipment, and a proven waste collection and management system, all included in the base price. We aim to recycle at least 80% of all the waste and biodegradable materials produced by our activities.
Our employees are vigilant in following the efficient building management procedures we’ve developed over the years to support our sustainable development action plan and our environmental policy. This is one of our many strengths, and we’re proud of it. Every day the Québec City Convention Centre team gets to work on a wide range of sustainable operations so event participants, occupants, and visitors can enjoy their event in a comfortable setting and with a low environmental impact.
We reduce, recycle, and reclaim waste!
Reducing waste at the source means generating fewer residual and waste materials. Did you know that conference goers produce three times more waste at an event than at home? That’s a big problem. We encourage event planners and exhibition promoters to include waste reduction in their eco-friendly event planning.
If waste and biodegradable materials are produced—which happens, of course—our staff collects everything and works with our partners to find recycling or repurposing solutions. Our goal is to recycle or reuse no less than 80% of all residual materials. And thanks to our standardized daily collection system, acclaimed by industry experts, we’re making that happen. At the Québec City Convention Centre, we manage event waste and biodegradable materials FREE OF CHARGE. It’s a service we INCLUDE in our price. You don’t pay extra.
Waste management at a glance:
The Québec City Convention Centre is a smart building run by a highly experienced and multidisciplinary management team. Our monitoring system tracks temperature in real time and adjusts energy use according to traffic and client needs. It’s important to us to carefully manage air quality, energy, and water carefully every day. Why? For environmental and financial reasons, of course, but also because it safeguards the comfort, health, and well-being of conference-goers and Convention Centre visitors and employees.
Air quality is a health issue
Did you know that we conduct between 10 and 12 air changes in the rooms per hour, and that we use high-efficiency air filters?
Energy, water, and air management at a glance:
Taking a drink of water seems like a simple thing to do at first glance. But imagine what it involves in a convention centre with more than 200,000 visitors a year. We can’t live without water, but it’s a non-renewable resource.
At the Québec City Convention Centre, refreshing, filtered water is available free of charge in every room. We did away with plastic pitchers of bottled water a long time ago! Now we have water fountains equipped with high-performance filters connected directly to the municipal water system. Visitors and event participants enjoy high-quality drinking water—Québec City water—without harming the environment.
The Centre also has contactless water fountains in public areas. They’re ideal for filling reusable water bottles and cutting back on single-use plastic!
Would you like to host an eco-friendly event? Choosing the Québec City Convention Centre is a step in the right direction. We are eco-friendly event pioneers. Our operations and food service are gentle on the environment, our staff is highly trained, and our LEED-certified building meets the strictest environmental management standards.
Did you know?
The Québec City Convention Centre was the first meeting facility in Canada to offer an eco-friendly event planning program. We also helped create Bureau de la normalisation du Québec’s sustainable event management standard.
Lucie Champagne, president of Champagne Événements
Your event at the Québec City Convention Centre will automatically meet the Level 1 requirements of the BNQ 9700-253 Responsible event management standard. Our focus on sustainability ensures our operations are environmentally sound, and that gives you a sizable advantage. Then it’s up to you to target higher levels, as many of our clients have done.
Have you thought of making your Québec City event meaningful for participants and sponsors by using it to support a charitable cause? Plenty of local charities need help. To put it simply, your event could do a world of good in Québec City.
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Three practical tools are available to organizers who would like their event to be even greener or to obtain a higher level of certification:
Would you like to enlist the services of a sustainable event specialist? Do you want to offset your event’s environmental impact and the GHGs associated with event transport? Talk to one of our partners:
Respect for the environment, social responsibility, and economic viability are all central to the Québec City Convention Centre’s vision, operations, and business culture. Read about the sustainability policies and plans we’ve developed over the years.
The role of the Québec City Convention Centre as a partner in economic development takes several forms. We care about the community, and we show it in many different ways.
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