Canada Life Assurance Company

My Story behind this unit

This was my first really large project, where I had the chance to show my newest technology, the ‘Breathing Wall (even though I had done other small projects with breathing walls in private homes). When upon building the installation in the board room of the Canada Life headquarters, the University of Guelph, under the guidance of Dr. M. Dixon, was asked to do the research to prove that my ecosystem would be doing a tremendous job of purifying the air in the room. I had met Dr. Dixon some years before, and so, on my introduction to the Canada Life people, the project was able to rise to a whole new level.

My ecosystem was hooked in with the HVAC system, designed to just handle the room, but the unit had potential of being hooked in to handle the whole floor. Later on Dr. Dixon designated Alan Darlington, one of his graduate students to do the on site research for the room because of all that has happened a lot of publicity started around this project and the architects, the university itself and Canada life were usurping ownership of the eco-technology I had already developed. I found myself being marginalized by the other big players in their attempt to grab the glory.