Facility

Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre meets the highest Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) accessibility standards. 

• The venue includes two accessible change rooms, each featuring a hydraulic change table, and accessible showers and fixtures. 

• The building has been designed to ensure accessible and sufficiently wide routes and powered door openers. 

• Tethering areas for service animals are available in all aquatic halls and the field house. 

• There is enhanced seating in the aquatics hall and field house, including companion seats. 

• The facility includes oversized elevators to carry large teams of para-­‐athletes to the field of play from ground level entrances. 

• The training pool has a movable floor to accommodate various water depths for swimming and mobility levels, and features a pal lift to accommodate accessible entry to the end of the pool.

The following programs and services are provided: 

• fully accessible sport facilities for parasport coaches and athletes to train. 

• coaching programs and professional development opportunities for parasport coaches. 

The facility has been built to comply with the principles of inclusiveness.

"The most accessible sports facility in the world!"

-Michael Frogley

National Academy Director and Head Coach at Wheelchair Basketball Canada

Resources

AODA Customer Service Standards (update Jan 10, 2024)

• Facilities of Merit 2015 - Athletic Business Magazine

• 2014 Large Project Achievement Award – Toronto Construction Association

• 2016 Parks and Recreation Ontario Awards – Excellence in Design Award

• 2015 Design Award Winner: Best Stadium/Area -Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute

• 2015 Ontario Concrete Awards – Architectural Institutional Building

• Best Project built in Ontario for 2015 – Ontario General Contractors Association

• 2015 Athletic Business Facility of Merit – Athletic Business Conference & Expo

• 2016 Engineering News Record's Global Best Project Awards

• 2016 Communication Arts Magazine - Design, Environmental, Sports

• 2017 Graphis Magazine - Design Annual

LEED certification provides independent, third-party verification that a building, home or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at achieving high performance in key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality.

Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre:

• is approximately 54% more energy-efficient than a building designed to standard building code.

• uses approximately 37% less water than a standard code building. This saves about 1,800,000 litres of water per year.

• has 5,223m of solar panels installed. That’s enough energy to power over 20 standard homes a year.

• had over 95% of the site’s total construction waste was diverted from landfill.

• used at least 30% of the materials used to construct TPASC contain recycled materials.

• has 100 geothermal wells installed and drilled to a depth of 600 feet.

• uses an irrigation system that is rain water fed, reducing water consumption.

• has a green roof that blankets TPASC, further regulating and reducing energy consumption.