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By Shawn Hall, TELUS Media Relations

19/10/2011 10:24:44 AM

TELUS Garden will set new standard for green living and workingVancouver council endorses TELUS Garden development, Canadas first office tower that

will be certified LEED Platinum under new standards

Vancouver, B.C. - The City of Vancouver Council endorsed the TELUS Garden

redevelopment at a public hearing last night, giving the project the go-ahead to finalize

re-zoning requirements. With this major milestone achieved, the project is on schedule to

break ground by the end of February 2012, bringing Vancouver its first LEED Platinum

building based on the new 2009 LEED standards.

The $750 million, one million square foot development will incorporate a LEED Platinum

22-storey signature office tower, a 46-storey residential tower built to the LEED Gold

standard and retail space along Robson and Georgia.

When completed in 2014, TELUS Garden will use at least 30 per cent less energy than a

standard development of its size through the use of innovative technologies and practices.

It will transfer excess heat from one building to another as needed, use solar panels topower some infrastructure, and capture rainwater for toilets and garden irrigation. Located

adjacent to the Skytrain, there will be facilities for bicycles, and charging stations for

electric cars.

Ourvision is for TELUS Garden to be a green oasis where architectural beauty, leading

edge technology, urban living and environmental sustainability merge seamlessly into a

vibrant and dynamic community. Indeed, TELUS Garden will be a breathtaking landmark

as well as an architectural icon, setting new standards for environmental stewardship,

said Darren Entwistle, TELUS President and CEO. Once complete, TELUS Garden will

transform an entire city block of downtown Vancouver into one of the most technologically

and environmentally advanced properties of commerce, employment and residential living

in the world. It will include a 450-unit residential tower and a 22-storey office tower that will

be our new corporate home.

Bounded by Georgia, Robson, Seymour, and Richards, the development will be home to

TELUS national headquarters and open up a half-million square feet of new office space

for lease as well as more than 450 green homes.
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Construction is scheduled to begin in February 2012 once all approvals are in place. The

project will pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the local economy and create three

million person-hours of employment. Once occupied, the sites business and residential

tenants will contribute an estimated $8 - $10 million in tax revenue to the city annually.

Since 2000, TELUS has invested more than $24.5 billion in B.C. technology and

operations. TELUS is investing $1.8 billion across Canada this year, including $670

million in B.C., to further enhance Canadians access to what are already among the most

advanced broadband and wireless networks anywhere in the world. Since 2000 TELUS

team members, retirees, and three B.C. community boards have contributed nearly $92

million and 2.1 million volunteer hours to more than 1,000 charitable and community

organizations across the province. TELUS has 15,000 team members and retirees in the

province, and is Metro Vancouvers largest private sector employer. Approximately 1,000

TELUS team members will work in the companys new national headquarters once it is

complete.

About TELUS

TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications company in

Canada, with $10.1 billion of annual revenue and 12.4 million customer connections

including 7.1 million wireless subscribers, 3.7 million wireline network access lines and 1.2million Internet subscribers and more than 400,000 TELUS TV customers. Led since 2000

by President and CEO, Darren Entwistle, TELUS provides a wide range of

communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice,

entertainment and video.

In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and

retirees will, by year-end 2011, have contributed $245 million to charitable and

not-for-profit organizations and volunteered 4.1 million hours of service to local

communities since 2000. Eleven TELUS Community Boards across Canada lead TELUS

local philanthropic initiatives. TELUS was honoured to be named the most outstanding

philanthropic corporation globally for 2010 by the Association of Fundraising

Professionals, becoming the first Canadian company to receive this prestigious

international recognition.

For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.

About Westbank
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Established in 1992 and with over $12 billion of projects completed or under development,

Westbank is active across Canada in a diversity of product types from luxury

condominiums, rental apartment office, commercial, retail, hotel, non-market housing and

industrial. Westbanks primary focus is on large mixed use projects involving highly

complex entitlement processes. Westbank is best known for being the leading luxury

residential developer in Canada, along with being the owner/developer of the finest hotels

in Canada. Some of its best known projects include Shangri-la Vancouver, Shangri-la

Toronto, Fairmont Pacific Rim and the Woodwards Redevelopment project.

About Henriquez Partners Architects:

Founded in 1969, Henriquez Partners Architects has led and completed a number of

large-scale projects including the $330M Woodwards Redevelopment and the landmark

LEED Gold BC Cancer Research Centre. With a reputation for successfully understanding

and marrying the needs of both the client and the community, the Henriquez Partner

philosophy is that no project is too small if it contributes to society in a meaningful way.

Current work includes a new design for the Dunbar Community Centre and the York

Theatre heritage revitalization project. Henriquez Partners has a demonstrated ability to

organize and manage projects from design through to construction and the technical

expertise to build buildings that stand the test of time.

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