The PanAm Sports Centre is the single largest investment in amateur sport in Canada. The venue consists of two Olympic Standard pools, an Olympic Standard Diving Tank all with seating for 8,000 spectators total. Also included is a field house with 3 gyms, racket sport venue and training facilities as well as the administrative offfices of the Canadian Sports Institute Ontario. The facility is located on a former landfill site at the edge of the campus of the University of Toronto Scarborough and is jointly owned by the City of Toronto and UT Scarborough.

The largest green roof on the facility is located on a sloping roof over the practice pool, the second largest and the third green roof are over the field house. The other two vegetative roofs are over the administrative facilities of CSIO on the northeast side of the building. The remainder of the roof area, over the main pool, is dedicated to a large photovoltaic solar array.