Walk with Joy
ULI Toronto's Executive Director questions those who pave over a city's front yard paradise The post Walk with Joy appeared first on Building Magazine.
View ArticleCommunities essential to meet provincial, territorial and community energy...
Communities are central to enabling provincial and territorial governments to achieve their energy objectives through the implementation of Community Energy Plans (CEPs), finds a new report released by...
View ArticleCiPA opens nominations for inaugural Smart Community Applications and...
i-CANADA and its partners announced nominations are open for a new Canadian awards program called CiPA: the Community i-Performance Awards. The awards are aimed at urban and remote communities, both...
View ArticleToronto area hospital ‘tops off’
Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness reached a topping off milestone in its construction. The 585,000-square-foot ambulatory care clinic designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects in...
View ArticleOntario Building and Construction Trades Council signal endorsement of...
Bruce Power and the Ontario Building and Construction Trades are joining forces through a new collaboration agreement signalling a shared commitment to the ongoing role of nuclear power in the province...
View ArticleCaGBC announces 2015 Greenest Schools in Canada
The Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) and the Canada Coalition for Green Schools have announced the winners of the second-annual CaGBC Greenest School in Canada competition: St. Marguerite...
View ArticleGreen office buildings deliver higher income and value: study
Sustainable buildings experience higher rent, occupancy, renewals and tenant satisfaction, demonstrates new academic study based on 10 years of Bentall Kennedy portfolio data The post Green office...
View ArticleMinto unveils Net Zero Energy home in Kanata
Minto Communities Canada has built a Net Zero Energy Ready (NZEr) home in Kanata’s Arcadia community as one of four newly designed show homes. Called The Killarney, it is projected to reduce total home...
View ArticleBromont launches new Faubourg 1792 project
Bromont Real Estate is introducing Faubourg 1792, billed as the region’s first Novoclimat 2.0-certified neighbourhood, and covering an area of 20 hectares in the heart of Bromont Village, a 90-minute...
View ArticleU.S. building and real estate companies join call for action on climate change
As Paris readies for the COP21 International Climate talks, more than 54 building and real estate companies, including Thornton Tomasetti, Skanska and JLL, announced today that they have signed on to...
View ArticleMattamy Homes completes net zero energy home in Calgary
Home will be first in Calgary to receive government recognition of Net Zero Energy performance The post Mattamy Homes completes net zero energy home in Calgary appeared first on Building Magazine.
View ArticleHatch donates solar roof to new Oakville Hospital
Hatch is proud to announce the successful completion of a state-of-the-art rooftop solar array, which will provide clean energy and revenue to the newly opened Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital....
View ArticleNorth American Precast Concrete Industry issues EPDs in three precast...
The North American Precast Concrete industry has released Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) in three key precast concrete product categories that will allow architects, engineers, building...
View ArticleOakWood Renovation opens new headquarters by Hobin & Associates
Ottawa-based OakWood Renovation Experts decided to turn their 58 years of home renovation experience on themselves, and teamed up with Barry J. Hobin & Associates Architects for a new corporate...
View ArticleNous sommes COP21
In early December, 196 governments met in Paris for a climate change summit hosted by the UN. The 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) was where world leaders and negotiators attempted to agree on a...
View ArticleNew CaGBC market impact report demonstrates green buildings are an engine of...
A new Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) and The Delphi Group report titled Green Building in Canada: Assessing the Market Impacts & Opportunities, is detailing the wide economic impact that the...
View ArticleThe Green in Green
New studies show tangible benefits from improved sustainability performance across the North American commercial real estate sector The post The Green in Green appeared first on Building Magazine.
View ArticleWinter City Q&A pt. 1: Ben Henderson, Ward 8 Councillor, City of Edmonton
Why did you select the Winter City when the Mayor asked what was your priority? Maybe it was a memory. People presume that the things we do here in summertime sprung fully formed; but I remember back...
View ArticleWinter City Q&A pt. 2: Sue Holdsworth, Urban Planner & Winter City...
What is the context for Edmonton’s Winter City strategy? When the mayor asked all the councillors what they were particularly interested in terms of the initiatives they would like to focus on,...
View ArticleWinter City Q&A pt. 3: Patrick Coleman, founder and CEO of Winter Cities...
What has been the history behind the Winter Cities Institute? In the late ‘70s there was a small group meeting in Minneapolis called the Committee on Urban Environment. After the meeting, two guys were...
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