When properly designed and installed, plumbing systems will provide many decades of problem-free service. Careful corrosion engineering management, including attention to details such as materials selection, fluid mechanics, water-chemistry control, protective coatings, cathodic protection,...
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The visionary concept of a carbon-absorbing building may soon be a buildable reality, based on a reductive approach to construction—rather than the typical additive one, which builds a structure first and adds to it—,...
A new federal-provincial-territorial (FPT) governance model has replaced the Canadian Commission on Building and Fire Codes(CCBFC), the committee responsible for code development in Canada since 1991, introducing a harmonized set of codes to reduce...
George Brown College’s mass timber building, Limberlost Place, currently under construction in Toronto at the Waterfront campus, is shortlisted for a 2022 World Architecture Festival award and is already one of the 20 winners...
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has certified the 86.6-m (284-ft), 25-storey Ascent building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the tallest mass timber structure in the world in two categories—the tallest timber...
Toronto architecture and design firm BDP Quadrangle’s blueprint for Minto Communities GTA’s North Oak Tower 3 in Oakville, Ont., shows reverence for biophilic design principles through incorporation of nature-inspired materials and a layout maximizing...
Designing masonry cavity walls
(08/29/2022)
A look into the design of three types of masonry cavity walls: simple cavity drainage walls, air-vented cavity drainage walls, and rainscreen pressure-equalized cavity walls.
GTA firms break ground on Meadowvale Commerce Park
(07/26/2022)
H&R Real Estate Investment Trust (H&R REIT), headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Tribal Partners, based in Vaughan, Ontario, have begun work on two industrial facilities spanning over 31,400 m2 (337,000 sf) at Mississauga’s Meadowvale...
Insulating buildings for green standard compliance
(07/12/2022)
Rising above Toronto’s Bayside community, a mixed-use neighbourhood on the shore of Lake Ontario, stands the 14-storey Aquabella condominium development.
A new Vancouver office building known as oN5 was quickly constructed with entirely insulated, prefabricated cross-laminated timber (CLT)
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