Since its introduction, insulating glass units (IGUs) have provided significant reductions in operational carbon emissions from buildings—yet, they increase the embodied (upfront) carbon. This is because the amount of energy (and carbon) intensive glass...
Tag: Carbon Emissions
In a historic move, the House of Commons unanimously approved Bill S-222, championed by MP Richard Cannings from South Okanagan-West Kootenay, British Columbia. This legislation promotes the use of wood-based construction materials to reduce...
Effective as of May, the BC Building Code introduced changes to require better energy efficiency in most new buildings in the province, and either encourage or require lower carbon emissions in new buildings.
A new program called MultiRés was announced at the Montreal Climate Summit. The program focuses on decarbonizing mid-sized buildings in the Montreal Metropolitan Community.
PCL and Limberlost Place partners are celebrating a significant construction milestone at George Brown College’s (GBC’s) Limberlost Place with the installation of a two-storey mass timber pedestrian bridge erected 19.8 m (65 ft) above...
False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility (NEU) in Vancouver will use five more wastewater energy transfer (WET) systems, provided by SHARC Energy, to increase the capacity of the current WET system—making it the largest such...
While off-road construction vehicles only contribute to 1.1 per cent of global emissions, International Energy Agency’s estimates for the overall construction industry suggest a 20 per cent involvement in the global carbon footprint.
The Canada Green Building Council (CAGBC) has introduced the latest version of its Zero Carbon Building-Design (ZCB-Design) Standard,
WorldGBC addresses embodied emissions in new update
(09/28/2021)
The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) updated its Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment (the Commitment) to include embodied carbon and other requirements for addressing embodied emissions.
York University’s new bioclimatic building, designed by Baird Sampson Neuert, delivers an exemplary level of energy efficiency and environmental quality and occupant comfort.
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