One of Canada’s largest privately-owned consulting engineering firms, CIMA+, has opened an office in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to better serve its existing clientele in all four Atlantic provinces, while pursuing growth plans in that...
Tag: Energy
McMaster University is implementing a geothermal system to heat its new campus greenhouse, which is currently being constructed near the Life Sciences Building.
The government of Yukon has drafted new rules that can be used to govern roads located on public land, opening access to resources across the territory.
In December 2022, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) broke ground at Darlington nuclear site, on what is being touted as Canada’s first grid-scale small modular reactor (SMR) in decades, to ensure enhanced and cleaner electricity...
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...
A global report by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found that despite an increase in investment and worldwide success in lowering the energy intensity of buildings, the sector’s total energy consumption and CO2...
Montgomery Sisam Architects’ new affordable housing project, Hamilton Passive House Modular Housing, will significantly reduce energy consumption, achieved through a self-regulated climate and temperature control system, and a near complete reliance on solar power.
Construction has started on the Modernized Gatineau Energy Centre, a facility which will help the Canadian government reach its goal of reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40 per cent by 2025.
The Wii Gyemsiga Siwilaawksat student residence, by hcma architecture + design, has won the Canadian Wood Council Award,
The building envelope: A driver for energy retrofits
(04/04/2022)
Deep energy renovations of residential buildings are critical if cities want to tackle their climate emissions on a large scale.
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