In a significant development, communities in Nunavut are set to receive a boost with a joint investment exceeding $194 million from both federal and territorial governments.
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Government of Canada will provide $526,785 to a custom home builder in N.S. to support a project conducting front-end engineering design studies of deep energy retrofits for six municipally owned buildings in Sask., Ont., and N.S., to discover cost-effective pathways to reduced energy consumption through panelized retrofits.
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The Stack in Vancouver has become one of Canada’s largest commercial high-rise office towers to get a made-in-Canada Zero Carbon Building (ZCB) certification, for its innovative sustainability features.
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The Canadian Commission on Building and Fire Codes (CCBFC)invites code users, stakeholders, and the broader public to take part in the public review of the first set of proposed changes to the 2020 editions of Canada’s National Model Codes.
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Canadian markets top the inaugural International Green Building Adoption Index (IGBAI), a study by CBRE and Maastricht University in Netherlands. More than 50 per cent of office buildings in Vancouver and Toronto holds “green” certifications.
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The fundamental challenge of advanced sustainable design is not so much a technological issue, but rather a cultural one. The strategies, methods, and technology exist to make ultra-efficient buildings that can achieve 75 per cent less energy consumption than conventional buildings.
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Is a green building defined by what it looks like? Should it have various ‘sexy’ technologies like solar panels, green roofs, and straw bale insulation? Or does it need to have low off-gassing materials, plentiful daylighting, and native species landscaping?
Instead of defining a green facility by a checklist of technologies, one should define a building by its actual reduced environmental footprint. As the most significant direct impact of structures, energy use should be the most important way they are ultimately judged. Without significant, monitored energy savings, no facility should be called ‘green.’
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