Already achieving Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification, the Earth Rangers Centre for Sustainable Technology (ERC) set its sights on earning an even tougher goal: LEED Platinum.
Tag: Ontario
When the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC)—home to events like Construct Canada and the CSC Toronto Chapter’s No Frills Tradeshow—decided to renovate its South Building, it sought replacement ceiling panels that offered both a...
Built in the 1970s, the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre (WGSC) has been the hub of recreation and leisure activity in the Brantford community for over 35 years, offering visitors and residents year-round access to...
To accommodate the transportation needs of Toronto’s increasing population, Metrolinx—Ontario’s crown agency responsible for integrative transportation planning in the region—decided to raise Strachan Avenue by almost 2 m (6.5 ft), allowing it to pass...
Later this year, staff and inmates from the aging Windsor Jail will be relocated to the newly constructed, and more environmentally sustainable, South West Detention Centre (SWDC).
Construction set to begin on new Toronto area mall
(04/08/2014)
An up-and-coming enclosed retail/residential development project in Markham, Ont., is set to become one of the largest retail centres in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), boasting the largest geothermal system of its kind in...
Myriad of innovative security technologies were employed in the newly constructed Forensic Services and Coroner’s Complex (FSCC) in Toronto.
Award-winning Canadian tilt-up
(03/23/2014)
Canadian firms have been using tilt-up concrete for creative applications for many years, helping to push the construction method into new territory. Familiar as a building method for commercial and industrial facilities, tilt-up is...
Harnessing the all-in-one aspects of tilt-up
(03/13/2014)
Constructing buildings requires the skills and knowledge to meet the demands of speed of construction, energy efficiency, resiliency to environmental conditions, cost efficiency, and long-term durability. The tilt-up concrete method, which speaks to all...
École Secondaire Jeunes Sans Frontières, a French-language high school in Brampton, Ont., has become the first secondary school in Ontario to achieve Canada Green Building Council’s (CaGBC’s) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)...
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