Scotia Plaza’s 40 King St. W. building in Toronto has earned a Zero Carbon Building – Performance v2 Certification from the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC). It is the largest certified Zero Carbon Building...
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A proposed 87-storey mixed-use tower designed by Swiss-based architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron and Toronto-based Quadrangle, will become the tallest in Canada once complete.
Vancouver Fire Hall No. 17 has become the first fire hall in the country to earn the Canada Green Building Council’s (CaGBC’s) Zero Carbon Building (ZCB) design certification, and the first project to be...
Passive House goes to work
(05/27/2020)
The benefits of high-performance buildings are being recognized by owners, designers, and policy-makers alike. This led to an uptake in Passive House (PH) design, as it is widely recognized as the most rigorous energy-based...
The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP, an architecture, planning, urban, and interior design firm, has earned the Living Building Challenge Petal Certification for its renovated San Diego studio.
The Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) has released “Ready, set, grow: How the green building industry can re-ignite Canada’s economy” to offer recommendations for Canada’s post-COVID-19 economic recovery.
Ground has broken on University of Calgary’s Mathison Hall, a new home for the Haskayne School of Business, designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects.
Following an international design competition, Zaha Hadid Architects was selected to build the new Shanghai headquarters of the China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP).
The Vancouver and Calgary studios of Perkins and Will announced they will immediately begin offering clients a Carbon Impact Statement with every project at no additional cost to help identify carbon reduction measures.
Among the first to be dual certified, evolv1 in Waterloo, Ont., achieves zero carbon performance certification from the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC).
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