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May 19, 2008
Canada Green Building Council plans first-ever national summit
The Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) will put the focus on cutting building-source emissions of green house gases at its first-ever national summit this summer.
May 19, 2008
British Columbia “greens” its building code
On April 15, 2008, the minister responsible for housing, Rich Coleman, announced new Building Code requirements that will come into effect on September 5, 2008. Claiming to “green the B.C. Building Code,” these first steps are designed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions related to all construction.
May 14, 2008
New roofing systems offer builders more choices than ever, NRC expert says
New sustainable roofing systems and concepts are providing builders with more choices than ever, but a glut of information has blurred the distinction between different types of roofing, according to Dr. Ralph M. Paroli, director of the building envelope and structure program for the National Research Council Institute for Research in Construction.
May 14, 2008
Calgary’s Eighth Avenue Place towers earn Canada’s first LEED-CS pre-certification
An office tower development in downtown Calgary is the first high-rise office building in Canada to be pre-certified in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Core and Shell (LEED-CS) construction.
April 23, 2008
San Francisco leads green-building wave
San Francisco has set up a task force with the job of expanding green-building standards for major new private construction projects. Now a set of new rules will require projects to earn green points by introducing energy and water-saving measures. If they don’t, they may not get their building permits.
April 21, 2008
Dockside Green strives for LEED Platinum certification
Dockside Green will include three different neighbourhoods, about 1.3 million square feet of mixed use facilities and about 2,500 people in the 15-acre reclaimed brownfield site when it is finished. The development along Victoria’s waterfront is aiming to become North America’s first LEED Platinum-certified community.
April 16, 2008
Architects must encourage real progress on green building, not ‘greenwash’
Buildings are the biggest source of emissions and energy consumption in Canada. They play a major role in the environmentally unfriendly trends that project that energy consumption will increase by 37 per cent and greenhouses gases by 36 per cent over the next 20 years in North America alone.
March 24, 2008
GreenWorks supplies contractors, architects and designers with green building materials
If the green building movement is going to work, products that carry the concept into the marketplace need to become readily available to contractors, subcontractors, interior designers and architects looking for alternate choices. That’s the reason why Simon Fraser University-graduated environmental planners Alastair Moore and Peter McGee opened a wholesale-retail outlet, GreenWorks Building Supplies in Vancouver.
March 17, 2008
Waywell Development’s Radius project incorporates sustainable technology
Radius is a $165 million project that includes 111 condominiums in two buildings of seven and 14 storeys, a commercial section of 16,000 square feet, a private university campus for University Canada West, a 14-storey office tower and a child-care centre for 36 children.
February 20, 2008
Construction industry leaders learn about EcoDensity initiative
Brent Toderain needs the skills of a high-wire acrobat.
April 16, 2007
Vancouver Island projects strive for LEED certification
One LEED project on southern Vancouver Island has belatedly received the highest certification from the Canada Green Building Council but another in downtown Victoria is having a financial hiccup in the early construction stage.
April 16, 2007
World Sustainable Building Conference showcases Canadian design
Canadian applications are invited for the prestigious Sustainable Building Challenge (SBC) which is to be held in Melbourne, Australia in September 2008.
April 16, 2007
Ten years to clean up Sydney Tar Ponds
It’s taken more than 100 years to create the toxic stew of the Tar Ponds in Sydney, N.S. The federal and Nova Scotia governments hope to have it cleaned up in 10, at a cost of $400 million.
April 16, 2007
Houston adopts new energy efficient plan
Speaking green is de rigeur. Making practical use of green technology especially as a small municipality remains less fashionable.
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