Energy & the Environment

Circles painted on the grass in San Francisco’s Dolores Park encourage social distancing and help prevent the spread of coronavirus. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) Deena Shaffer, Ryerson University When the long-awaited warm sunny weather…

The speed and means of the coronavirus crisis have taken the world by surprise. In just 3 months, the outbreak has forced countries and economies to shut down, putting millions into isolation. At the time of this writing, the pandemic had…

Do you remember where you were when the ice storm hit in 2013? If you weren’t here, imagine waking up to a city coated in ice. The tree branches were hauntingly beautiful, shimmering while making an unnerving creaking sound. We’d woken up…

The Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) and five leading commercial real estate firms are calling on federal and provincial governments to implement consistent building data disclosure regulations and requirements. It may seem like an…

Public awareness of the global climate crisis is increasing rapidly, and so is Net-Zero Passive House building in residential and commercial construction. Now is the perfect time for builders to specialize in this rapidly growing market…

Wood construction is enjoying a revival from coast to coast. In Toronto, Sidewalk Labs is proposing a collection of mass timber buildings with the tallest one reaching 30-storeys. On the other side of the country, the University of British…

A bus got caught in a sinkhole in downtown Pittsburgh on Oct. 28, 2019. (Darrell Sapp/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP) Roads, buildings and industrial facilities rely on the integrity of the ground they’re built upon. But when soils shift…