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VCIB and City of Ottawa partner to help homeowners reduce emissions
Vancity Community Investment Bank (VCIB) is supporting Ottawa’s Better Homes Ottawa Loan Program, which allows residents to borrow funds for home energy improvement projects, with an investment of $33.9 million.
The Better Homes Ottawa…
Certified Rental Building Program now national in scope
The Certified Rental Building Program (CRBP) is now a national brand, known as the Canadian Certified Rental Building Program.Launched in 2008 by the Federation of Rental-housing Providers of Ontario (FRPO), the Certified Rental…
Lemay’s New SOPREMA Plant
Leveraging architecture, interior design, landscape, and engineering to make a positive impact on climate change, SOPREMA’s new plant in Woodstock, Ontario marks a new chapter for eco-conscious manufacturing.Designed by the…
Canada Infrastructure Bank and Avenue Living Address Multi-Family Residential Retrofits
The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) and Avenue Living Asset Management (Avenue Living) announced a commitment of $150 million towards sustainable retrofit projects in low-density residential buildings across Western Canada.Under the…
How the slow-burning housing crisis is driving hunger in Canada
Produce vegetables are displayed for sale at a grocery store in Aylmer, Que. in May 2022.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Charlotte Spring, Wilfrid Laurier University and Audrey Tung, University of VictoriaCanada’s housing crisis…
CAGBC introduces the latest Zero Carbon Building – Design Standard
The Canada Green Building Council (CAGBC) introduced the latest version of its Zero Carbon Building – Design Standard, which prioritizes reductions in carbon emissions and embodied carbon.“These updates to the ZCB-Design Standard…
Canadian Wood Council mass timber fire test performed as expected
The Canadian Wood Council hosted a full-scale fire test at the Canadian Explosives Research Lab in Ottawa, to observe the behaviour of mass timber construction exposed to fire.To date, the majority of exposed mass timber compartment…
CIB announces investment partnership with Efficiency Capital
The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) announced its commitment to invest up to $50 millions into Efficiency Capital’s (EC) $62.5M asset management platform to develop private sector energy efficiency and low-carbon retrofits.The CIB’s…
Canadian Wood Council conducts largest mass timber fire test
The Canadian Wood Council has partnered with federal and provincial governments to conduct a series of five separate fire research burns on a full-scale mass timber structure in Ottawa.The largest burn, happening on a 2-storey, 3,700…
Vancouver sets ambitious building emissions example for Canadian municipalities
CANADA'S NATIONAL OBSERVER
Vancouver city council passed a motion last week requiring all large commercial buildings to use only renewable energy by 2040 and setting limits on carbon pollution for existing buildings, making it the first…