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GreenSaver launches residential new construction program campaign at the Green Building Festival
The independent non-profit corporation GreenSaver used the Green Building Festival as the perfect platform to launch a new campaign to improve the energy efficiency of new homes in Ontario. Called the Residential New Construction (RNC)…
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Finding green in brown
Redeveloping contaminated sites can take years. In the interim, area residents often live with empty lots surrounded by chain-link fences, and choked with garbage and weeds. But at Dunbar and 40th St. in Vancouver, what could have been an…
Get going on getting going
The signs are clear: Canadians everywhere are gravitating to the urbanization model. It’s not only extending into once-suburban swaths around Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and Montréal, but also smaller cities across the…
Two Canadian projects win Green Roof and Wall Awards of Excellence.
In the lead-up to 11th Annual Green Roof and Wall Conference on October 23 to 26 in San Francisco, Green Roofs for Healthy Cities have announced the winners of the 2013 Green Roof and Wall Awards of Excellence. Among them was the green roof…
CaGBC launches online LEED Project Profiles database
During World Green Building Week (which ran from September 16-20), the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) launched an online LEED Project Profiles database to “celebrate Canada’s achievements in green buildings.”…
Pickering GO Station passenger building secures LEED Gold
GO Transit's Pickering station building has attained LEED Canada Gold certification for New Construction and Major Renovations, a first for a passenger station building in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. The building was…
New online course on commercial building energy audits offered by ASHRAE
Given the tremendous growth in emphasis on energy efficiency in existing buildings, private markets are looking for cost-effective investments to make in buildings. Energy efficiency represents an excellent opportunity to provide great…
TD Centre achieves LEED Gold — again
The Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower at 66 Wellington Street West in Toronto designed in 1960 by Mies van der Rohe has achieved LEED Gold Certification under the Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance program, and joins an…
IFC and World Green Building Council to spread the gospel of green building globally
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) announced that they will collaborate to rapidly scale up the construction of green buildings in emerging markets. To do this, the WorldGBC has agreed to…
Enermodal hits 200th LEED certification
The revitalization of Oxford Properties Group’s 111 Richmond St W office tower in order to achieve LEED Core and Shell Gold certification officially marks the 200th LEED certification for Enermodal Engineering, an impressive milestone…