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Climate Changed: How homebuilders and residents are adapting to a warming world

Brenna Owen – THE CANADIAN PRESS Nov 8, 2022

VANCOUVER – The two-storey family home with a classic design and wooden cladding blends in with its neighbours, but its thick, insulated walls, airtightness, solar panels, heat pump and highly efficient windows make it a home built for a…

Construction

Billions needed to prepare buildings for climate change

Jennifer Henderson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Jul 26, 2022

ALBERT GAZETTE Changing buildings to make them more weather resistant will save money and lives in the long run, says one expert. In the wake of another summer of extreme weather events, including another fire raging near Lytton B.C.…

Construction

City steps to national forefront of embodied carbon reduction research

Timothy Schafer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Jun 13, 2022

THE NELSON DAILY With the release of a new report the city has become one of the leading municipalities in the nation when it comes to addressing embodied carbon in the building of residential homes. People are tuning into the…

Building

U.S. moves to double tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber imports

Dan Healing – THE CANADIAN PRESS May 25, 2021

CALGARY – A move by the U.S. Commerce Department to increase preliminary tariffs on softwood lumber imports from Canada, if finalized, will raise producer costs and cut into their profits but is unlikely to affect prices to consumers of…

Construction

Canada has new ways to pressure Washington over softwood lumber duties: ambassador

Brenna Owen – THE CANADIAN PRESS Apr 9, 2021

VANCOUVER – Canadian officials have new leverage as they urge Washington to negotiate a solution to the long-standing dispute over U.S. duties on softwood lumber, Canada's ambassador to the United States said Thursday. Kirsten…

Building

Benchmark lumber prices jump to a record US$1,000 despite slowdown in sales volumes

Dan Healing – THE CANADIAN PRESS Feb 18, 2021

CALGARY – Homebuyers and renovators hoping for a mid-winter price slump are instead being greeted with new all-time record high prices for lumber and oriented strandboard (OSB) building panels. Western SPF (spruce, pine, fir) lumber …

Real Estate

Annual pace of inflation climbs to 1.0 per cent in November, Statistics Canada says

Jordan Press – THE CANADIAN PRESS Dec 17, 2020

OTTAWA – The country's annual inflation rate in November rose to its fastest pace since the start of the pandemic, driven by a rise in prices for homes, rent and goods around the house. Statistics Canada said Wednesday the 1.0 per cent…

Sustainability

LafargeHolcim Signs Net Zero Pledge with Science-Based Targets

Building Sep 24, 2020

LafargeHolcim joins the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) "Business Ambition for 1.5°C" as the first global building materials company to sign the pledge with intermediate targets for 2030. In its 2030 goals, LafargeHolcim is…

Awards

EIFS Council of Canada opens architectural design awards submissions

Building Nov 27, 2018

The EIFS Council of Canada officially launched its 2018‐2019 Architectural Design Awards Program to honour design professionals and firms which incorporate EIFS products into innovative and creative built projects. Grand Prize winners from…

Building

Toronto’s Enwave Deep Lake thermal energy system expanding west

Building Feb 13, 2018

Allied Properties REIT , Enwave Energy Corporation, and RioCan REIT are joining forces to extend Enwave's existing Deep Lake Water Cooling and hot water distribution networks by building a new energy storage facility housed at The Well, a…