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CAGBC introduces the latest Zero Carbon Building – Design Standard

Building Jun 27, 2022

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…

Building Design

The cheaper we build our buildings, the more they cost after an earthquake, wildfire or tornado

Keith Porter, Western University Jun 17, 2022

Several people were injured and homes destroyed after tornadoes touched down in Barrie, Ont., in July 2021. (Duckdave/Wikimedia), CC BY-SA Keith Porter, Western UniversityA tornado cut a 270-kilometre path through Kentucky in…

Urban Planning

Small green spaces can help keep cities cool during heat waves

Lingshan Li, Concordia University Jun 13, 2022

Concrete and asphalt roads, and other built materials readily absorb, store and release heat, raising city temperatures, a phenomenon called the urban heat island. (Pixabay) Lingshan Li, Concordia UniversityA recent World…

Building

Vancity launches Retrofit Program for Non-Profit Affordable Housing Providers

Building Jun 10, 2022

Vancity, Vancouver’s savings credit union, has launched its new Non-Profit Housing Retrofit Program to support climate-ready affordable housing.The program, which is available to hundreds of non-profit housing providers across BC,…

Sustainability

Vancouver sets ambitious building emissions example for Canadian municipalities

Natasha Bulowski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter May 25, 2022

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…

Sustainability

Canada faces huge physical costs from climate change, making net zero a great investment

Neal Willcott, Sean Cleary May 20, 2022

Ontario fire rangers carry sandbags to fortify a wall holding back floodwaters in Pembroke, Ont., in May 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang Neal Willcott, Queen's University, Ontario and Sean Cleary, Queen's University, OntarioThere…

Building

Canada faces important choices to confront disaster risks: CCA report

Building Jan 24, 2022

According to a new panel report from the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA), bridging disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation practices is crucial to reducing exposure and vulnerability to disasters.The report suggests that…

Sustainability

FAO releases reports on the costs of climate change impacts in Ontario

Building Jan 13, 2022

The Financial Accountability Office of Ontario (FAO) released its Costing Climate Change Impacts to Public Infrastructure (CIPI): Buildings report. The study assesses the financial impacts of three climate hazards: extreme rainfall, extreme…

Building

FAO releases reports on the costs of climate change impacts on public infrastructure

Building Dec 10, 2021

The Financial Accountability Office of Ontario (FAO) released its Costing Climate Change Impacts to Public Infrastructure (CIPI): Buildings report– one of three reports published by the FAO.The CIPI buildings report assesses the…

Building

Why are homes still being built along rivers? Flooded residents disagree on the solution

Timothy J. Haney, Mount Royal University Dec 1, 2021

Members of the RCMP return from a boat patrol of a flooded neighbourhood in High River, Alta., on July 4, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh Timothy J. Haney, Mount Royal UniversityLike many residents living near Calgary’s…

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