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Innovation

WZMH Architects’ Innovation Lab designing the world’s first digitally enabled building

Building Mar 18, 2022

One of the architectural sector’s biggest challenges has been keeping up with the pace of growth, and actually implementing cutting edge thinking and technology into design build processes. By investing in a dedicated innovation lab where…

Construction

Casting Concrete in a New Light

K.W. Grafton Jan 26, 2022

Concrete has been around for a long time.The earliest concrete-like structures were built by the Nabatean people circa 6,500 BC, in what is now Syria and Jordan. They were concerned with the “dryness” of the mixture — what we now refer…

Urban Planning

Civic Commons Catalyst proposes strategic interventions for downtown Calgary

Building Dec 1, 2021

The Civic Commons Catalyst, a transdisciplinary research partnership under the Center for Civilization between the University of Calgary’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape (SAPL), the School of Public Policy (SPP), Evergreen,…

Building

Canada needs a mission-based approach to decarbonize buildings, says Efficiency Canada

Building Jun 25, 2021

There is no pathway to achieving Canada’s greenhouse gas reduction commitments that does not include retrofitting Canada’s millions of residential and commercial buildings.Yet, at the current pace it will take 142 years to retrofit…

Construction

3D printed home in Dutch city expands housing options

The Associated Press Apr 30, 2021

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands – Elize Lutz and Harrie Dekkers' new home is a 94-square meter (1,011-square foot) two-bedroom bungalow that resembles a boulder with windows.The curving lines of its gray concrete walls look and feel natural. But…

Construction

Pomerleau and Factry create a laboratory dedicated to construction

Building Apr 8, 2021

Pomerleau is partnering with Factry, Canada's first training centre that specializes in developing creative skills, to create the Pomerleau aXLab: a lab dedicated to integrating innovative technology to the construction industry."With…

Building Design

Smart City Learning: how surveillance can help build safer, smarter schools

Keith D'Sa Oct 15, 2020

From superbugs to lootings and aggressive behaviours, building within a world of ever-evolving security threats requires smarter solutions, especially when it’s something as important as our schools. You may already have heard of the term…

Urban Planning

Innovation districts like Melbourne’s could help chart our course out of crisis

Irene Håkansson and Kathryn Davidson, University of Melbourne Sep 9, 2020

ShutterstockIn the face of the global health and climate crises, we look at our cities both anxiously and hopefully. We deviate from our normal patterns of behaviour to avoid close physical contact and suffer associated emotional and…

Urban Planning

Pandemic lessons: Reliable internet is no longer a luxury – it’s a right

Simon O’Byrne and Pascal Texier May 14, 2020

Making broadband access a reality – particularly in remote locations – requires bringing interdisciplinary expertise to bear.

Building

CanBIM Announces 5th Annual Innovation Spotlight Awards Winners

Building Oct 10, 2019

The Canada BIM Council (CanBIM) announced the winners for the 2019 Innovation Spotlight Awards as part of the CanBIM Toronto Regional Session: Technology Built Innovation V: Addressing the Affordable Housing Crisis Through Digital…

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