sustainability

The Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) released the results of its Disclosure Challenge, an initiative designed to champion the importance of energy benchmarking and data transparency in the Canadian commercial real estate market.…

The 2019 UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) newly released Emissions Gap Report reveals that almost 1,200 jurisdictions and local governments in 23 countries had declared a state of climate emergency by November, says international policy…

The Canada Green Building Council announced ten projects have certified under its Zero Carbon Building (ZCB) Standard. These projects include new and existing offices, schools and warehouses, each demonstrating that buildings of all types…

FortisBC released emissions and energy use data showing that simple energy efficiency upgrades in older apartment buildings have the potential to reduce carbon emissions in the province by about 200,000 tonnes annually, or the…

Three parties have responded to questions from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) about sustainability, living conditions in Indigenous communities, federal procurement, and a national architecture policy for Canada.The…

W.D. Ferris Elementary School in Richmond, BC is this year’s Canada Green Building Council’s (CaGBC) Greenest School in Canada competition winner. The school will receive a $2,000 cash award to put toward a new or ongoing sustainability…

As part of the 10th annual World Green Building Week, the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) has issued a new vision to fully decarbonize the building sector by eliminating both operational and embodied carbon emissions.According…

On World Architecture Day, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) is calling on architects to lead in the fight against climate change and bring discussion of the built environment to the federal election.In response to the…