A return to technically competent specifications is required: specifications that are firmly rooted in performance, with product listings that illustrate the…
Entitled "Where do you Stand?" The 2011 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture conference challenged architectural educators to adapt not only to the…
The new Business Incentive Program (BIP) from Toronto Hydro-Electric System promotes electricity-saving renovations to buildings totalling 25,000 square feet or…
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada actively seeks new and better ways to serve its members, providing practical, tangible benefits to them. To this…
An overview of international and Canadian efforts to use photovoltaic solar energy, derived from UBC's recent workshop on Building Integrated Photovoltaics…
In his 1927 book, The Public and its Problems, American pragmatist philosopher John Dewey remarked that "a class of experts is inevitably so removed from common…