TEXT Max Amerongen
PHOTOS Courtesy Butterwick Projects
There’s a lane in Sundance Housing Co-op that provides a perfect “before” and “after” picture for…
Architects and planners must decarbonize the construction industry, and we have less than ten years to make real progress to stay within 1.5 degrees of global…
The City of Toronto and Perkins&Will have unveiled the design for one of Ontario and Toronto’s first net-zero operational carbon community centres, setting…
Canada is the fourth-largest oil producer in the world, with almost all of its crude oil headed for the United States.
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"There’s a robust net zero strategy, which is especially challenging in a building with an aquatic centre that requires continuous energy use to heat the…
A coalition of business and government groups announced 26 climate action initiatives at Cities, Regions and Built Environment Day at COP26.
The initiatives…
WorldGBC has announced an update to the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment (the Commitment), expanding its scope to recognise enhanced leadership action in…
The WorldGBC has released its annual Advancing Net Zero Status Report, which showcases examples of Green Building Councils, businesses and governments scaling…
As part of its continued commitment to sustainable practices, Stantec has pledged to reach carbon neutrality by 2022 as a first step in achieving net-zero…
Over the past year, DIALOG have been designing a prototype for a supertall zero-carbon hybrid timber tower; we’re calling it the Beacon of Hope. At 105 stories,…
Global fossil fuel emissions dropped by about seven per cent in 2020 compared with 2019. But a rebound is likely to occur when lockdowns ease up unless COVID-19…
Douglas Macdonald, University of Toronto
At the climate summit held in Paris in December 2015, the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed…
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and the Plenary Properties Gatineau (PPG) consortium have revealed the design of a second preservation centre in Gatineau,…
The World Green Building Council’s (WorldGBC) 10th annual World Green Building Week will focus on end-to-end carbon emissions created across the building and…