OAA Reviewing Ontario’s New Housing Legislation
According to a release from the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA), housing affordability remains one of the biggest challenges in the province, and the…
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Implementing Carbon Budgets in New and Existing Buildings
Over the last two decades, the building industry has been developing new ways of decreasing energy use and related carbon emissions in new buildings – be it…
Enhancing the city’s role as a carbon sink: the San Francisco experience
What is a "carbon sink," and how can it help us fight climate change? Carbon sinks act like sponges that soak up more carbon from the atmosphere than they…
What will it take to go beyond net-zero?
The OAA Conference returned in person for the first time in two years, kicking off Wednesday, May 11th with a keynote panel discussing this year’s theme:…
WorldGBC launches post-disaster toolkit
The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) launched the Sustainable Reconstruction & Recovery Framework — a “post-disaster toolkit” with the European Bank…
44 businesses sign WorldGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment
A coalition of business and government groups announced 26 climate action initiatives at Cities, Regions and Built Environment Day at COP26.
The initiatives…
Green business leaders call for industry action on buildings and infrastructure
The WorldGBC has published a new report, with the support of Dar Group and its member firms — Integral Group, T.Y. Lin, Perkins&Will and Currie & Brown…
RAIC Congress on Architecture to Focus on Climate Change
The inaugural RAIC Congress on Architecture will take place virtually on October 4th, coinciding with World Architecture Day. Hosted online through Zoom,…
WorldGBC releases new requirements for the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment
WorldGBC has announced an update to the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment (the Commitment), expanding its scope to recognise enhanced leadership action in…
New Coalition spotlights the built environment’s potential in accelerating…
A coalition led by C40, the Global Alliance for Building and Construction (GlobalABC), The Resilience Shift, World Business Council for Sustainable Development…