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June 30, 2008

Diamond + Schmitt incorporate water stewardship into Cambridge city hall design

When Diamond + Schmitt Architects set out to design Cambridge’s new green city hall, development of a comprehensive water management strategy was a key agenda item.

June 26, 2008

Durham Consolidated Courthouse project team targets LEED Silver

The Durham Consolidated Courthouse project, currently under construction in Oshawa, will be the government of Ontario’s first building to receive the Canada Green Building Council's (CaGBC's) LEED Silver certification for incorporating environmentally-sustainable construction practices and energy-efficient design.

June 23, 2008

Culture of Canada’s design, construction industries turns green, too

Judging from comments at the recent Shifting Into the Mainstream conference in Toronto, the design and construction industries are practising what they preach about sustainable building and care for the environment in general.

June 20, 2008

Construction begins on Evergreen, Canada’s largest low-rise, green community

Evergreen is $100-million joint development by Toronto-based Monarch Corporation and the Toronto Economic Development Corporation (TEDCO).

June 18, 2008

CaGBC pilot project proves value of energy-measurement tools for commercial buildings

A recently completed Canada Green Building Council pilot project on the management and operation of commercial buildings proved to be a valuable experience for the owners and managers of those buildings, delegates to the Shifting into the Mainstream onference in Toronto were told.

June 17, 2008

Design, construction industries prove quick to adapt to climate change

With their embrace of green principles, the design and construction industries have proven to be more adaptable in responding to climate change than governments and auto manufacturers, says Canada Green Building Council chair Peter Busby.

June 12, 2008

Toronto’s green development policies earn passing grade

Toronto’s green development standard is slowly taking flight, construction advocates and city officials say.

May 20, 2008

Calgary towers earn Canada’s first LEED-CS pre-certification

An office tower development in downtown Calgary is the first high-rise office building in Canada to be pre-certified in the LEED system for Core and Shell (LEED-CS) construction.

April 11, 2008

San Francisco leads green-building wave

In 2004, San Franciseo began requiring that all municipal buildings in the city meet — at minimum — LEED Silver requirements. About a year later, the city introduced a system for fast-tracking building permits for private development projects that meet LEED Gold or Platinum standards. Then, this time last year, the city took the next step: a task force with the job of expanding green building standards for major new private construction projects.

April 9, 2008

Architects must encourage real progress on green building, not ‘greenwash’

Buildings are the biggest source of emissions and energy consumption in Canada. They play a major role in the environmentally unfriendly trends that project that energy consumption will increase by 37 per cent and greenhouses gases by 36 per cent over the next 20 years in North America alone.

May 18, 2007

York University’s new building features diverse elements of green building

York University’s new computer science building in Toronto features many green elements of design and construction.

May 18, 2007

Green walls, roof gardens are key elements in St. Gabriel’s Church design

Spiritual beliefs and a concern for the environment are mutually compatible goals for members of St. Gabriel’s Roman Catholic Passionist Church in Toronto.

May 18, 2007

International building challenge seeks Canadian submissions

Canadian applications are invited for the prestigious Sustainable Building Challenge (SBC) which is to be held in Melbourne, Australia in September 2008.

May 18, 2007

Ontario municipalities are all action when it comes to green building

Some say it’s a trend; others say it’s too soon to tell. But one thing’s for sure: Building green is a principle that’s catching on like wildfire in Ontario municipalities west of Toronto.

May 18, 2007

Green building project highlights

Highlights on projects that have an element of green building to them.

May 18, 2007

Ontario hospitals seek long-term cogeneration project benefits

Although co-generation is a concept which has been around for some time, financial implications of implementing such a system may have hampered popularity.

May 18, 2007

Borealis site’s green elements amaze tourists

A massive tourist destination planned for Sault Ste. Marie will have more attractions than meets the eye when it is completed. Unique architectural and building structures will make the building itself a marvel.

May 18, 2007

Jain & Associates tackles only environmentally-friendly projects

Virtually every contract Jain & Associates Ltd. takes on these days has a green element. The extent to which the engineering consultant’s work is enviro-friendly depends on a project’s owner, but straight-up conventional electrical/mechanical jobs are a thing of the past for the Mississauga-based firm.

May 18, 2007

Algonquin College introduces Green Architecture program

As interest in green building technology grows, so to does the demand for qualified personnel to design healthy facilities and correct the shortcomings of existing ones.

May 18, 2007

Green Globes tool provides environmental ratings

While it doesn’t quite enjoy the instant brand recognition LEED commands, a green building environmental rating system created in Canada is increasingly being used in this country, the United States and the United Kingdom.

May 18, 2007

Design of Kingston arenas meet LEED standards

Developers in Kingston are learning new ways to build green as they apply national environmentally-friendly building standards to the design and construction of two massive arena projects.