Tag Archives: low-carbon

Industry giants partner to repurpose Alberta’s waste product into low-carbon concrete

January 17, 2023 arslan_ahmed

Sustainable construction materials company, Lafarge Canada (Lafarge), and power company, TransAlta Corporation (TransAlta), have entered an agreement to advance low-carbon concrete projects in Alberta, replacing cement as a concrete constituent with a waste product, fly ash.

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Concrete’s cobra effect: unintended results of embodied carbon reduction

January 9, 2023 arslan_ahmed

Recent efforts in North America to reduce embodied carbon in concrete are similar to British solutions to eradicate cobras in colonial India. Simple solutions often create bigger problems than the complex ones they were trying to solve.

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Industry and gov’t collab aims to stamp out cement and concrete emissions

November 16, 2022 arslan_ahmed

A public/private partnership has launched a program to eliminate more than 15 million tonnes (15 billion kg) of greenhouse gas emissions from cement and concrete production in Canada by 2030, followed by ongoing reductions of over 4 million tonnes (4 billion kg) annually.

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Vancouver skyscraper design looks to set the bar for energy efficiency

May 10, 2022 brittney_cutler_2

Canadian developer Brivia Group has selected downtown Vancouver as the location for its 60-storey Passive House residential development.

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Passive House Canada joins Metro Vancouver building coalition

January 4, 2022 brittney_cutler_2

Metro Vancouver’s Zero Emissions Building Exchange has launched its Building to Electrification Coalition with Passive House Canada.

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Toronto gains one of province’s first mass-timber institutional buildings

December 14, 2021 brittney_cutler_2

George Brown College will transform Toronto’s skyline with construction of one of the first mass-timber institutional buildings in Ontario.

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CSC Regina delves into low-carbon energy

April 13, 2021 sadia_badhon

The Regina Chapter will be presenting on “Low-carbon Energy Systems and Strategies in Saskatchewan and Western Canada” on Thursday, April 22, at 12 p.m.

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Design team selected for much-anticipated tall wood building in Toronto

April 3, 2018 nithya_caleb

George Brown College in Toronto has selected Moriyama & Teshima Architects + Acton Ostry Architects to design The Arbour, its tall wood campus building on the city’s waterfront. This moves the project one step closer to construction of one of Ontario’s first tall wood, low-carbon institutional building.

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