Canadian condominium builder, Tridel, received several awards at the 2023 Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) Awards, including Green Builder of the Year for a record 14th time.
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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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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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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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Canadian developer Brivia Group has selected downtown Vancouver as the location for its 60-storey Passive House residential development.
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Metro Vancouver’s Zero Emissions Building Exchange has launched its Building to Electrification Coalition with Passive House Canada.
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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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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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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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