The Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund is investing $996,000 into the Alternative Construction Technologies Hub located in the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) to quicken the development of new manufacturing and construction processes and materials. The Alternative Construction Technologies Hub […]
The recently released Canada Green Buildings Strategy aims to help the country decarbonize the building sector, with a massive push to upgrade and retrofit over 16 million houses and over 500,000 commercial, industrial and institutional buildings. The strategy outlines key
The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) just finalized a financial agreement that sees it committing $100 million in funding to GDI Integrated Facility Services to be invested in a variety of sustainable energy retrofits in aging and old buildings across Canada.
The Government of Canada is set to launch discussions in early January 2024 to start an innovative housing design catalogue initiative to help tackle the country’s housing shortage. According to recent research, nearly 17% of Canadians are living in homes
The Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) has unveiled a new version of its Zero Carbon Building – Design Standard. ZCB-Design v3 evaluates a building’s emissions across all phases of its lifecycle and awards certification to projects that model a zero-carbon
The 2022 federal budget came down on April 7th, with a focus on addressing housing affordability, as well as climate change. To help address the housing crisis, the Liberals plan to double new housing construction in the next decade, but
This January, Built Green Canada announced the launch of a new certification program for new, single-family homes: Net Zero Energy+. Net Zero Energy+, an extension of Built Green Canada’s Single Family program, offers builders and homeowners a label that certifies
River District Energy and Metro Vancouver have reached an agreement that will make the River District first in line to take advantage of Metro Vancouver’s planned waste-to-energy heat recovery facility. Under the agreement, River District Energy will purchase up to
Two Ontario colleges are breaking ground on significant mass timber projects that will heighten the visibility of the sustainable building method in the province. Mass timber is a type of construction that utilizes large dimensional timber, as well as engineered
The 2021 World Green Building Trends Study recently surveyed 1,207 industry professionals to identify current and upcoming trends in the green building sector. The report, issued by the Dodge Construction Network in partnership with the World Green Building Council, offers
