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Health and wellness at evolv1 to be monitored by eleven-x
Health and wellness at evolv1 to be monitored by eleven-x
Evolv1, Canada’s first multi-tenant building to earn the Canada Green Building Council Zero Carbon Building – Design certification, is part of a new initiative to track the health and wellness relationship between buildings and people.
Nordic startup to make U.S. office air breathable again
• Forbes
720 Degrees´s cloud-based solution for indoor environmental quality monitoring is already being used in hundreds of facilities across Europe, counting GE Healthcare, IBM, CBRE or construction company YIT among its customers. The Helsinki-based company has seen significant success around Nordics and now eyes bigger markets.
Furnace-free home awarded for energy efficiency
Brookfield Residential has opened the doors to the first passive house built by a major Alberta builder. While it appears to be a typical home, at 2,500 sq. ft., with three bedrooms and two baths, it is anything but typical. It has no furnace and uses 90 percent less energy than the typical home.
Belgravia Square to utilizes geothermal technology
John Clarke says Niche Developments’ original goal wasn’t to build eco-friendly condominiums and apartments, but the Edmonton-based company’s president says marrying prefabricated concrete and structural steel to geothermal heating is the future for large, sustainable buildings.
Mass-timber, modular laneway homes fill a housing need
Prefabricated homes are seeing a resurgence, and this is also true in B.C.’s laneway home sector. Laneway homes are seeing a surge in popularity as various municipalities have embraced them as a way to densify single-family neighbourhoods.
Hines to build T3 Bayside, NA’s tallest timber office
Hines will construct a 10-storey mass timber office building called T3 Bayside as part of its Bayside Toronto development in the East Bayfront neighbourhood. “We believe that this will be the tallest timber office building in North America,” Hines Canada senior managing director Avi Tesciuba.
Edmonton Tower certified BOMA BEST Platinum
Katz Group Real Estate and Alberta Investment Management Corporation are pleased to announce Edmonton Tower has received BOMA BEST© (Building Owners and Managers Association of Canada) Platinum certification, recognizing the Tower’s excellence in operation, management, and sustainable performance.
Building energy consumption data remains a challenge
• IPE Real Estate – Sustainability
Real estate fund managers are feeling the heat when it comes to the energy efficiency of their real estate assets. They need to calculate carbon emissions and monitor their progress in cutting those emissions, but how do they obtain the necessary building-level energy consumption data?
Family-friendly, green condos being built in Montreal
Most new family-sized condos are in buildings that aren’t so family friendly. The units may have three or even four bedrooms, but they’re often not really designed with the needs of children in mind.
Why Sweden clears snow-covered walkways before roads
In Swedish cities, the approach to snow removal used to be pretty similar to the way it is in the United States. First cities would plow major highways. Then they would plow big surface streets, especially near large employers. Last, they would clear walkways and bike paths.
N.S. law to force new construction back from coastlines
• CBC
New legislation being introduced in Nova Scotia will force property owners to set new buildings back farther from the province’s vulnerable shorelines. There are currently about 60,000 properties hugging Nova Scotia’s 13,000 km. of coastline and about 70 per cent of the population lives within 20 km. of the coast.
N.B. utility considers extracting hydrogen from seawater
New Brunswick’s Crown-owned power utility is partnering with a Florida-based company to develop power plants that would use hydrogen extracted from seawater as their fuel.
Feds support Sault St. Marie smart grid project
The federal government has announced an $11.8-million allocation for PUC Distribution Inc.’s smart grid project in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. PUC, the local power distribution utility, has formed a private-public financing partnership to improve the Sault Ste. Marie electric network system.
Canada’s largest solar farm one step closer in Alberta
Rocky View County passed land-use changes this week allowing for development firm RealPart Canada to move ahead with plans to construct a solar farm with 700,000 panels on 386 hectares of rural property near Indus, just southeast of Calgary.
Alberta targets 30% of power grid as renewable by 2030
• Calgary Herald • CTV
In an effort to provide greater investment certainty, the Alberta government has released more details about its plan to have renewable power make up 30 per cent of electricity generation in Alberta by 2030.
Ways that companies can make more responsible decisions
• Forbes
Developers and property owners must understand their options when it comes to eco-friendly construction and utility usage. Seven members of Forbes Real Estate Council share ways to help you make responsible decisions for both your company and the environment, as well as touch on techniques you can try.
Investors shifting to greener portfolios
A growing number of investors concerned about the economic costs of climate change are shifting to greener portfolios in an effort to do their part for the environment and avoid potential losses down the road.
Canada needs clearer rules on disclosing climate risk
• Globe and Mail (Subscription required)
Canada will need to adopt tougher rules for companies to disclose the risk and opportunities they face as the world transitions to a lower-carbon economy, two members of a federal advisory panel said Wednesday.
Kingston latest Canadian city to declare climate emergency
• CTV
Kingston, Ont., has become the latest Canadian municipality to declare climate change as an emergency in need of local government attention. The move comes after similar motions were passed in Vancouver and Halifax in January.
Evidence global warming is man-made hits ‘gold standard’
Evidence for man-made global warming has reached a “gold standard” level of certainty, adding pressure for cuts in greenhouse gases to limit rising temperatures, scientists said on Monday.
Industry Events
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Greenbuild 2024: Built to Scale
Nov 12 2024
to Nov 15 2024
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA
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Sustainable Finance Forum 2024
Nov 28 2024
to Nov 29 2024
Shaw Centre, Ottawa
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