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Florence Nightingale was right: Fresh air = healthy buildings
Florence Nightingale was right: Fresh air = healthy buildings
Building owners should take advice from Florence Nightingale in their efforts to make their indoor spaces safe from COVID-19, says an international expert on fixing sick buildings. Nightingale advocated fresh air from open windows for her patients said Joseph Allen during BOMEX 2020.
Energy-efficiency advocates concerned about 2020 NBC
Two groups representing Canada’s leading edge of building energy-efficiency – Efficiency Canada (EC), based at Carleton University in Ottawa, and Passive House Canada (PHC) – are giving voice to their concerns about the direction of recent 2020 National Building Code sub-committee meetings.
Battery recycler, Li-Cycle’s ‘tsunami’ of opportunity
The co-founder of Li-Cycle Corp., Tim Johnston, is ending a virtual tour of his Kingston facility by showing off the product that emerges when he shreds, soaks and filters the lithium ion batteries from iPhones and vape pens to Teslas.
Why battery recycling is a global health hazard
• Yale 360
From African shantytowns to the backstreets of China’s cities, small-scale businesses that recycle the lead from auto batteries are proliferating. Experts say the pollution from these unregulated operations is a lethal threat – with children being the most vulnerable to poisoning.
Alberta, Ottawa fund new emissions-reduction programs
• Globe and Mail (Sub. required)
Alberta unveiled a suite of new greenhouse gas emission-reduction programs Monday, each targeted at resuscitating a flailing economy and reducing emissions across industries from oil and gas to forestry and agriculture.
Rules unveiled for $750-million emissions reduction fund
• Globe and Mail (Sub. required)
Oil and gas companies that use federal cash to help cut methane emissions from their operations won’t have to repay every penny if they eliminate the methane emissions entirely, according to new rules for the Federal $750-million emissions-reduction fund.
Pandemic aside, a record year for sustainable finance
• Advisor
Sustainable finance has had a record third quarter according to new data from Refinitiv. Globally, sustainable bond issuance totalled US$154.8 billion in the third quarter, up 13% from the second quarter and more than double the same period in 2019.
Green bond boom doesn’t need ECB support
Issuance of green bonds has grown more than 12% so far this year and exceeded the $1-trillion mark for the first time worldwide. The European Central Bank favouring of climate-friendly securities risks distortions in financial markets, says Governing Councillor Robert Holzmann.
Financing zero: The road to emission-free fleets
• GreenBiz
In recent years, electric vehicle (EV) adoption has accelerated in the world of personal cars. Now, as ambitious climate goals gain momentum and renewable energy prices drop, attention is turning towards scaling such systems for commercial transport.
AddÉnergie raises $53M to fund U.S. expansion
• Globe and Mail (Sub. required)
Canada’s largest maker and operator of electric-vehicle-charging stations, Quebec City-based AddÉnergie Technologies Inc., which entered the U.S. market in 2018, installed 180 public charging stations in L.A. and recently signed a deal with Cincinnati-based Electrada to build charging infrastructure in three states.
Melbourne’s first hydrogen station to open in 2021
• H2-View
Melbourne’s first hydrogen station is starting to take shape, with works on track to be completed in early 2021. Toyota’s Altona vehicle assembly line is being transformed into a hydrogen production centre equipped with a hydrogen electrolyser, commercial-grade hydrogen refuelling station.
National Grid Partners invests in AI to protect grid
National Grid Partners, the investment and innovation arm of National Grid, announced two new investments in data analytics startups that use artificial intelligence (AI) to protect critical infrastructure. NGP led both funding rounds with $6 million in combined investment.
Local decisions on roads, sprawl, climate crisis
OPINION: This week, councils in Vancouver and Calgary will meet to weigh what seem like local issues, but which in fact are much bigger. Vancouver councillors will consider a climate-change report that includes a call for transport pricing in and near the city core.
Recyled roofs, plastics eyed for Prairie paving
Ninety tons of asphalt roofing shingles torn off about four dozen houses around Winnipeg will be used in a new Manitoba recycling pilot program aimed at using the asphalt in paving tomorrow’s Prairie highways and industrial parks.
Rangeview breaks ground on garden-to-table community
Calgary-based Section23 Developments Ltd. unleashed heavy equipment earlier in October to prepare the site of the former Ollerenshaw Ranch. The agricultural heritage of the land will live on in Rangeview, designed as Calgary’s first garden-to-table community.
Montreal launches rehabilitation of contaminated land
The City of Montreal announced Friday the start of decontamination work on some four million square feet of land spread over nine municipal lots located in the borough of Rivière-des-Prairies – Pointe-aux-Trembles, in the Sector industrialist of Pointe-de-l’Île.
The dirt on rammed earth construction
Rammed earth is the descendant of an ancient construction technique that can be used to build walls for many kinds of buildings. It’s made by placing damp soil or earth in formwork and compressing it into a solid wall.
Rewilded farmland can save money − and the Earth
A consortium of scientists has worked out how to conserve life on the planet and absorb dramatic quantities of carbon that is driving potentially calamitous climate change with rewilded farmland, fields of crops and livestock returned to prairie and forest.
Building scientists petition WHO on airborne COVID
“Citizens of the World” have started a petition on Change.org, demanding the WHO “recognize the compelling scientific evidence SARS-CoV-2 spreads by aerosol transmission and urge the WHO to immediately develop and initiate clear recommendations to enable people to protect themselves.”
Time for ethical renaissance in engineering
Canada is an engineering powerhouse. Beyond designing, building and maintaining our vital infrastructure, engineering industries form the backbone of the country’s economy. How can the profession can evolve to meet the current moment of compounded health and environmental crises?
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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