Green Building

December 31, 2008

Massive Saanich shopping centre redevelopment goes green

The massive redevelopment of Saanich’s 47-year-old Town and Country Shopping Centre is easily the most significant construction project on southern Vancouver Island, says a spokesperson for the company behind the overhaul.

December 22, 2008

New Kwantlen Polytechnic University campus earns LEED Gold

Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Cloverdale campus, Canada’s newest high-tech facility for trades, technology and applied training programs, has achieved LEED Gold certification.

December 15, 2008

Green building rating systems could become more stringent, Lim says

Green building rating systems will continue to evolve and become even more stringent in their ratings, the vice president of energy and sustainability for real estate portfolio manager BLJC told contractors and project managers in Toronto recently.

December 3, 2008

Korky Koroluk: When designing green roofs, think ‘stormwater retention’

We’ve all heard by now of the benefits of green roofs — how they can save some of the energy that would otherwise go to heating and cooling, how they can be used to create park-like spaces for building staff, and how they can contribute greatly to stormwater retention and management.

December 3, 2008

MetroTower III aims to reach new heights for green building

Ivanhoe Cambridge Inc. has announced that the third tower at its Burnaby MetroTower Complex will carry the highest commercial green rating possible.

December 1, 2008

Not all ‘green’ buildings are healthy buildings, Sterling says

That new green building, which may have received a lot of positive publicity, might not actually be as healthy as it seems.

November 24, 2008

Alberta leads the charge toward solar energy innovation

Alberta is one of the sunniest provinces in Canada and has, therefore, more potential solar energy than the world’s leaders in solar energy implementation, Germany and Japan.

November 19, 2008

LEED Canada Initiative continues to evolve and change

The LEED Canada Initiative is evolving with the aim of eliminating 50 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions (2005 baseline) from Canadian buildings by 2015.

November 17, 2008

Three Canadian projects earn Holcim awards for sustainable construction

North Vancouver’s Outdoor School, designed by Vancouver firm Larry McFarland Architects Ltd., recently picked up an Acknowledgement prize at the North American Holcim Awards.

October 27, 2008

Sustainable design moves to Canada’s smaller cities and rural areas

Initially, the move to sustainable design in architecture was championed and pioneered in the nation’s urban areas, writes Charles Olfert, MRAIC, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s regional director for Saskatchewan/Manitoba.

April 16, 2007

Vancouver Island projects strive for LEED certification

One LEED project on southern Vancouver Island has belatedly received the highest certification from the Canada Green Building Council but another in downtown Victoria is having a financial hiccup in the early construction stage.

April 16, 2007

World Sustainable Building Conference showcases Canadian design

Canadian applications are invited for the prestigious Sustainable Building Challenge (SBC) which is to be held in Melbourne, Australia in September 2008.

April 16, 2007

Ten years to clean up Sydney Tar Ponds

It’s taken more than 100 years to create the toxic stew of the Tar Ponds in Sydney, N.S. The federal and Nova Scotia governments hope to have it cleaned up in 10, at a cost of $400 million.

April 16, 2007

Houston adopts new energy efficient plan

Speaking green is de rigeur. Making practical use of green technology especially as a small municipality remains less fashionable.