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Case Studies
A Task of Olympic Proportions
Millennium Water is the largest green development project in British Columbia, covering nine city blocks in the South East False Creek in Vancouver. The City of Vancouver required 50 per cent of the site (approximately 2 hectares) to be green. It was first constructed as the Athletes’ Village for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. After the Games, the eight residential buildings on the waterfront were transformed into Vancouver’s landmark urban village.
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Contractor contributions to the LEED building blocks
The Canadian construction industry is booming with green buildings and general contractors have significantly contributed to this trend with their greener construction strategies. The intent of this article is to present a general contractor’s perspective and highlight how, besides their traditional responsibilities, they participate and enhance their collaboration with the design team through tracking and management tools.
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RBC WaterPark Place to be First LEED Platinum Office in Toronto
Oxford Properties recently announced design plans to achieve LEED Platinum Core and Shell Certification for the new 930,000-square-foot office development, RBC WaterPark Place, in downtown Toronto. This will be Toronto’s first LEED Platinum office tower.
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USGBC Announces LEED 2012 Changes
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) recently announced it will delay the ballot on LEED 2012 until June 1, 2013, in response to concerns raised by members, stakeholders and LEED users, and in an effort to provide marketplace a view of the full LEED program, now called LEED v4, before the ballot.
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Overcoming concrete construction obstacles with induction hardened piping
The old axiom about how a chain is only as strong as its weakest link is particularly appropriate when constructing skyscrapers, which require pumping hundreds of tons of concrete through a pipeline system that begins at the hopper of a concrete pump located at grade level and reaching up to the highest floors.
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Green Engineering
Engineering the Green Movement
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Case Study: Retrofit program helps Toronto’s Solid Waste Management Services save
When the City of Toronto was looking for ways to make its transfer stations in Solid Waste Management more energy efficient it went seeking the right partner with which to work.
After a long and comprehensive screening process, the city eventually selected Direct Energy for a tailor-made solution. After all Direct Energy, one of North America’s largest energy suppliers, had been helping private and public entities do just that for years.
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Sustainable architecture
More and more companies are turning to architects to help them design their buildings from the ground up in a more environmentally friendly way. We polled three experts in sustainable architecture too garner their opinions on the practice. They are Teresa Coady, chief executive officer and founding partner of BuntingCoady Architects, Kenneth Acton, professor of architecture at St. Clair College, and Carl Blanchaer, a design principal at WZMH Architects.
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The Green Pioneers
"If you look at some of the great firms in Canada, the connection to Canada and the environment and weather is really a dominant theme that runs through a lot of different companies," said Diarmuid Nash, a partner at Moriyama & Teshima. The Toronto-based firm -- which also has offices in Ottawa, Jeddah and Riyadh -- has been delivering sustainable and award-winning architecture, landscape architecture, and urban and environmental planning and design services since 1958.
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Secrets to Climate Adapted Building Design
Worldwide, buildings consume more energy than transportation, industry or agriculture. But unlike transportation, buildings are immobile; they present a better opportunity to conserve energy and reduce the dependence on fossil fuels.
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How to reduce your next building’s energy consumption
Is it possible to design and erect a building that is not a drain on the energy grid, i.e, a net zero energy building? Yes, it is being pursued! But is it practical to do so? Maybe not yet but there is a lot that can be done and makes economical and environmental sense, advises Albert Bicol.
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Redeveloping “brownfield” sites
Every acre developed in a brownfield project saves up to an estimated 4.5 acres of greenfield land from being developed in an outlying area.
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Quebec firm creates urban housing á la 2030
Developments in green building design and energy-saving concepts for both residential and industrial building have been growing rapidly over the past several years, and one Montreal-based firm is helping to lead the way.
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Greenfield development gets district energy boost
Billed as North America’s largest LEED-registered mixed-use development, Markham Centre aims to have townhouses and condos adjacent to corporate offices, stores, parks and entertainment venues so residents can walk to work, shop and play.
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Healthcare facilities pose critical building challenges
A trio of outstanding hospitals exemplify the many considerations involved in building healthcare facilities.
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