Regulators in Canada and the United States are out of sync in banning the R-410A refrigerant that’s currently a mainstay of variable refrigerant flow (VRF) heat pump systems.

Artificial intelligence is proving useful for teaching old dogs new tricks in the existing buildings sector, finding energy savings and emissions reductions in advance of comprehensive retrofits.

Proposed new provincial legislation would strip municipalities of their ability to request a record of site condition (RSC) in specified circumstances where the risk of site contamination is deemed to be low.

An expanding roster of tech companies aligned with the sustainable and smart buildings market reflects growing demand from end-users and draws support from increasingly enthusiastic investors.

A newly released audit of 20 select initiatives in the Canadian government’s 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan concludes that just nine of them are on track to meet their targets.

The Canadian government promotes a standardized approach for categorizing sustainable investment and verifying its credibility for market participants.

Housing, tax and energy costs are prominent on the agenda as British Columbia, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan all prepare for provincial elections in October.

The Building Owners and Managers Association of Canada presented its national awards on September 25, 2024.

A newly released primer from the First Nations Major Projects Coalition highlights clean energy opportunities and some illustrative generation, storage and transmission projects.

New water use initiatives from the Canadian government and the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate (OSCRE) have been unveiled for public input over the course of summer 2024.

Energy efficiency will gain standing in the 2025 GRESB assessment when the global benchmark for ESG performance of commercial real estate portfolios introduces revised scoring for its energy performance metric.

The Canadian government’s newly released green buildings strategy contains little that is actually new for commercial real estate or public sector facilities.

The cost case for salvaged steel looks promising even with an embryonic supply chain and a raft of logistical complexities to recover and then reuse structural members in new construction projects.

Ottawa landlords are contemplating a list of new expectations from a prized office tenant following recently announced updates to the federal government’s green operations strategy.

The building features that most commonly impede people with disabilities are not those that are the costliest or most structurally complicated to correct, new survey findings show.

Based on self-reporting, many of the commercial real estate firms subject to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s pending climate-related disclosure rules are grappling with how they will comply.

Greenhouse gas emissions from Canada’s buildings sector indicated improvement in 2022 in keeping with the general results of the newly released national inventory report.