Sustainable Practices
The urgent need for regenerative design
Pursuing regenerative design is possible with accessible data management tools. Addressing the global climate crisis needs meaningful action.
Reflections on Earth Day
Earth Day provides an opportunity to reflect on what we as individuals can do to restore and care for our planet through green buildings.
Designing buildings to the highest sustainability
John Peterson, MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects, discusses the latest in sustainability for for commercial and residential buildings.
Vancouver’s Fire Hall 17 sets aggressive goals
Vancouver’s new Fire Hall 17 reflects the city’s design challenge to build a structure that meets the Zero Carbon Building standard.
Building resiliency during a pandemic
Resiliency in indoor environments are needed for airborne viruses such as COVID-19 but in many buildings that is not the case.
Resilient design in the workplace
A panel of speakers explored the significant steps businesses, governments and learning institutions are actively taking towards resilient design
LEED v4.1 to focus on performance outcomes
LEED v4.1 O+M’s updates focus on performance outcomes, and not on prescriptive measures to improve performance.
New architecture school brings lessons to life
Students of Canada’s newest architecture school won’t have to venture far to see lessons from the classroom come to life. The latest addition to Laurentian
Passive House poised for institutional uptake
Passive House, a voluntary standard for achieving extremely energy-efficient buildings, appears to be poised for wider uptake in institutional projects.
Is Passive House a panacea for the environment?
Interest in the Passive House standard has increased significantly in the last two to three years throughout North America and especially in Western Canada.
Evergreen targets carbon neutrality with retrofit
Evergreen is targeting carbon neutrality in the retrofit of its heritage-designated kiln building at Toronto’s Brick Works site.
KPMG looks to clients in locating Vaughan office
When KPMG selected its new location, proximity to clients factored prominently, leading the growing professional services firm to set up shop in Vaughan.
Inside CBRE’s latest workplace transformation
CBRE's Toronto West team was the first of three GTA offices to move into new digs as the firm completes a cross-country workplace transformation program.
HOK Toronto’s new Pinterest-inspired home
HOK Toronto recently earned an ARIDO award of merit for the design of its Pinterest-inspired new offices.
District energy key to reducing GHG emissions
The concept of district energy has gained new interest after being identified as a key measure towards helping cities significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Designing for an aging population
With an aging population, health and wellness in the design process is becoming increasingly important. The built environment (private or public) can have significant impacts
Green roof benefits for buildings
Green roof benefits include better air quality, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, improved storm water management and economic advantages.