Building Materials
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Preparing your property for wildfires
As summer approaches and temperatures rise, many facility and maintenance managers are looking for a strategy to try and protect their properties from this season’s
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Lack of regulations and data hinder LCA progress
Selecting the lowest carbon-emitting products across a building’s material portfolio could reduce emissions by more than one-third, according to new global findings.
Construction Business
Strategies to minimize tariff impacts on construction
The U.S. decision to put 25 per cent tariffs on construction materials is expected to have significant impacts on the construction industry.
REMI Network
U.S. tariffs will increase housing costs, says NAHB
The National Association of Homebuilders is urging President Trump to reconsider tariffs on Canadian and Mexican building materials due to impacts on housing costs.
Canadian Property Management
Making the Move to Mass Timber
Canada and the world have begun to embrace mass timber as a preferred construction material for large building projects.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
What toxic chemicals are lurking in our buildings?
In the age of COVID, it's also important to consider how chemical exposures influence our ability to fight disease.
Design Quarterly
Green experts issue antimicrobial use warning
Green building organizations, architects, and scientists warn that building materials with added antimicrobials have no proven health benefit.
Canadian Property Management
How Durable is Your Building?
Bryan Colvin of RJC Engineers walks us through the pros and cons of four common material to assess building durability.
REMI Network
Many cities are aggregate recycling laggards
Despite the many benefits of aggregate recycling, millions of tonnes of asphalt and concrete are dumped into landfill sites in Ontario.
Design Quarterly
Carbon tool launched for building materials
The Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) tool is a first that allows the building industry to analyze embodied carbon emissions of materials.
REMI Network
Sheep’s wool insulation seen as sustainable option
Wool insulation, made from the remnants of sheering sheep, is increasingly finding its way into commercial and residential buildings.
REMI Network
Vancouver building to be Shigeru Ban’s tallest
Pritzker Prize winning architect Shigeru Ban is planning to design his tallest structure ever for Vancouver’s Coal Harbour neighbourhood.
Design Quarterly
Impact of building materials on human health
The impact of the built environment on human health and wellness is becoming a more important topic in the industry. As the buildings industry attempts
Building Strategies & Sustainability
How EPDs factor into building standards
CSA Group’s Rick Lacoboni explains the purpose of EPDs and how they come into play in various building standards.
Building Strategies & Sustainability
The benefits of engineered wood
Peter Moonen of the Canadian Wood Council explains how engineered wood products can enhance the performance of a building.
Building Strategies & Sustainability
Creating high-performance curtain walls
Curtain walls performance can be increased by evaluating the system as a whole, rather than looking at the performance of each component.
Canadian Property Management
‘Nutrition labelling’ for building products
The Health Product Declaration (HPD) open standard was developed to provide support for evaluating products ...
