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Top of the world

World’s tallest wood structure in B.C. a quantum leap forward for Canada’s forest and construction industries It can be easy to get caught up in all the hoopla about the tallest....

Not to be confused with Tiny Homes

How to downsize, co-habitate, build income property, and go greener by leveraging offsite construction systems By Tim Kuntz, President Revenu SGC (Strategic Growth Consultants) You have watched it on TV, it’s all over the....

EnerQuality Awards Handed Out to Ontario Best Green Builders

After an extensive series of high quality presentations about sustainability in the housing industry at the EnerQuality (EQ) Housing Innovation Forum, a highly talented group of builders took home hardware....

When less is more

  How Toronto Method quickly delivers well-insulated, air-tight healthy homes utilizing local trades, materials For their forward-thinking Risebrough Residence in North York, they wanted a home that would sip energy, endure for....

The three C’s

With wood building products and climate change goals that means carbon, construction and COP21 By Peter Moonen, National Sustainability Manager Canadian Wood Council BC Passive House Plant, Pemberton BC Photo Credit: Ema Peter Courtesy of the....

Eye to the future

Visionary pyramid-shaped highrise in Manhattan turning heads around the world With an eye focused squarely on the future, Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) is turning heads around the world....

Faster than a jet plane

Hyperloop concept for world’s first high-speed transportation system to be tested in Dubai Imagine, just for a minute, that a journey from Toronto to Montreal – currently requiring about five hours....

The Linear House

Sustainable maverick home epitome of super-modern geometric design At first glance, an observer could be excused for simply noticing the obvious. Certainly, the East York Toronto home that’s come to be known....

Above all else

Highest wooden building in the world to be built in Amsterdam Beginning in 2017, construction of the tallest timber tower in the world will get underway on the banks of the....

Rainforest in the desert

Dubai’s Rosemont Hotel and Residences to feature stunning artificial world It’s common knowledge that Dubai, on the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf, is well-known as a business hub extraordinaire with....

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