Sustainability

Sustainability

Entrance to Toronto’s financial centre

Southcore design uses architecture as a gateway with mix of commercial and residential uses The Southcore Financial Centre (SFC) is a major mixed-use sustainable development in Toronto’s emerging Southcore Financial District....

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....

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....

Orwellian nightmare or workplace nirvana?

The Edge, the world’s most intelligent smart building, turns a traditional office environment upside down The work day may start the same as anywhere else, but the minute employees enter 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....

Attention to detail

R&M Smith Contracting has built a time-honoured reputation based on quality and innovation There’s definitely something to be said about a contractor who can point to 33 successful years in the....

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