Canada’s Clean Growth strategy for the built environment must look to the future it wants – a low carbon, climate resilient future
If we want to save lives and protect our communities, we must upgrade our building requirements with safer building codes that include non-combustible materials like concrete
Energy and thermal performance requirements play an increasingly significant role in building codes throughout North America. This wasn’t always the case. The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-onditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) published one of the first building energy standards, ASRHRAE Standard 90, in 1975. The earliest national standard for building energy performance, the National […]
When fires, floods and other major disruptions alter natural areas, our first instinct is to restore what’s lost. But moving forward may mean leaving some treasured things behind.
A new focus on resiliency is to be expected after the most damaging hurricane season on record and devastating fires in California.