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Charting your road to net zero

For building owners, retrofits can be key to maintaining a competitive edge with a profitable, resilient portfolio

Many of Canada's greenest apartments are ultra-affordable. Here's why

Seven principles for designing low-carbon skyscrapers

With concerns about the carbon emissions associated with skyscrapers, Philip Oldfield sets out seven ways to design more sustainable tall buildings.

COVID-19 Brings the Importance of Indoor Air Quality to the Forefront

Until the COVID-19 pandemic, we rarely thought about indoor air quality as a serious health threat

Ken Soble Tower becomes world's largest residential Passive House retrofit

Ken Soble Tower, an affordable housing high-rise for seniors in Hamilton, Ont., is now arguably the world’s largest residential building retrofitted to the Passive House standard. Led by ERA Architects and PCL Construction, the project team slashed the 80,000-sf, 18-story building’s greenhouse gas emissions by 94% and its heating energy demand by 91% en route to achieving EnerPHit certification.