Partners in Project Green is helping to green the minds of Toronto’s future workforce in an unique co-op program set to bring an eco-advantage for both students and employers in the Pearson Eco-Business Zone. The program leverages existing engineering and engineering technology co-op programs offered by Seneca College, Humber College, and ...

News | Rob Colman | Mar 3, 2010

ATLANTA — With publication of the green building standard, an updated online seminar reviewing its requirements is now available from ASHRAE.                 ANSI/ASHRAE/USGBC/IES Standard 189.1, Standard for the Design of High-Performance, Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, is the first code-intended commercial green building standard in the United States. It provides ...

News | Rob Colman | Mar 3, 2010

There are lots of different approaches to greening a building — reskinning, retrofits, rebuilds, and behavioural change. Many of these approaches are costly, and one has to ask, are they the best approach? A new UK study is looking for the answer. UK environmental charity BioRegional and its partners have ...

News | Rob Colman | Mar 3, 2010

After 17 extraordinary days of athlete performances and seven years of planning, the 2010 Olympic Winter Games are over, and Pulse Energy’s Venue Energy Tracker has shown them to be the most energy efficient Olympics ever. IOC president Jacques Rogge has declared that the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games will be ...

News | Rob Colman | Mar 3, 2010

VANCOUVER, BC — Greenscape Capital Group Inc. announced that it has partnered with the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) to secure access to high quality, competitively priced input materials for its rapidly growing energy retrofit project portfolio. TAITRA is a non-profit initiative jointly sponsored by the Taiwan Government, Taiwanese industry ...

News | Rob Colman | Feb 23, 2010

Laval, QC — Uniboard, a leading North American manufacturer of engineered wood products, announced recently that it has been approved as a manufacturer of Ultra Low Emission Formaldehyde (ULEF) particleboard by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). Uniboard's use of ULEF resin in the production of NU Green has earned ...

News | Rob Colman | Feb 23, 2010

Roofs are an important part of the sustainability discussion. Buildings account for about 30 per cent of energy consumed and about 27 per cent of all greenhouse gases created in Canada. Roofs in cities contribute to the urban heat island, which basically makes cities between 2-5 degrees Celsius warmer than ...

Features | Robert Colman | Feb 18, 2010

Minto has made a name for itself as a leader in green building practices by adopting  innovative technologies, management practices, and heavy promotion of sustainable buildings. The company is helping to bring green building to the mainstream quickly – and with style. One of the company’s recent condominium developments, Minto ...

Features | Robert Colman | Feb 4, 2010

A number of landlords, owners and tenants have recently received inquiries from rooftop solar panel installers, interested in installing solar panels on their roofs. In principle, the idea sounds good, encouraging green power solutions. But in circumstances in which the owner is not the end user of the building (it ...

Features | Lisa Borsook and Jeff G. Cowan | Feb 3, 2010

There are many incentives to go green, but to the average consumer, some are more compelling than others. Environmental factors are important, but they can seem remote. Economic incentives hit closer to home, but even they are sometimes imprecise, uncertain, or marginal. It is instead health-related incentives, according to Kevin ...

Features | Lenny Talarico | Oct 15, 2009

When it comes to being green, young Canadians are among the converted. To them, recycling is second-nature, a carbon footprint is a valuable measurement, global warming is a grave threat and alternative energy is the future. While Canadian schools have done a fine job in instilling an environmental consciousness into ...

Features | Lenny Talarico | Aug 19, 2009

By Lenny Talarico and Robert ColmanOn August 3rd the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) will launch the second phase of the LEED Canada Initiative: LEED Canada for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance 2009. This is one of many changes to LEED in Canada this year. Later this year, LEED Canada fo...

Features | Lenny Talarico and Robert Colman | Jul 15, 2009