Building Materials
Canadian Property Management
Making the Move to Mass Timber
Canada and the world have begun to embrace mass timber as a preferred construction material for large building projects.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
What toxic chemicals are lurking in our buildings?
In the age of COVID, it's also important to consider how chemical exposures influence our ability to fight disease.
Design Quarterly
Green experts issue antimicrobial use warning
Green building organizations, architects, and scientists warn that building materials with added antimicrobials have no proven health benefit.
Canadian Property Management
How Durable is Your Building?
Bryan Colvin of RJC Engineers walks us through the pros and cons of four common material to assess building durability.
REMI Network
Many cities are aggregate recycling laggards
Despite the many benefits of aggregate recycling, millions of tonnes of asphalt and concrete are dumped into landfill sites in Ontario.
Design Quarterly
Carbon tool launched for building materials
The Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) tool is a first that allows the building industry to analyze embodied carbon emissions of materials.
REMI Network
Sheep’s wool insulation seen as sustainable option
Wool insulation, made from the remnants of sheering sheep, is increasingly finding its way into commercial and residential buildings.
REMI Network
Vancouver building to be Shigeru Ban’s tallest
Pritzker Prize winning architect Shigeru Ban is planning to design his tallest structure ever for Vancouver’s Coal Harbour neighbourhood.
Design Quarterly
Impact of building materials on human health
The impact of the built environment on human health and wellness is becoming a more important topic in the industry. As the buildings industry attempts
Building Strategies & Sustainability
How EPDs factor into building standards
CSA Group’s Rick Lacoboni explains the purpose of EPDs and how they come into play in various building standards.
Building Strategies & Sustainability
The benefits of engineered wood
Peter Moonen of the Canadian Wood Council explains how engineered wood products can enhance the performance of a building.
Building Strategies & Sustainability
Creating high-performance curtain walls
Curtain walls performance can be increased by evaluating the system as a whole, rather than looking at the performance of each component.
Canadian Property Management
‘Nutrition labelling’ for building products
The Health Product Declaration (HPD) open standard was developed to provide support for evaluating products ...
Design Quarterly
Health advocacy
A collective effort is underway to develop a Health Product Declaration, which is aimed at creating a consistent format for reporting product content ...
Building Strategies & Sustainability
Green from the outside-in
There has been an incredible explosion of products and services available to those looking to create environmentally advanced buildings. Here is an update on innovative green products for the building exterior.
Construction Business
Optimizing performance – Extending the service life of concrete structures
Many people think of concrete as a durable, long-lasting material; however, the past 40 years has shown it might be otherwise.
Canadian Property Management
From rocky relations to common ground
A new voluntary standard, SERA, will enable developers of green projects to specify certified aggregates and/or help them to identify ...
