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Pan Am buildings earn LEED certification
Five of the official facilities constructed for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games have earned LEED certification from the CaGBC.
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Blue Water Corporate Centre earns LEED Silver
The Blue Water Corporate Centre, an office complex in Sarnia, Ontario, has officially received LEED Silver certification.
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Montreal’s Tour AIMIA earns LEED Gold
The Tour AIMIA building in downtown Montreal has become the first new category A office tower in the area to earn LEED Gold status.
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Rating system launches for green landscapes
U.S.-based Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) has launched its new rating system for developing sustainable landscapes.
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Okanagan College achieves LEED Platinum
The Jim Pattison Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Technologies and Renewable Energy Conservation at Okanagan College has been certified LEED Platinum.
Building Strategies & Sustainability
What motivates the greening of suburban assets
While sustainable real estate means thinking outside downtown cores, experts stress the necessary models required to support these suburban assets.
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Constitution Square achieves LEED Platinum
Constitution Square in downtown Ottawa is the first office complex in the area to earn LEED Platinum EB certification.
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LEED certification off to vigorous start in 2015
The total number of LEED certified projects in Canada has jumped to 2,252 as the Canadian Green Building Council (CaGBC) reports a healthy start to 2015.
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Hamilton facility wins top AIA green award
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has named a Diamond Schmitt Architects’ building as one of the top ten green projects of 2015.
Building Strategies & Sustainability
Greywater and stormwater use in buildings
A large cistern installed near the main plumbing lab in Peterborough’s Kawartha Trades and Technology Centre at Fleming College is ready to harvest rainwater. This
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Bridgepoint is T.O.’s first LEED silver hospital
Bridgepoint Hospital (Bridgepoint) in Toronto, Ont. recently became the first hospital in the city to receive a LEED silver certification from the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC). Finished in 2013, the purpose-built hospital provides rehabilitative care and health care for individuals living with complex health conditions.
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Six Cadillac Fairview towers earn LEED status
Six Cadillac Fairview office towers in Vancouver, B.C. have received LEED certification, including five at the Gold level. “Our tenants want greener, more cost effective
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T.O. purpose-built office is LEED Platinum first
The Elementary Teacher’s Federation of Ontario (ETFO) building earned LEED Platinum certification, making it the first purpose-built structure in Toronto to attain the status.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Inside U of T Mississauga’s Innovation Complex
To subsume or not to subsume. That was the question presented by the project brief for the expansion and renovation of University of Toronto Mississauga’s
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Toronto condo earns LEED Gold certification
Reflections Condominium (Reflections), a 12-storey condo development in Toronto's North York region, has earned a LEED Gold certification from the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC). A joint venture project by FRAM Building Group and Cadillac Fairview Corporation, the 106-unit residential development was recently completed and is one of a few condo developments to receive the Gold certification.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
$42.3-mil correctional facility opens in N.S.
A new $42.3-million correctional facility has officially opened in Priestville, N.S. Known as the Northeast Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, the jail replaces the aging Antigonish and Cumberland penitentiaries, built in 1948 and 1890, respectively. The new building is the second largest correctional facility in the province.
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Vancouver’s Bentall Tower IV earns LEED Gold
A 35-storey Class A building, part of the Bentall Centre office complex in Vancouver, has earned LEED Gold certification from the Canada Green Building Council.



