Optimizing ventilation and air handling systems is key to achieving net zero energy performance goals.

Two distinct, but complementary new federal programs promise funds for community buildings. Both are focused on meeting GHG reduction targets and are aligned with a pledge to invest $15 billion to address climate change and boost the green economy.

While the relevance of geothermal has been percolating for years, the buzz is that more developers are starting to pay attention.

Stantec pledges to carbon neutrality by 2022 as a first step in achieving net-zero operations by 2030 across its entire global footprint.

A2M shared their vision for the future of architecture – a concept called the permacity – at the Buildex architecture keynote in Vancouver.

The Government of Canada announced it is investing $2.5 million towards clean energy upgrades at 59 Sundance Housing Co-operative in Edmonton.

The Government of Canada is investing $3.9 million toward the construction of Canada’s first net-zero, mixed-use, multi-unit residential building in London.

As Canada moves to adopt a “net-zero energy ready” model by 2030, changes to the National Building Code will hold new property constructions and retrofits to more stringent energy usage guidelines.

The Government of British Columbia has released its CleanBC, developed as a pathway to achieve the province’s legislated climate targets.

Designers, builders and developers are being challenged to make energy-efficient buildings more affordable for British Columbians.

The mayors of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver are among leaders of 19 major world cities aspiring for net zero carbon emissions across their urban building portfolios by 2050.

In a changing world where “zero carbon” is the ultimate goal in building design, can retrofits alone make Canada’s aging apartment stock sustainable?

Interest in the Passive House standard has increased significantly in the last two to three years throughout North America and especially in Western Canada.

Net zero has long been used to describe the highest performing buildings – an objective in the building industry to reduce its environmental footprint.

To help meet Canada’s climate change commitments, the Canada Green Building Council has launched the country’s first Zero Carbon Building Standard.

Mattamy Homes has hired industry leader Subhi Alsayed in the new role of vice president, sustainable development at the company.

Del Ridge Homes and Forests Ontario have teamed up to plant over 140,000 trees to offset the energy and carbon footprint created by the new