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Green Building Workshop: Effective Commissioning for Existing Buildings – Sept. 8

| August 15, 2011
Green Building Workshop: Effective Commissioning for Existing Buildings – Sept. 8

Build your skills in determining the appropriate level of effort, actions, national and local standards, cost options, and reasonable timelines in an effectively commissioning an existing building. After taking this half-day course, you’ll be able to correctly and consistently interpret LEED requirements, develop effective requests for proposals, differentiate between service providers, and consistently identify the quality of service received in commissioning or recommissioning buildings.

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LEED Documentation (NC 1.1) Workshop — Sep 22, 2011, Toronto, ON

| August 15, 2011
LEED Documentation (NC 1.1) Workshop — Sep 22, 2011, Toronto, ON

This one-day interactive workshop discusses the LEED certification process and the tools in place to assist applicants seeking LEED Canada project certification for New Construction. This workshop addresses a number of the more complex documentation requirements in the LEED NC 1.0 + addendum and application guides for Multi-Unit Residential Buildings (MURB), Campus and Multiple Buildings (CMB) and Core and Shell (CS).

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Free Solar Thermal GreenTech Webinar

| August 11, 2011
Free Solar Thermal GreenTech Webinar

Kingspan Solar Inc. will provide an overview of solar thermal hot water heating and their evacuated tube collector Thermomax. This will include how solar thermal works, typical applications, the business case for action and examples of local installations.

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Zero Waste Simcoe congratulates Atlas BLOCK on their efforts to reduce our environmental footprint

| March 6, 2011 | 0 Comments
Zero Waste Simcoe congratulates Atlas BLOCK on their efforts to reduce our environmental footprint

Zero Waste Simcoe’s newest member is a “green company” and is a major contributor to our cause. Atlas BLOCK is a Victoria Harbour business, family held for 60 years and now operates also in Brockville, and their new “state of the art” plant in Hillsdale.

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BC Housing: Energy Specialist

| February 16, 2011 | 1 Comment
BC Housing: Energy Specialist

BC Housing – one of BC’s top 55 employers—is the provincial Crown agency that develops, manages and administers a wide range of subsidized housing options and programs for those most in need across the province. Creative and responsive to changing social pressures, BC Housing is recognized as a well-managed organization where people are passionate about their socially relevant work. [...]

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Builder’s energy plan goes green

| November 7, 2007 | 0 Comments
Builder’s energy plan goes green

Homebuyers have for years been hearing about the “green” benefits of using geothermal energy to heat and cool a residence, but ask most home builders in Canada’s risk-averse housing sector if they plan to embrace the technology and the excuses start flying. Geothermal systems and other technologies aimed at improving a home’s energy efficiency are [...]

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