Tag: green building
Green Building Workshop: Effective Commissioning for Existing Buildings
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.
CaGBC Toronto – Annual Gala 2011: Building Towards a Low Carbon Future
Join us on November 23rd, 2011 for an energizing evening of live music, local cuisine and networking with 350 industry professionals in support of the Greater Toronto Chapter’s continuing education and training programs.
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).
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.
Ontario’s Sustainable City Innovation Network: Building Green Communities
Through support for Evergreen Brick Works, Ontario is helping to launch a new project that will advance new technologies in energy, transportation, green building design and water and waste management.
CMHC to reward Ontario educators for excellence in sustainability education
Toronto, ON – Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) is accepting nominations for the 2009 Excellence in Education Award for Promotion of Sustainable Practices by Ontario educators. The award honours secondary and post-secondary educators who have contributed to higher standards in education by integrating sustainable concepts into their academic curriculum. This includes sustainable practices in [...]
Toronto Community Housing leads green push
The Humber Blvd. building seems an unlikely headquarters for Toronto’s fight against climate change. The 14-storey highrise near Weston Road and St. Clair Ave. looks like just another rundown Toronto Community Housing dwelling – dirty brown brick, smeared glass doors and rusty garbage bin slumped by the entrance. But step inside the lobby, and the [...]
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 [...]
