How Canada Can Solve Two Problems at Once: Building Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis
Canada’s bounty has made us lazy. As a country, we haven’t prioritized efficiency because we haven’t had to. Over the past century, we’ve built sprawling […]
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Regulating Embodied Carbon in Construction: Lessons from California
Mantle Developments has examined California’s pioneering approach to regulating embodied carbon in construction and explores potential lessons for Ontario in embodied carbon regulation. Keywords: Embodied […]
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Toronto Becomes First Jurisdiction in North America to Enact Whole-building Embodied Carbon Caps on New City-owned Buildings
On May 10, 2023, Toronto became the first North American jurisdiction to require lower-carbon construction materials, limiting embodied carbon from new municipal building construction. New […]
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Low-carbon Concrete Goes Mainstream
New requirement on low-carbon concrete for Government of Canada projects + new industry guideline on specifying low-carbon concrete from Concrete Ontario Government of Canada Projects […]
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Which insulation most effectively reduces whole-life carbon (embodied and operational)?
As the building industry is ramping up its efforts to minimize embodied carbon emissions, structural elements have been the main focus. Embodied emissions from […]
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Strategies for Low Carbon Concrete
Concrete is the second most widely used material in the world, second only to drinking water. The concrete industry is responsible for 8% of global […]
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Metro Vancouver’s roadmap to cut carbon from existing buildings
British Columbia (BC) has the reputation of being one of the greenest provinces in Canada, and indeed one of the greenest sub-national jurisdictions in the […]
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Toronto’s Plans to Slash Existing Building GHG Emissions
Toronto’s GHG Targets The City of Toronto continues to demonstrate leadership in mitigating the effects of climate change through the implementation of the climate action […]
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Identifying and Reducing Exposure to Climate Risk
Last month’s power outage in Texas is a dramatic example of the risks posed by extreme weather increasingly fueled by a changing climate. It is […]
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Imagining A Mass Timber Future
In recent blog posts on mass timber, we’ve covered mass timber’s rapid growth trajectory, its potential to reduce carbon emissions, and some challenges the industry […]
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