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Upfront Carbon Assessment in Canada’s High-Arctic

Located in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut – in Canada’s far north – the Kuugalaaq Community Centre serves the Copper Inuit, also known as Innuinnait and Kitlinermiut, […]

Climate Scenario Analysis for Utility

Mantle Developments worked collaboratively with our partners at Manifest Climate and Willis Towers Watson to provide climate scenario analysis to Nova Scotia Power. Through this […]

Innovative embodied carbon scenario analysis for new construction and renovation

Mantle Developments supported a confidential Canadian utility company by calculating the embodied carbon associated with various building archetypes including structure, envelope, mechanical and plumbing systems, […]

Integrating Life-cycle Assessment into Ontario’s Infrastructure Planning and Decision Making

We performed research, analysis and provided insights for consideration on strategies to integrate life cycle assessment (LCA) into future government infrastructure planning and decision-making. This […]

Climate Resilience Strategy Development and Implementation

We helped develop the YMCA of Greater Toronto’s first Climate Resilience Strategy. This included outreach and education to various team members including senior management, the […]

Net Zero Carbon Construction: Insights from the TD Future Cities Centre’s Net Zero Carbon Redevelopment

The TD Future Cities Centre located at Evergreen Brick Works, in Toronto’s Don Valley, is a model of true sustainable development. This report shares practical […]

Embodied carbon management for office interiors renovation

We supported the low-carbon renovation of the Bentall Centre in downtown Vancouver through: Developing an embodied carbon procurement strategy and compared the embodied carbon of […]

LEED Certification Management for Four YMCA Community Centres

We are project managing the LEED certification at four YMCA community centres in the Greater Toronto Area. We are responsible for ensuring all LEED requirements […]

Development of Online Education Course “Net Embodied Carbon & Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)”

Mantle developed this online on-demand module course which is part of the ENV SP certification training. It introduces the concepts of embodied carbon and life […]

Custom Training on Embodied Carbon for Structural Engineers and Envelop Consultants

Custom Training on Embodied Carbon for Structural Engineers and Envelope Consultants

Mantle developed and delivered three virtual training workshops to this engineering firm. The training was provided to the entire staff as important education on embodied […]

Strategies for Low Carbon Concrete: Primer for Federal Government Procurement

This primer was developed to assist government officials to better understand the numerous strategies that can be used to reduce the embodied carbon of concrete, […]

Mass Timber Construction: Primer on Opportunities and Risks in Metro Vancouver

Mantle supported the decision-making of a major developer regarding using mass timber as the main structure in one of their projects. We summarized potential opportunities […]

Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code Updates for Climate Change

Mantle conducted background research, develop presentation slides, and facilitated four in-person workshops across Canada regarding potential climate change-related updates to the Canadian Highway Bridge Design […]

Confidential mass timber/concrete hybrid building Whole-Building Life-Cycle Assessment (WBLCA) for LEED Building Design + Construction, Core & Shell v4.1

Mantle provided a design case whole-building life cycle assessment, as required by LEED Building Design + Construction v4.1, Building Life-Cycle Impact Reduction credit, Option 4, […]