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Buildings

December 1, 2011
Up Front

December 1, 2011
2012 ASHRAE Winter Conference

West Wing of Biological Sciences Building, Main Mall, University of British Columbia. Photograph by Martin Tessler, courtesy Acton Ostry Architects

Buildings Transportation

December 1, 2011
Biological Sciences Remake

IEEL Building, University of Calgary. Image courtesy Perkins & Will Canada Architects Co.

Buildings Energy

December 1, 2011
Catalysts for Change

Stories continue below

Mona Campbell Building, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. Image courtesy CBCL.

December 1, 2011
Mona Campbell Building

December 1, 2011
Products

November 29, 2011
LEED Canada certification process being streamlined

University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil Campus.

Buildings Companies & People

November 29, 2011
Five of six ASHRAE awards go to Canada

November 21, 2011
U.S. Energy Star building rating system goes Canadian

November 21, 2011
Green Municipal Fund opening for new applications

Architectural rendering of Halifax Central Library. (Fowler Bauld & Mitchell Architects)

November 21, 2011
Halifax central library starts construction

Buildings Companies & People

November 14, 2011
Halcrow bought by CH2M HILL

November 14, 2011
Glass walled towers come under fire on radio

Town of Murdochville with the Gaspe Mine in the background.

Buildings Companies & People Environmental Transportation Water & Wastewater

November 2, 2011
GENIVAR project to remediate copper mine in Gaspe Region wins top 2011 Canadian Consulting Engineering Award

November 1, 2011
Software: Toronto seminar reviews Bentley Systems’ ProjectWise tool

November 1, 2011
How tall should buildings go?

November 1, 2011
ASHRAE launches new tool for predicting human comfort

Artist's rendering of new Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton.

Buildings Companies & People

October 24, 2011
Competition decides designers of New Royal Alberta Museum

Robert Ho Research Centre, Vancouver. Photo courtesy CEI Architecture, MCMP Architects, Howard Waisman (photographer).

Buildings Companies & People

October 17, 2011
Robert H.N. Ho Research centre opens in Vancouver

Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) building, due to open in November at the University of British Columbia. The Canadian project was highlighted at the Greenbuild Conference in Toronto. Image courtesy UBC.

Buildings Environmental

October 11, 2011
Canadian approaches to sustainability shine at Greenbuild

Reconfigured auditorium. The acoustical reflectors are carefully adjusted, sometimes within less than a degree.

Buildings Companies & People

October 1, 2011
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE – BUILDINGS Queen Elizabeth Theatre Acoustical

View of building from Grand River.

Buildings Companies & People

October 1, 2011
TREE FOR LIFE – BUILDINGS A Grander View

Inside the chapel. Its carefully crafted, thick concrete walls have no construction joints. Photograph by Jason Ness Photography.

Buildings Companies & People

October 1, 2011
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE – BUILDINGS St. Joseph Seminary

Exterior view of renovated complex.

Buildings Companies & People

October 1, 2011
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE – BUILDINGS Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex

September 23, 2011
Calgary students build on Washington’s National Mall

Artist's rendering of new Prince Edward Island Convention Centre.

September 19, 2011
Prince Edward Island builds new convention centre

September 19, 2011
Study advocates burning garbage to make cement

September 12, 2011
Federal government invests in energy efficiency

September 12, 2011
Buildings can’t defend against a jet

September 12, 2011
Biological Sciences Complex renovated at UBC

September 6, 2011
Engineers involved in 9/11 conspiracy theories

Artist's drawing of the new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Campus, which opened in May in Seattle, Washington.

September 6, 2011
Gates Foundation draws help from Canadians