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Buildings

August 1, 2010
Green Building Festival, Toronto

Plants flourish in August on the Ajax Fire Hall roof. A layer of cups below the vegetation is fed by a rainwater cistern. Top right: firehall entrance.

Buildings Environmental

August 1, 2010
No Fuel for the Fire

Buildings Transportation

July 26, 2010
Plans for Lansdowne Park in Ottawa go ahead

Buildings Companies & People

July 19, 2010
Technical Notes – window coverings, green roofs, pipe insulation

Stories continue below

July 12, 2010
Unique and historic steel structures win top national awards

July 12, 2010
More prison time, means build more prisons

July 12, 2010
White sails on Canada Place being replaced

Buildings Companies & People

July 12, 2010
Woman reaches top at ASHRAE

July 5, 2010
ASHRAE gets into apps

July 5, 2010
Winnipeg gets new stadium for Blue Bombers

June 21, 2010
New ASHRAE 62.1 lists VOCs

June 7, 2010
Canada’s busiest train station starts $650-million refurbishment

June 7, 2010
Changes in store for next National Energy Code

Pine Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, Calgary.

Buildings Environmental Industrial Transportation Water & Wastewater

June 1, 2010
Up Front (June 01, 2010)

Airborne LiDAR scanning uses long-range laser combined with GPS and other technologies to create three-dimensional models of the earth's surface.

Buildings Environmental

June 1, 2010
Digital Modelling Tools

June 1, 2010
Computer Products (June 01, 2010)

May 31, 2010
New research tower at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Kids

May 31, 2010
Strengthen infrastructure for safety, says United Nations

Buildings Energy

May 21, 2010
Solar and geothermal technologies for buildings focus of May issue – now online

May 10, 2010
ASHRAE rescinds announcement related to cooling towers

May 10, 2010
High-rise residential buildings in Ontario now must have sprinklers

Buildings Energy Environmental Industrial

May 1, 2010
Mining Heat

Approach to the campus.

May 1, 2010
WestJet Calgary Campus

General piping schematic of thermal gradient header.

Buildings Environmental

May 1, 2010
Thermenex at Langara

Installing the ground loop below the clear well. The loop has 40 kilometres of HDPE pipe.

Buildings Environmental

May 1, 2010
Seymour-Capilano Plant

An array of 60 solar thermal panels is mounted on the roof of the West Village residence in Hamilton, Ontario. Its peak output is 105 kilowatts.

Buildings Energy Environmental

May 1, 2010
Solar on the brink

PowerStream Head Office

Buildings Energy

May 1, 2010
Three Solar Applications

Installation on the south facade; heat generated behind the photovoltaic panels is drawn off and delivered to the building's ventilation system.

Buildings Energy

May 1, 2010
John Molson School of Business

Drilling boreholes 137 metres deep throught bedrock for the geoexchange system. In the background is the Victoria Memorial Museum Building.

Buildings Energy

May 1, 2010
Beaver Barracks Geoexchange

Buildings Energy

May 1, 2010
Sun is shining for solar specialists

Above: Staufen Town Hall, Germany. Cracks started to form in this and neighbouring buildings immediately following geothermal drillings in the city centre in 2007. Photographs taken 2009, courtesy Nico Goldscheider.

Buildings Environmental

May 1, 2010
Doing it Right

Buildings Environmental

April 26, 2010
Professor says shiny glass towers are the real problem