Unlike other jurisdictions, Ontario still lacks formal acoustic standards for classrooms, despite mounting evidence linking noise exposure to learning outcomes and health impacts for staff and students.
Project co-owner Paul Mansfield says renovation of the two-storey, underground bunker started less than a year ago, but the project has already attracted attention from several well-heeled buyers.
A U.S. presidential proclamation on Sept. 22 set out a 25 per cent levy on imports of kitchen cabinets and vanities as well as other upholstered wooden products.
Since 2017, this biennial competition has honoured drywall projects that push boundaries and set new standards in design, sustainability, and performance using Saint-Gobain and CertainTeed gypsum products and solutions.
Updated to reflect current best practices, this guide lays the story of earthen floors through the ages and their role in modern green building.
Carbon capture has long been a focus of emissions reduction efforts in Canada. It involves collecting the climate-warming gas from industrial sites and preventing it from entering the atmosphere, most often by stowing it away permanently underground.
The group’s carbon reduction strategy is built on two main pillars: improving energy and material efficiency and replacing high-impact inputs.
Andrew Frontini’s career at the Toronto branch of Perkins&Will, as seen through 11 projects.
The ratings system that shaped green building in Canada raises the bar on sustainability with newest version.
The concept of the rehabilitation project is reversibility, and the interior design strategy aims to preserve the authenticity, integrity, and richness of the building’s historic elements.