Innholdsfortegnelse for Winter 2025 i Sustainable Architecture & Building

In a year when the environmental news about global warming, biodiversity loss, plastic pollution, air pollution, deforestation and multiple other metrics was all bad, it was refreshing to read the more optimistic view put forward by data scientist Hannah Ritchie in her recently published book 'Not the End of the World'. Opening with a review of the Bruntland Commission's definition of sustainable development as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”, Ritchie asks us to zoom out and look more broadly at both the social and environmental implications of that definition. If we accept that human health and wellbeing legitimately fall within the definition of present needs, then our progress over the last century or two is remarkable. Whether…

Visit SABMag's Directory of Sustainable Products and Services for Sustainable, High-Performance Building where products are organized by Product Category and by LEED Category. Examples of featured listings include: Canada Green Building Council The Canada Green Building Council helps unlock green buildings' potential for eliminating carbon emissions and environmental impacts. We offer industry-proven certifications like LEED and the Zero Carbon Building Standards, as well as training and advocacy that accelerates green building and retrofits. www.cagbc.org/get-involved Kalwall - Not a window. Not a wall. But you can trust Kalwall's translucent daylighting systems to provide all the benefits of both. Museumquality daylighting™ validated by complimentary daylight modelling; Best-in-industry thermal performance and solar heat gain control; Wind, fire and impact resistance; Stronger, lighter and more efficient options; Meet all your project needs with Kalwall.…

Design for Disassembly and Adaptability (DfD/A) is an approach that facilitates dismantling a product or building at its end-of-use, enabling the recovery of components and materials intact, to facilitate their use in subsequent applications, including complete reassembly. The goal of DfD/A is to keep materials in their highest use for as long as possible. HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS The concept of DfD/A in permanent buildings isn't new. Indeed, there were industrious (and perhaps morally suspect) parishioners in the 1500's in Appenzell, a canton in the Swiss Confederacy, constructing homes on their lots, taking advantage of the free lumber from the church-owned forests offered to the congregation for this purpose, then disassembling these houses to sell to others, to be relocated and reassembled on a new site. Even earlier, in Japan, techniques for…

WHAT IS THE CBE? Circular is the key word in defining the CBE which is modelled after cycles in nature that continuously use and transform materials without waste. According to the World Green Building Council, a circular building optimizes the use of resources while minimizing waste throughout its whole life cycle. The building's design, operation and deconstruction maximize value over time using: 1. Durable products and services made of secondary, non-toxic, sustainably sourced, or renewable, reusable or recyclable material; 2. Space efficiency over time through shared occupancy, flexibility and adaptability; 3. Longevity, resilience, durability, easy maintenance and reparability; 4. Disassembly, reuse or recycling of embedded material, components and systems; and 5. Life-cycle assessment (LCA), life-cycle costing (LCC) and readily available digital information (such as BIM that capture building material passports)…

Northern Ontario's new healthcare campus moves forward Pomerleau Healthcare Partners (PHP) has been awarded the contract to deliver the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (WAHA) Redevelopment Project in Moosonee, northern Ontario which officially achieved financial close on October 3, 2024. The team was selected by WAHA and Infrastructure Ontario (IO) to help expand and improve access to health care services for people living in the western James Bay and Hudson Bay regions. Kasian, in partnership with Bertrand Wheeler Architecture Inc., was selected by Pomerleau Construction to plan and design the new $1.8B regional health care campus and a new ambulatory care centre on Moose Factory Island. The redevelopment project is being delivered using the Progressive Public-Private Partnership (P3) Design Build Finance (DBF) model.. www.kasian.com BUILDEX Vancouver, February 26 – 27, 2025…

Visit the Directory online for Listings organized by Product Category and by LEED Category https://sabmagazine.com/product-directory/ → LEED categories noted for the products listed in the following pages are intended to show how these products can potentially help a project earn LEED v4 points → Companies listed in bold have 1/8-page listings containing more information, and are linked to their websites from the online version of the Directory SITE | LANDSCAPING | RAINWATER HARVESTING * companies in bold have a 1/8-page listing LANDSCAPING PRODUCTS ACO Systems Architek SBP Bayview Cycle Centre Bike Up Biogreen Systems Ltd. Busch Systems Ltd. Carmanah Technologies Champagne Edition Inc. Colbond Inc. Contech Construction Products Inc. CRS Electronics Deltalok Inc. – Green Retaining Wall Structures D. Litchfield & Co Ltd. Envirobond Products Corporation Gator International GE WattStation…