Technical: Mass Timber Through a Life Cycle Lens
In 2020, I led a studio at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design that asked: How can we halve the carbon…
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embodied carbon
Why We Need Embodied Carbon Benchmarks and Targets in Building Standards and…
To Canadian Municipalities and Associations of Architects, Engineers, and Planners:
Canada, as well as a growing number of its jurisdictions, has set…
Embodied Carbon: Key Considerations for Key Materials
The challenge we face is overwhelming and complex. Our industry’s emissions currently account for 40 percent of total global annual CO2 emissions. Of that, a…
Learning from Kigali: Lessons for climate-positive design
When presenting our work on reducing embodied carbon in our projects in Kigali, we’re often asked some version of the question: “You can do that in Rwanda,…
Pandemic effect: Climate crisis
TEXT Susan Gushe, Principal and Managing Director, and Kathy Wardle, Associate Principal and Director of Sustainability, Perkins and Will
As we respond to…
What you need to know for building green in the GTA (and beyond) in 2020
On Tuesday, the CaGBC's Greater Toronto chapter hosted a breakfast detailing sustainability policy updates and anticipated low-carbon programs affecting the…
Letter to the Editor: Architecture’s blind spot
Thank you for shining a light on the enormous blind spot of our industry—embodied energy—in July’s issue of Canadian Architect. Anthony Pak’s observation that…
Letter to the editor: No carbon now!
Thank you for running Anthony Pak’s article on embodied carbon (CA, July 2019). As an industry, we’re catching on to the idea that embodied carbon is…
Embodied Carbon: The Blindspot of the Buildings Industry
Embodied carbon will be responsible for almost half of total new construction emissions between now and 2050.