On Thursday May 31st at 6pm, join Sustainable Buildings Canada for an evening session at Toronto’s beautiful Spoke Club. We are excited to announce that this event will feature presentations from these expert speakers: Michelle Xeureb, Quadrangle Architects,...

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True building innovation demands an advanced collaboration between design disciplines. Come out to this pub night which brings architects and engineers together to network and learn about recent experiences in designing ultra low-energy and low-emission buildings....

SBC Ottawa Breakfast Session: Pushing the Building Envelope On Tuesday November 21st, Sustainable Buildings Canada hosted a morning session in Ottawa at Algonquin College's Applied Research and Innovation building. This event featured talks from our expert...

Our annual Green Building Festival is always an intense intellectual expedition led by passionate industry guides and tireless champions. It takes all of your bandwidth (ok…mine) just to keep pace. One really can absorb only so much in 8 hours though, no matter how...

Looking back on a conference is a lot like looking back on a wedding. A conference requires upfront commitment from the parties involved, followed by months of planning, a flurry of outreach, the hype, management of vital details, and of course significant costs paid...

  Passive House Canada is offering courses across Canada, including in Toronto, Ottawa, Saskatoon and Calgary, as well as in a number of communities in BC in the coming months. With Canada’s new national building strategy, and the City of Toronto and the City of...

Sustainable Buildings Canada is thrilled to announce two new members to our Board of Directors: Mike Williams, and Robin Hutcheson.                     Mike Williams is a professional engineer and Principal at RWDI. Mike brings over a decade of sustainable design...

August 22nd SBC Evening Event - Featured Research Activities and Results Thank you to those who joined Sustainable Buildings Canada for an evening session at Toronto’s beautiful Spoke Club on August 22nd. The evening featured presentations from these expert speakers:...

Many thanks to the presenters, who have agreed to make their presentations available for download: Beate Lubitz-Prohaska, Austrian Institute for Ecology: Sustainable Buildings in Austria & the "2050 Goal" on Climate Change (For more information on ÖGNB click here &...