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Deep Retrofit Supply Chain Waiting For More Support

Westeck News

Content courtesy of PEMBINA institute Deep Retrofit Supply Chain Waiting For More Support Need to overcome low demand, lack of skilled labour, and lagging regulation. Canadians urgently need to adapt our homes to increasingly severe and frequent climate events. In 2023, Canada’s top ten weather events racked up an estimated $3.1

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Towers instead of Pavilions: An entirely different Inner Harbor

Community Architect Daily

The design breaks the current 50' height limit by a factor of 6 or more and introduces residential use to zoning regulations that allow only public and commercial uses. Either way, one would hope that the plan will get a thorough review regarding design and regulations. plan of Ayer Saint Gross of 2013.

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The Chesapeake Bay - A Complex Eco-System Explained

Community Architect

Beavers damming streams and creating wetlands, a bounty of huge oysters, 100' schooners transporting the lumber that came from swampy woodlands being converted into tobacco farms, finally massive sprawly shoreline development and a huge load of sediment reshaping the waterway in many ways.

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“Affordable Housing” Isn’t Affordable Unless It’s Energy Efficient

Westeck News

In addition to increasing housing supply and density in cities and communities, housing must also be built with the right materials and design to keep residents safe from the effects of increasingly severe climate events including extreme heat and cold – and poor air quality from forest fire smoke and pollution.

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How the Governor and MTA want to get the Red Line done

Community Architect Daily

The Governor's Announcement When the charismatic Governor stepped up to the podium seconds after the begin of the much touted event about the Red Line the first parking lot of the West Baltimore MARC station was filled with dignitaries of all stripes from federal to local. Besides, the 2015 estimate of $2.95

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NGV curator picks seven highlights from 2023 Melbourne Now's Design Wall

Deezen

How and why new products are developed is driven by social dynamics, regulations and economic forces." The company estimates that in any given year its use of recycled materials for pillows and quilts stops the equivalent of 100 million plastic drink bottles from entering landfill and waterways."

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Green Means Go: 6 of the World’s Highest Rated LEED Certified Buildings

Architizer

As we understand more about our predecessors’ past failings to protect our planet, there is an explicit drive to ensure the negative impact of development is minimized as one of the ways to ensure our future. Green Building Council has advocated for efficiency, sustainability and cost-effectiveness in community development since 1993.