This is the third in a series of posts about designing for resiliency. In the first post, our Founder and CEO, Sandra Leigh Lester, spoke about a catastrophic weather event that affected her home town when she was a child and how it continues to inspire her work.
This is the second of a series of posts about designing for resiliency. In our last post, our Founder and CEO, Sandra Leigh Lester, spoke about a catastrophic weather event that affected her home town when she was a child and how it continues to inspire her work.
What does the next unpredicted catastrophic event hold for your business? This is the first of a series of posts about designing for resiliency. Actually, “unpredicted” is a misnomer. Lots of work is being done globally on modelling climate and predicting weather events. Note that climate and weather are not interchangeable. Changing overall patterns is …
Are You Making a Positive Difference? For how long now, have you been saying you’re going to build something that makes a difference? As a leader in your industry instead of a follower. It could be revolutionary. When are you going to do a development that is actually worth building, really worth building. Worth the …
Let’s use financial risk management for a couple of different possible future scenarios.
There are significant differences between LEED 2009 for New Construction and Major Renovation in Canada. Today we are going to talk about the old Sustainable Sites Category that changes to Location to Linkages. There is a new LEEDv4 Credit that rewards projects that are located within the boundary of a LEED ND project. Good luck …
The surface reflectance value is noted on most paints. Choose one with a LRV that is too low and you create a space that needs more lighting,
What is a Living Building? The Living Building Challenge was started by the Cascadia Green Building Council and has become a separate certification in its own right, based on a system of Petals.
Experts are starting to realize that COVID-19 will be with us for the long term. How do we rethink office space design so that it is more like being in the outdoors? How can we design offices in order to decrease the rate of spread of disease? What is best practice in hospitals and elsewhere …
We almost bought a two-storey 1,200-sq-foot brick house in a decent neighbourhood, fairly close to downtown, fairly close to a park, and Lake Ontario. But we didn’t do it. Why? Because, even though we realized that we would get more house for the neighbourhood, we realized that we would also need at least one car. …
