Sustainable Architecture & Building

Sustainable Architecture & Building (SABMag) is the premier resource on sustainable, high-performance building design and construction in Canada. It is published for architects, building contractors, engineers/building consultants, and building owners/managers and contains: profiles of building projects of all types – both new and renovated – including construction details, articles about high-performance building subjects, interviews and product information. One issue per year is devoted to the winning projects of the annual Canadian Green Building Awards which represent some of the best high-performance buildings in Canada.

Sustainable Architecture & Building

PASSIVE HOUSE AND BEYOND

RAIC REPORT: RELAUNCH OF POPULAR PROJECT MANAGEMENT COURSES

2023

THE CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION: A Catalyst for High-Performance Buildings and Industry Transformation • Passive House Canada is happy to introduce the annual Passive House issue of SABMag which profiles recently completed Passive House-certified projects from across the country.

BIRD'S WING DUPLEX • Creative spatial design makes for flexible living

MOSAÏQ COMMUNITY HOUSING • The construction of the affordable housing com- plex known as “Mosaïq” is part of a much larger multiblock redevelopment set in the urban core of Ottawa's Little Italy. The program called for a significant increase in density while designing to the stringent sustainability provisions of Passive House (PHIUS).

BUILDING NX Retrofit • A first for Passive House certification

THE WELLINGTON Good design and high performance break stereotype of affordable housing • Located at the historic intersection of Union & Wellington streets in the heart of Saint John, The Wellington is a 6-storey mixed-use development, with ground floor commercial space and 5 upper floors containing a total of 47 affordable and market rate apartment units.

A FRAMEWORK FOR REGENERATIVE DESIGN • According to the August 2021 report from Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (WPG-1), ‘it is only possible to avoid warming of 1.5 °C or 2.0 °C with associated catastrophic impacts, if massive and immediate cuts in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are made’ before 2030. In short, we have less than eight years to drastically reduce global carbon emissions and avoid the direst impacts of climate change.

RIGHTS OF NATURE: Pathways to legal Personhood for the Fraser River Estuary • “Imbuing the estuary with legal standing and personality captures the estuary's intrinsic value as a living organism, beyond what resources it can provide to support economic growth and in- dustrialization.”

Irene Rivera and Esther van Eeden: Designing the Passive House Putman Family YWCA • Irene Rivera, associate architect, and Esther van Eeden, director of high-performance buildings, at Kearns Mancini Architects in Toronto (kmai.com), were part of the design team of the Passive House certified Putman Family YWCA in Hamilton which received the Technical Award in the SABMag 2023 Cana- dian Green Building Awards, sabmagazine.com/2023-winners-sabmag-canadian-green-building-awards.