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For building owners, retrofits can be key to maintaining a competitive edge with a profitable, resilient portfolio

With concerns about the carbon emissions associated with skyscrapers, Philip Oldfield sets out seven ways to design more sustainable tall buildings.

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Ken Soble Tower, an affordable housing high-rise for seniors in Hamilton, Ont., is now arguably the world’s largest residential building retrofitted to the Passive House standard. Led by ERA Architects and PCL Construction, the project team slashed the 80,000-sf, 18-story building’s greenhouse gas emissions by 94% and its heating energy demand by 91% en route to achieving EnerPHit certification.

PROJECT Ken Soble Tower, Hamilton, Ontario ARCHITECT ERA Architects Inc. As the effects of the climate crisis take hold, it is increasingly clear that to be good architecture, buildings must be sustainable. Conversely, even buildings that meet the highest standard of sustainability must be well-designed to be considered successful. There is a massive balancing act […]

LORINC: The vital need to renew Tower Renewal Almost exactly a year ago, a team of American affordable housing experts from the Urban Land Institute came to Toronto to offer up ideas for breaking the logjam on retrofitting our huge portfolio of aging slab apartment buildings that collectively provide reasonably priced accommodation for hundreds of thousands of people. They spent a few weeks studying this far-flung assembly of buildings, some privately owned and others run by Toronto Community H...