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The Homebuilders Association Vancouver is there to shed light on energy efficiency, step by step

Should council be working to mitigate (reducing emissions) or adapt (adapting to climate change that is already here)?

Council has unanimously adopted a bylaw that requires electric vehicle charging infrastructure in new residential development

Here are three things cities can do to reduce emissions (even if senior levels of government undercut their gains).

Plans to provide Douglas College with a student housing and academic space expansion of its downtown New Westminster campus are proceeding.

Over the last two decades, the building industry has been developing new ways of decreasing energy use and related carbon emissions in new buildings – be it through the use of a range of rating systems or improved building codes such as BC’s Step Code – but programs and policies to drive reductions in the […]

A commentary by a former ­television journalist who lives in Metchosin. “As I write this, a crew is installing a natural gas line to my house.”

Councillors want new buildings to use renewable energy, likely in the form of electricity, instead of fossil fuels for space heating, water heating.

With the release of a new report the city has become one of the leading municipalities in the nation when it comes to addressing embodied carbon in the building of residential homes. People are tuning into the research and the new reports — the Material Carbon Emissions Guide and the Benchmarking Report — outside of the communities of Nelson and Castlegar to see what ground

The honours were presented at the BC Presidents Night and Georgie Awards galas