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Drilling through the cost barrier of high performance buildings - Part 2: Cross Laminated Timber

Excerpts taken from Terrell Wong at Green Building Festival in Toronto, October 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXSpcyUgCKM...

Drilling through the cost barrier of high performance buildings

What is Passive House design currently, but just high-end custom design? This is the most expensive way to build.

Crushing It - Rammed Earth strength test

We were up at Exp Testing Services Inc. at the request of the City of Ottawa to prove that a 6" wythe of rammed earth can hold up a 2...

RETHINKING THE BUILDING STOCK – IT’S A CARBON THING (Filling in the Gaps with the #MissingMiddle:P

Recently in social media the #missingmiddle has become more popular. I must be old because this missing middle was just called “poor...