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SABMag 51 - Spring 2016

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Continuing Education: Environmental building declarations

An introduction to environmental building declarations The Athena Sustainable Materials Institute recently began publishing a new kind of document, something we call Environmental Building Declarations [EBDs]. An EBD is a summary report of comprehensive environmental footprint data for a building and declares the life cycle impacts of a building according

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Askew’s Uptown Supermarket

Flagship building delivers performance, anchors fresh ideas in mixed-use development A rapidly growing community of about 18,000 residents, Salmon Arm lies midway between Calgary and Vancouver on the south shore of Shuswap Lake. Established in the 1880s during the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, it has a compact and

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Viewpoint: Sustainable Design of Airports

Sustainable Design of Airports It has been a little over one hundred years since the Wright brothers took to the air, and our almost-miraculous ability to travel by plane has made flight an integral part of the world economy. As a result, from time to time Aviation is the subject

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