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Perkins+Will Vancouver Studio: new office in 40% less space maximizes functionalityThe Perkins+Will Vancouver Studio, winner of the Interior Design Award in the 2025 SABMag Canadian Green Building Awards, fulfills the goal of providing new space that embraces evolving workplace trends. The challenge was to reorganize the program in a space that was 40% smaller than the previous studio, and only a single floor rather than multiple levels. Within these constraints, the aim was to maximize functionality, promote social interaction, collaboration and creativity. The social heart of the studio is the “living room” which serves as café, kitchen and meeting venue. Wrapped acoustic wall panels by Decoustic reduce sound transmission. Read more …
National Sponsor: Canadian Precast Prestressed Concrete Institute
Category Sponsors: Inline Fiberglass, Mitsubishi Electric Sales Canada, Jeld Wen and Amexon
1620 Main St. E: Affordable housing project sets benchmark for sustainable, community-focused designBy Matthew Bolen, mcCallumSather
The 1620 Main St. E. project in Hamilton is an accessible six-storey affordable housing development which achieves high-performance energy efficiency through Passive House Classic principles and mass timber construction. The CityHousing Hamilton project was originally proposed as a four-storey structure but was expanded to six storeys to better meet housing demand while maintaining sustainability goals. Funding through CMHC’s Rapid Housing Initiative enabled cost-effective development to meet community needs. Special constraints included balancing Passive House airtightness and mechanical system coordination with cost certainty. This challenge was addressed through a design-build approach and early contractor involvement that streamlined the construction process. Prefabrication improved efficiency, enabling rapid assembly and reduced on-site waste. Redi-Wall Forming & Concrete provided the foundation forming.
Bigfoot Door appointed as North American wholesale distributor of Schüco Systems Bigfoot Door, a Mississauga-based family-owned manufacturer in the fenestration industry for over 45 years, has been appointed as the wholesale distributor of Schüco aluminum window and door systems across North America. Bigfoot Door has 15+ years of experience with Schüco systems, and will strengthen and expand the Schüco fabrication partner network across North America, ensuring fabricators have access to Schüco premium systems, technical expertise, and training.
The 2025 SABMag Directory a quick reference of products for high-performance buildingSABMag’s 2025 Directory of Sustainable Products and Services for Sustainable, High-Performance Building has just been launched. Listings are organized by Product Category and by LEED Category. The Directory also offers a quick view of the structure of LEED and is a quick reference for finding products. Examples of featured listings include:
KALWALL – Not a window. Not a wall. But you can trust Kalwall’s translucent daylighting systems to provide all the benefits of both. Museum-quality daylighting™ validated by complimentary daylight modelling; Best-in-industry thermal performance and solar heat gain control; Wind, fire and impact resistance; Stronger, lighter and more efficient options; meet all your project needs with Kalwall.
Mitsubishi Electric Sales Canada Inc. – Mitsubishi Electric offers a wide range of solutions for the residential and commercial market including: Air Source VRF, Water Source VRF, Hybrid VRF, Single-Split, Multi-Split, Hydronics and Ventilation.
Pretium Engineering – Pretium has extensive Energy and Carbon Reduction experience, helping clients to not only meet, but exceed their goals. Our team includes members certified across multiple programs for both new and existing buildings. These team members have firsthand knowledge of what it takes to meet even the most stringent energy and carbon goals effectively and efficiently.
Territt Indoor Environmental – Trusted provider of indoor air quality testing services for LEED and other green building projects across Canada. We are a specialized testing agency, having performed air quality testing on over 450 new construction projects in the green building sector since 2010.
VETTA Windows & Doors – Aluminum clad triple-glazed wood windows and doors; High performance, Passive House and FSC certified; German steel hardware; All custom-made to your shape, size, colour specifications; High grade anti theft and acoustic barrier performance.
Forbo’s Marmoleum Modular collection presents sustainable linoleum tiles in various sizes and designs that allows you to create stunning floor designs. The planks and tiles are created around visuals of wood, concrete, stone and marble and can be used to mix and match or on their own, both delivering a beautiful sustainable floor. Explore the Marmoleum Modular designs.
CPCI Learn on Demand Check out CPCI’s Learn on Demand platform for courses on various precast concrete-related topics, including formliners and colour stains, total precast concrete systems, resiliency, passive house, latest code and standard changes, accelerated building construction and much more.
Upon completion of the course, participants receive a certificate that qualifies them for Professional Development Hours (PDH) and/or Continuing Education Units (CEUs)/Continuing Education Credits (CECs).
Learn about precast concrete and earn continuing education credits at the same time!
Winner of the Commercial Industrial (Large) Award in the 2025 SABMag Canadian Green Building Awards, the TRCA Headquarters by ZAS Architects + Interiors and Bucholz McEvoy Architects (Dublin) incorporates an energy recovery ventilation (ERV) system highlighted by four “water walls” in the main atrium. These water walls are glass enclosures where ventilation air is pulled down from the roof intake and distributed to ERVs. Inside each glass duct, a chain-link mesh is suspended the full height, with cascading water providing both a visual display and a role in pre-heating and humidification of the dedicated outdoor air HVAC system.
Inline Fiberglass supplied the windows which are manually operated but monitored by BAS. The Tremco ExoAir impermeable air barrier mitigates air infiltration/exfiltration, vapour transmission and water penetration. The building uses the AquaTech Lochinvar Lectrus Boiler, an electric boiler available in a kW range from 15-150 for applications requiring sustainable alternatives to carbon producing fuels. Read the article …
Atlantic FOCUS 2025 takes a peek down eastCheck out the Atlantic FOCUS, published by SABMag in association with the CAGBC. It covers recent high-efficiency projects in the Atlantic Region – a multi-bay works garage, a retrofit, and a mixed income multi-unit residential apartment – as creative examples of sustainable building design. CAGBC articles include Deep Energy Retrofits and Reducing Embodied Carbon. See the digital version.
Engineered Assemblies offers CUPACLAD, a natural slate claddingEngineered Assemblies, a supplier of world-class facade materials backed by leading expertise in Rear-Ventilated Rain Screen (RVRS) sub-structure assemblies, now supplies CUPACLAD, natural sate cladding with high aesthetics and durability. Its innovative fastening as a rainscreen cladding make it a competitive and sustainable cladding option. More information.