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Announcing the winning projects of the 2025 SABMag Canadian Green Building Awards
The jury selected 11 winning projects in the 18th annual SABMag Canadian Green Building Awards as follows:
Commercial Industrial (Large)/Prix commercial/industriel (grande taille)
Institutional (Large) Award/Prix institutionnel (grande taille)
National Sponsor: Canadian Precast Prestressed Concrete Institute
Category Sponsors: Inline Fiberglass, Mitsubishi Electric Sales Canada, Jeld Wen and Amexon
Our congratulations to the teams of the winning projects which will be fully published in the SABMag Summer Awards issue. The winning projects and jury comments can be found here.
Atlantic FOCUS 2025 Check out the new issue of 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, and the centre section has the full program of the BuildGreen Atlantic Conference in Halifax, April 28 and 29.
EcoSpex is launching a Canadian verified product platform revolutionizing how construction materials are specified for green and healthy buildings. The platform supports manufacturers by automating and digitizing the environmental certifications and other relevant documentation of their products on one platform so that Developers, Owners, Architects, Engineers, General Contractors, Interior Designers, and sustainability professionals can cut the time it takes to decide the suitability of products for sustainable building from hours to minutes. Read more …
SABMag’s new 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:
Corbec – Galvanize Better: Corbec leads in delivering the highest standards of quality control and assurance, with state-of-the-art facilities, unparalleled expertise, quality, and service. Pioneering for Sustainable Design and Construction by publishing with CSA the first EPDs in Canada for Galvanized Steel and the first EPD in North America for Galvanized Rebar.
INLINE Fiberglass – Our fiberglass windows and doors offer: Time-tested durability; Superior energy efficiency; Residential and commercial applications in LEED-certified projects. INLINE Series 3000 windows are Passive House International certified.
International Timberframes – We manufacture DLT in Golden, BC using local wood. Wood100® DLT is a 100% wood, no glue product. Stacked and cross laminated DLT panels. Design, engineering, manufacturing and installation services available. A healthy, sustainable and energy efficient building product.
LiveRoof – LiveRoof is the premier pre-vegetated green roof system available across Canada. Regionally grown modules with vegetation specifically selected and tested for your climate by the horticultural professionals at LiveRoof. Wind uplift tested according to CSA A123.24-15
Sapphire Balconies Ltd. – Sapphire’s Next Generation, Prefab Balcony is a groundbreaking construction solution with a 19% CO2 reduction across stages A1-A5, and able to connect to various structures including mass timber. Lighter materials reduce building structure impact. Safety is improved with the Remote Locker Device. The design offers unprecedented versatility and stringent quality control.
Superior Propane has announced a partnership with the City of Chilliwack to shift from traditional propane to renewable propane. Superior made the first renewable propane delivery to the City of Chilliwack in September 2024, marking the first step in the City’s transition to replace gradually its conventional propane supply with a renewable propane alternative for its fleet. As a ‘drop-in’ replacement fuel, renewable propane requires no infrastructure changes, allowing Superior Propane to leverage its existing delivery network. The initiative is part of Superior Propane’s broader vision for expanding the availability of low-carbon, renewable propane in the Canadian market. Read more …
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.
By Stephen Outerbridge, EXP Architects Inc.
The new Mackintosh Depot of the Halifax Regional Municipality replaces three existing buildings. The original mandate demanded a new 4,149 sq.m facility on two levels. During design the mandate changed by adding a third-floor office level to provide space for a fourth client group within the facility and increasing the footprint to 4,695 sq.m. Sustainability and longevity, low maintenance and high reliability solutions, with minimized effect on the environment, were paramount to the design outcome. Occupant wellbeing, acoustic comfort and privacy were also integrated, with accessible design.
The tilt-up concrete panels can be disassembled and the steel components recycled at the end of the building’s service life. The use of Halifax’s signature blue colours in the Aluminum Composite Panel system from PanelTech Exteriors adds a contemporary flair to the industrial surroundings. A thermal-mass floor slab for in-floor heating is served by Crest commercial condensing boilers by Lochinvar. Read more …
By Monica Guzman, M.Sc., P.Eng. Canada Masonry Design Centre
As the design and construction industry focuses more intently on reducing the embodied carbon of buildings, masonry manufacturers and manufacturer associations are actively working on developing Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) to assess and improve the environmental impact of their products. More broadly, the masonry industry is focusing on reducing the carbon footprint through efficient design and specifications, enhancing the energy performance of masonry assemblies, and raising awareness about the energy saving potential of their inherent thermal mass. At the same time, ongoing research is exploring the carbon sequestration capabilities of concrete masonry throughout its service life. Read more …
May 5-7 Passive House Canada Conference
Ottawa Passive House Canada Conference | Conférence Maison Passive Canada – Ottawa May 2025.
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