Buildings

A building, or edifice, is a structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the term building compare the list of nonbuilding structures. Buildings serve several societal needs – primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. …

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Saskatchewan Environmental Society · 20 March 2024 English

To summarize, the Saskatchewan Environmental Society fully supports the proposed Clean Electricity Regulations in the context of the current climate emergency. [...] Without the implementation of the draft Clean Electricity …

the Canadian economy such as transportation, buildings, and heavy industry. The regulations will have


National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health · 15 March 2024 English

Temporary evacuations due to fires or floods could affect stored water quality due to disuse and stagnation causing increased water age and growth of bacteria and biofilms, enhanced by moderate …

treatment devices supplying several homes and public buildings or businesses, to basic household cisterns storing to water customers regarding water quality in buildings located in areas damaged by wildfire. Sacramento


School of Public Policy, University of Calgary · 13 March 2024 English

R E S E A R C H P A P E R Volume 17:04 Assessing the March 2024 Viability of Smaller Municipalities: The Alberta Model Kimberly Jones, Mukesh Khanal, …

sewage facilities, roads, sidewalks and municipal buildings requires good planning and, of course, resources


PI: Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development · 13 March 2024 English

We respectfully acknowledge the space our organization is headquartered in as the traditional and ancestral territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy, comprised of the bands Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai, the Îyârhe …

highest-emitting sectors — oil and gas, transportation, and buildings — as these sectors electrify. Canada’s electricity


EAC: Centre d'action écologique · 13 March 2024 English

British Columbia The Reframed Initiative is a collaboration The province is supporting the design The buildings date from the 1960s to of the BC Non-Profit Housing and capital costs of the project through the

offsite and attached to the outside of existing buildings.” It is sometimes called a Prefabricated Exterior similar apartments in similar buildings across the province. The buildings are simply shaped rectangular and cost reduction opportunity to retrofit such buildings, improving their envelopes and insulation, and by sharing what they’ve of Sundance Housing’s buildings by in 2019, and the total cost of the retrofit collaboration The province is supporting the design The buildings date from the 1960s to of the BC Non-Profit Housing


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 12 March 2024 English

This report outlines the importance of monitoring progress in green public procurement (GPP) and highlights various methodologies, challenges, and recommendations to improve monitoring practices. The report focuses specifically on monitoring …

example of the design and/or construction of buildings ............................................. vehicles, and the design and/or construction of buildings (Lakić et al., 2022). Plans for future analyses example of the design and/or construction of buildings In measuring the sustainability impact of the the design and/or construction of buildings, various indicators and their corresponding methods (direct The analysis is conducted on a select group of buildings, as defined by the latest amendments to the Decree


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 11 March 2024 English

How has government support for energy in India evolved over the last decade? As India strives to become a USD 5 trillion economy over the next 3 years, what will …

through initiatives like solar cities green buildings etc. including support to states, demonstration


Saskatchewan Environmental Society · 11 March 2024 English

Eligibility Projects - are Indigenous-owned and led - advance Indigenous climate leadership - support the self-determined climate, social, and economic priorities of Indigenous peoples Other project criteria: - incorporate or …

be a key part of the forthcoming Canada Green Buildings Strategy, the Government of Canada intends to itiative/23476 Green and Inclusive Community Buildings When to apply not currently accepting applications public community buildings and the construction of new publicly-accessible community buildings that serve high-needs and mid- or high-rise multi-unit residential buildings in Canada, and that drive market transformation https://natural-resources.canada.ca/energy-efficiency/buildings/deep-retrofit- accelerator-initiative/deep-re


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 8 March 2024 English

1 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Global Warming of 1.5 °C: An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse …

Indigenous Peoples Nature-based 15 Transportation Buildings Adaptation 10 International climate finance Provincial/ 2016/17 TO 2028/29 100% Other Transportation Buildings Adaptation 75% International climate finance low-income households, older buildings affordability and multi-unit residential buildings, all of which are poorly homes and In addition to heat pumps, the federal buildings that otherwise rely on fossil fuels for heating


CAN-Rac: Climate Action Network Canada · 8 March 2024 English

1 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Global Warming of 1.5 °C: An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse …

Indigenous Peoples Nature-based 15 Transportation Buildings Adaptation 10 International climate finance Provincial/ 2016/17 TO 2028/29 100% Other Transportation Buildings Adaptation 75% International climate finance low-income households, older buildings affordability and multi-unit residential buildings, all of which are poorly homes and In addition to heat pumps, the federal buildings that otherwise rely on fossil fuels for heating


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