To ensure that you always receive these messages, add daniel@boma.bc.ca to your address book | | | Creating a zero carbon world from the bottom up JOURNAL OF COMMERCE A zero carbon world is going to come from the bottom up. Edward Mazria, founder of the Architecture 2030 initiative, said innovation and reduction of greenhouse gases (GHG) will happen through smaller, local means rather than through national and international initiatives. | | | SAIT shows off Calgary’s first net-zero commercial building METRO NEWS To step into SAIT’s brand-new Green Building Technologies (GBT) Lab and Demonstration Centre is to step into the future – a future where buildings produce as much energy as they consume. | | | Research challenges current green roof standards REMI NETWORK Land buried beneath rising water, torrential rain slamming into cities, shutting down roads, bridges, subways and even buildings, bacteria flowing into properties and open water systems. Headlines across Canada are awash with these images more and more, especially in older cities like Toronto where aging infrastructure, combined sewage systems and increasing rain events are a perfect storm of conditions for flood damage. | | | Tracking climate change’s impact on B.C. winemakers UBC For B.C. winemakers, it’s an exciting, if worrying, prospect: climate change pushing the continent’s best grape-growing regions north. According to some studies, B.C.’s wine-producing regions stand to benefit from earlier harvests brought on by a warming planet. | | | Millennials break ideological boundaries when combatting climate change UBC Voter turnout for the 2015 federal election was at its highest since 1993. This was also the year Canadians, especially millennials under 30, voted strategically in record-breaking numbers: not along party lines but along policy initiatives. | | | What Vancouver can learn from Osnabrück’s clean energy transition UBC Literally, it means “energy turn,” and the term has entered the international lexicon to denote Germany’s shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Germany has made large strides in its energy transition. 27 per cent of the country’s electricity now comes from renewable sources. That’s three times as much as it produced ten years ago. | | | IoT and HVAC HPAC ENGINEERING In our HVAC world, the opportunities for IoT solutions are limited only by our imaginations and our clients’ budgets. | | | Does increased ventilation really improve cognitive performance? HPAC ENGINEERING If the results of the study are scientifically valid, they could lead to major modifications of HVAC/ventilation design practices. A reorganization of data, however, raises questions about whether the data support the conclusions in the report or any firm conclusion at all. | | | | | | Product Spotlight | | |
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| | Goodway issues HVAC coil-cleaning checklist HPAC ENGINEERING As facility-maintenance professionals prepare for summer, it is important they make sure evaporator-coil cleaning and maintenance is on their to-do list. | | | Utility savings fund Saskatoon hospital upgrades REMI NETWORK Royal University Hospital, located on the University of Saskatchewan campus in Saskatoon, is a seven-wing, seven-storey facility that raised the standard of medical treatment in the province when it was built in 1955. Over the years, aging infrastructure and outdated, energy-wasting fixtures needed to be improved, not only for the health and wellbeing of patients and staff, but also to help mitigate the building’s environmental footprint. | | | BOMA BC Environmental Programs | BOMA BC is taking an active role in promoting energy efficiency and sustainability with its members by providing cost-effective tools and resources to improve performance in buildings. We offer direct assistance for your energy management needs, utility tracking and reporting software, energy training, total waste management services, and a green building certification program. All members are encouraged to contact BOMA BC to see what programs are right for your organization. | | BOMA Strategic Energy Management Assistance
Through the BOMA Energy Management Program (EMP), partially funded by BC Hydro, BOMA is pleased to provide direct assistance to members with strategic energy management planning. BOMA BC members will have access to a qualified energy management professional who will work one-on-one with your organization to develop a strategic energy management plan. These plans are essential for organizations who are addressing the sustainability of their building portfolio and want a structured and effective way to reduce operating costs, improve building performance and reduce the environmental impact of the building. This complimentary service has very limited space, contact BOMA's Energy & Environmental Manager, Daniel Klemky (Daniel@boma.bc.ca), to find out more. | | BOMA uTrack BOMA uTrack (powered by PUMA) is a utility tracking and reporting service offered to all members, at preferred pricing, to help reduce energy costs and track greenhouse gas emissions. Sign up now and start saving energy and money! BOMA uTrack clearly identifies utility spending and savings among multiple sites, prioritizes energy projects by identifying least efficient facilities, and sets achievable targets while easily charting and reporting on the results. For more information please contact Daniel Klemky | | BOMA e-Energy Training The BOMA eEnergy Training course is an interactive online course for professionals to gain a comprehensive understanding of energy management. Participants develop the skills and knowledge to identify energy reduction opportunities in buildings and learn how to develop strategies to encourage stakeholders to save energy. What Course Participants are Saying… “The course is an excellent source for helping to summarize project costs and benefits as part of a capital budget, as well as ‘selling’ the benefits of energy savings projects." "The course went into much more detail than I expected, which I was happy with as I was looking for a better understanding of the technical basics.” “The spreadsheets and links are very beneficial for future use.” For more information or to register for the course, please go to the BOMA Learning Website. | | BOMA BEST® 3.0 BOMA BEST® 3.0 is a national green building certification program developed to address an industry need for realistic standards for energy and environmental performance of existing buildings based on accurate, independently verified information. Currently BOMA BEST® 3.0 provides seven modules for certification (office, light industrial, shopping centre, open air retail, multi-unit residential, health care and universal), these certifications focus on ten key areas of environmental management (energy, water, air quality, comfort, health and wellness, purchasing, custodial, waste, site, and stakeholder engagement). | | BOMA Total Waste Management The Total Waste Management (TWM) Program is a one-stop, cost effective recycling service. The service provides a comprehensive waste audit and custom solutions to meet all BOMA members' recycling needs (paper, cardboard, mixed containers, batteries, electronics, and organics). |
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