Passive House Canada - Achieving the Passive House Standard for Existing Buildings Buildings shape the lives, health and wellbeing of individuals and communities. Unfortunately, too many of the buildings across Canada often have significant problems: from drafty building envelopes, to mold and moisture problems, to inefficient HVAC systems. The Passive House standard has evolved over…  Read more

BCIT - XZEB 1160 – Introduction to Embodied Carbon & Whole-Building Life Cycle Assessments This course introduces the life cycle assessment (LCA) technical fundamentals needed to effectively practice of whole-building LCA and use whole-building LCA results and environmental product declarations (EPDs). Learners will develop their understanding of LCA standards, methods, and data in the course.…  Read more

Passive House Canada - 90: Introduction to Passive House High Performance Buildings This is an introductory course on embodied carbon geared towards construction professionals and policy makers. The course provides a high-level overview of the importance of embodied carbon, how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with the built environment, as well as a summary…  Read more

Cornerstone Building Brands - Update on Expected Changes in the 2020 National Model Codes This presentation will cover changes made to the recently published 2020 National Model Codes that include some significant improvements regarding protection of windows in Part 9 buildings, and combustible window sashes and frames in buildings of noncombustible construction. Date: September 13…  Read more

This presentation will cover changes made to the recently published 2020 National Model Codes that include some significant improvements regarding protection of windows in Part 9 buildings, and combustible window sashes and frames in buildings of noncombustible construction Dates: September 13 Time: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Location: Online Cost: free Learning Units (LUs): 1 Core Register: Click here

Cascadia Windows & Doors - Tackling Window Pain: Understanding the Benefits of High-Performance Fenestration As jurisdictions across North America introduce more stringent building energy performance standards (BEPS)—such as the BC Step Code and Seattle 2018 update—developers, architects, and contractors are left wondering the best way to meet the new benchmarks while controlling costs. This balance…  Read more

RAIC - RAIC Promoting Equity and Justice Advisory Committee presents - The Sum of all Parts: Disability Culture as a key component of Inclusive Design This session offers an opportunity to explore our individual and collective relationships to the concept and lived experience of disability. Does the architectural practice hold biases against disability? How is…  Read more

Engineers and Geoscientists BC - Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Short Course The course provides the participants with the fundamental concepts of geotechnical earthquake engineering, and expands those to the key issues related to dynamic soil properties, local site effects and seismic site response analysis, soil liquefaction during earthquakes and the related assessments, seismic slope stability, basics…  Read more

Passive House Canada - PHPP10 (New Features) In this PHPP v10 course, participants will receive information on the updates seen to the recent update from PHPP v9.6 to PHPP v10. Participants will learn through lecture and in-class exercises the main aspects of the PHPP software which have undergone changes with the latest version. This course…  Read more

Keynote speech with world renowned urban planner and author Alain Bertaud. Alain Bertaud is the former Chief Urban Planner of the World Bank and author of the internationally acclaimed book Order Without Design. Alain will be sharing his insights from his five decades of planning cities starting with his first job working for le Corbusier…  Read more