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3.5 Million More New Homes by 2030

Westeck News

million more new homes by 2030 Canada’s National Housing Agency says progress is being made on building enough housing to fix the country’s affordability gap, but almost 3.5 million new housing units by 2030. Quebec needs an estimated 860,000 units, 240,000 more than last year; B.C. million new units.

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Fighting the Air Conditioning Doom Loop with Innovation & Common Sense

Community Architect

Heat pumps and air conditioners are power hungry, especially in the version that uses compressors according to the invention of Mr Carrier in 1902 which pretty much was the end of innovation with evaporative cooling towers and compressed coolants still being the dominant methods for cooling anything. No such system is on the market yet.

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Deep Retrofit Supply Chain Waiting For More Support

Westeck News

In 2023, Canada’s top ten weather events racked up an estimated $3.1 Recommendation 3: Work with utilities and other levels of government to increase grants and incentives to help reduce the high cost of innovative, low-carbon technologies used in deep retrofits that is holding back market growth.

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Fast Tracked

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Reporting methodologies can vary based on the unit of measurement, estimated project life span, or how a project’s area is defined. The group, which is led by the Carbon Leadership Forum, Architecture 2030, Building Transparency, the U.S. They could talk about the total carbon footprint of the concrete used.

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Dementia Friendly Project by IMMORTAL

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According to Alzheimer’s Disease International, someone in the world develops dementia every 3 seconds and it is estimated that by 2030 this number could very well reach 78 million and that much of the increase will be in developing countries – that is a scary statistic.

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"Timber alone cannot get us out of this mess"

Deezen

On the other, UN-Habitat estimates that 3 billion people need adequate housing by 2030, with demand for 96,000 new homes every day (that's more than one per second), giving us a clear moral responsibility to build to improve people's lives. The IPCC states that to give us a 50 per cent chance of limiting global warming to 1.5

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Sara Kulturhus Centre "unleashed a world of previously unimagined design possibilities"

Deezen

By combining the local timber tradition with innovative technology and engineering, the city's wood heritage is now being brought into a new era," said project architect Maria Orvesten. With its 20 storeys, Sara Kulturhus Centre is not only Skellefteå's new landmark – it is also one of the world's tallest wooden buildings," she told Dezeen.

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