Page 3 - Sustainable Developpment
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An approach to developing built environments with materials, structures, and systems that imitate and respect their natural surroundings.
The MEC extensive green roof was installed in 1998 in Toronto, as part of MEC’s commitment to promoting new green building technologies.
Not only do thermal bridges cause the loss of thermal performance of the assembly, but they can also increase the risk for condensation within the asse ...
In a context of climate change, the energy performance of our buildings is no longer a luxury, but a necessity.
GREENGUARD Gold certified insulation is part of the solution for improving indoor air quality. Using materials that emit little or no VOC contributes t ...
SOPRANATURE vegetated systems offer a wide variety of social, economic and environmental benefits to communities.
In a building, each material has its own R-value, which is the thermal resistance in imperial units (or RSI value in metric units). A material’s therma ...
Sustainable development is becoming increasingly important in the construction and building sectors.
Understand the root causes of climate change adaptation measures and see why insulation is one of the solutions to achieve it.
