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EDITOR’S NOTE
JULY/AUGUST 2023 VOLUME 21, NUMBER 4
REMAINS OF THE DAY
EDITOR
John Tenpenny
CONTENT DIRECTOR
Corinne Lynds
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Jen Smith
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Connie Vitello
ART DIRECTOR AND SENIOR DESIGNER
Gordon Alexander
CONTENT CONTRIBUTORS
Barbara Capes, Mark Cardwell,
Tayler Farrell, Talia Gordner, Paul Hughes,
Nick Krukowski, Justin Novick-Faille,
Stevie O’Brien, Andrew Snook, Kailey Sutton
by John Tenpenny
GROWING UP I SPENT SUMMERS at the family cottage in the Land O’Lakes region of
Ontario. My brother and I spent much of our time outdoors, given the fact there
was no television or Internet access. One season, we decided—as teenagers are
wont to do—that we needed a place to hang out sans the parental units. Given
that we were short on cash, but long on time, we decided to build our very own
clubhouse with what we could gather from around the property. Using scrap
wood salvaged from the demolition of the cottage’s previous deck, along with
other materials lying around, and skills passed along to us by our handy father
and grandfather, we pieced together a small shed. Within a few years the space
inside our hangout shrunk as we grew, and we abandoned our creation. But fear
not, our clubhouse lived on as the cottage shed. Three decades later it still serves
us well as storage for everything from the lawnmower to a beer fridge.
While certainly not in the same realm as the large, complex, institutional
buildings featured in this issue, our project can certainly be classified as low-carbon and net-zero.
Rising next to Lake Ontario on George Brown College’s Waterfront Campus,
Limberlost Place (page 12) is the province’s first tall wood building and a model
for mass timber construction. Fittingly, the new building will house the college’s
schools of architectural studies as well as the Brookfield Sustainability Institute.
“The goal is for the building to become a living lab where students will learn
within and from it,” says GBC’s project director, Nerys Rau.
A little further east, on the University of Toronto’s Scarborough Campus
(UTSC), a new residence—built to the Passive House high-performance building standard—is nearly ready to welcome first-year students (page 16).
According to Andrew Arifuzzaman, UTSC’s chief administrative officer, the
structure is designed with a variety of low-energy features.
“The university hopes that by producing a passive house residence at this
scale, developers will see the benefits of this type of construction,” he says.
It’s great to see educational institutions such as GBC and U of T leading the
charge to reduce emissions when it comes to building and maintaining new construction. The partnerships between owners and construction firms like those
getting these impressive buildings completed are key going forward if Canada
hopes to meet its emissions reduction target by 2050.
While my brother and I weren’t thinking about how environmentally friendly
we were being during the construction of our clubhouse, we’ll certainly be
reminded of the importance of sustainable construction materials and methods
next time we grab a cold one from the cottage shed.
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