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Edmonton Journal Summary Blatchford is about to undergo a growth spurt. Seven apartment buildings, ranging between four storeys and six storeys, are either in their current stages of development or in the planning stages. Construction has ...

Corporate Knights Summary Markham, Ontario, in the 1990s was a city in need of a pivot: away from an era of increasing sprawl and toward denser neighbourhoods with better urban planning. The long-term pressures of climate change and the energy transition ...

Power Magazine Summary When Hurricane Sandy in 2012 knocked out power in Lower Manhattan for nearly a week, New York University’s (NYU’s) Washington Square campus stayed operational because it was not relying on the grid. A 13.4-MW cogeneration plant, ...

BRG Summary In the commercial sector — offices, hotels, malls, hospitals, and airports — centralised systems (chillers, air handling units (AHUs), and packaged rooftop units) have been the default specification for large buildings for well over a ...

The Guardian Summary As heatwaves intensify across Europe, most cities are reaching for a familiar fix of more air conditioning. But in 1990s Paris, planning began for a different kind of solution: one of the world’s largest district cooling networks. ...