Daily Commercial News Summary The University of Toronto’s massive King’s College Circle Geothermal Project passed a milestone recently with a contract award to GeoSource Energy Inc. of Caledonia, Ont. The project will see several hundred boreholes drilled 200 to 300 metres deep to enable...
McMaster University Daily News Summary McMaster has joined several other leading Canadian universities by pledging to work together on climate change initiatives across invested assets. The unified effort, which involves 15 signatories including McGill, te University of British Columbia...
Mirage News Summary The University of Toronto has unveiled an ambitious Low-Carbon Action Plan that will propel it towards its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 37 per cent from 1990 levels by the year 2030 and put it on a path to becoming a “net-zero” institution. From...
Summary Launched in 2012, the Campus Energy Student Video Contest challenges students from IDEA member institutions to create a short video about their campus energy plant, focused on district energy and/or combined heat and power (CHP). The 2019 winners from the University of Toronto share...
University of Toronto, Education News Canada Summary This project will see an entirely Direct Current (DC) microgrid system installed at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The microgrid will provide the university with power resiliency, will reduce electricity costs, and...
Ron Nyren, UrbanLand Summary As Elizabeth Diller, principal of New York City–based architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, once told an interviewer, “Architecture is a technology. . . . Sometimes we have to use technology as a tool to accomplish something, or technology becomes the...
Fatima Abdulla, The Varsity Summary The University of Toronto plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 37 per cent from its 1990 levels by 2030. This is part of the University Climate Change Coalition commitment, which U of T joined in February. According to Ron Saporta, U of T’s...
The University of New Mexico Summary The University of California (UC) unveiled the University Climate Change Coalition , or UC3, a bold new coalition of 13 leading North American research universities that will prototype a collaborative model designed to help local communities achieve...
Ainslie Cruickshank, Toronto Star June 14, 2017 Summary A federal database shows U of T's downtown campus is one of the city's top polluters, but that doesn't tell us much about its energy efficiency. The University of Toronto’s St. George campus is one of the city’s largest...
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