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Air Tightness at Trent Forensics Zero Carbon building

by Chris Magwood | Feb 11, 2021 | Construction Blogs, Embodied Carbon, High performance HVAC, Sustainable Building Projects, Trent University Zero Carbon Forensics Facility

The Trent Forensics Zero Carbon project requires a net zero energy and carbon performance in order to be certified by the International Living Future Institute’s Zero Carbon Certification program. For a large institutional facility to reach that goal we needed...

Low Carbon Foundation for Trent University Forensics Building

by Chris Magwood | Feb 11, 2021 | Construction Blogs, Embodied Carbon, Hempcrete, Natural building materials and techniques, Sustainable Building Projects, Trent University Zero Carbon Forensics Facility

In order for the Trent Forensics Facility to meet its Zero Carbon goals, choosing low-carbon foundation materials was important. Foundations are typically the most carbon-intensive portion of a building because the typical materials are all high emitters. Concrete and...

Trent University Zero Carbon Forensics Science Building

by Chris Magwood | Feb 11, 2021 | Construction Blogs, Embodied Carbon, Hempcrete, High performance HVAC, Sustainable Building Projects, Trent University Zero Carbon Forensics Facility

When Trent University set out to design a Forensics Crime Scene facility, the building would be the first of its kind on a Canadian university campus. But the innovation didn’t stop there: the building would also be the first certified Zero Carbon building in...

Carbon drawdown now!

by Jen Feigin | Jul 8, 2019 | Embodied Carbon

Carbon drawdown now! Endeavour’s Chris Magwood began researching the embodied carbon of building materials while working on the book Making Better Buildings in 2013. It has become something of an obsession ever since! Chris published his Master’s...

Zero House Slide Show

by Jen Feigin | Jan 9, 2019 | Construction Blogs, Embodied Carbon, Straw bale building, Sustainable Building & Design program, Zero House prefab

Zero House was Endeavour’s most ambitious project. Designed by students and faculty of the Architectural Science program at Ryerson University, Endeavour undertook the transformation of the design into a fully modular, prefabricated building that would be zero...

Building for climate drawdown

by Jen Feigin | Dec 11, 2018 | Embodied Carbon, Thoughts on Building

Endeavour Centre is committed to helping reverse climate change by creating buildings that are carbon capture and storage devices. Our buildings store more carbon in their materials than was emitted in making the materials… climate positive building. Add this to...

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Air Tightness at Trent Forensics Zero Carbon building

Low Carbon Foundation for Trent University Forensics Building

Trent University Zero Carbon Forensics Science Building

Carbon drawdown now!

Zero House Slide Show

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