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This Friday, June 21st, is the deadline to submit your nominations for the 2019 Ontario Home Builders' Association's Awards of Distinction. Since 1991, OHBA Awards of Distinction (AoD) recognizes the creativity, innovation and talent of land [...]

OTTAWA—A Liberal MP from Toronto is urging the federal government to ramp up its fight against climate change, and on June 5 tabled a bill in the House of Commons that would commit Canada to effectively eliminate national greenhouse gas emissions [...]

Canada’s energy efficiency sector accounted for more than twice as many jobs as oil and gas in 2018, with 436,000 permanent positions, and is on track to create about three times as many new positions as fossils are at risk of losing in 2019, [...]

Small businesses in the four provinces with a national carbon price will share $1.4 billion over the next four years to help them reduce their energy use but business-owners say they are getting the short end of the rebate stick. Environment [...]

It’s been a busy awards season for EnerQuality builders, raking in more than 50 awards in five HBA locals and two national programs. The year started off particularly well for Branthaven, taking seven trophies at the Hamilton-Halton HBA Awards [...]

May 2nd saw the release of the Ontario Government's Housing Supply Action Plan (“More Homes, More Choice”) by the Honourable Steve Clark, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing (MMAH). The  announcement was a significant milestone following [...]

EnerQuality is excited to sponsor OHBA's upcoming four-day Housing Tour to Denmark and Sweden, May 12-16. OHBA and EnerQuality will be travelling with a small group of builder and developer members to Copenhagen and Malmo, two of the most [...]

From how concrete is mixed for road construction, to roofing standards enabling buildings to withstand stronger storms and plans to help homeowners manage increased flooding, Canada's building rules are being rewritten due to climate change, [...]

Ontario's environmental commissioner issued dire warnings Wednesday about the "frightening" state of climate policy in the province as she delivered her office's last report. The Progressive Conservative government announced last fall that it was [...]

TORONTO – February 28, 2019.    The change-makers in the Ontario building industry gathered at the Toronto Marriott Markham yesterday for the 2018 EQ Awards. Together, the 250 guests, including Markham Mayor Frank Scarpitti, celebrated 20 years [...]

An injection of federal green energy money will make a highrise in the heart of the province’s first net-zero community — one that produces as much energy of it consumes — at least 25 per cent more energy efficient, the president of the [...]

This year’s recipient of the EnerQuality Impact Award for long-term commitment to green building practices is Ottawa’s Tamarack Homes. The award, being presented on February 28, 2019, at the EQ Awards Gala at the Toronto Markham Marriott, [...]