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We are happy to announce that the 7th Active House Symposium will be held in Toronto, Canada on September 16th and 17th at Evergreen Brick Works. There will be two full days of exciting eye opening conversations, presentations, education, and [...]

OTTAWA – The House of Commons has passed a motion declaring a national climate emergency, and supporting Canada’s commitment to meet the Paris Agreement emissions targets. Conservative MPs voted against the motion, but it still passed 186-63 [...]

How do we simultaneously design for the extremes of a changed climate and build in a way to reverse those changes? At the 2019 Green Building Festival, a range of expert designers and builders will look at both simple and complex strategies, [...]

The federal government says thousands of Toronto-area families could get a hand onto the property ladder under a new shared-equity mortgage program even though it limits the maximum eligible home value to $560,000 — a tough price point to hit in [...]

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, [...]