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(Article courtesy the Financial Post) OTTAWA — Government officials are crafting tougher building codes that could make both new homes and renovations of existing properties more costly in coming years, part of Ottawa’s wider plan to cut [...]

Earlier this month, CHBA CEO Kevin Lee testified before the Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources as part of its study on the effects of transitioning to a low carbon economy. Over the fall the Committee will be [...]

(BILD President and CEO Bryan Tuckey authors a series of newspaper columns focusing on key industry issues. They appear on Thursdays in Metro News and on Saturdays in the Toronto Sun and the Toronto Star’s New In Homes section.) By Bryan [...]

Toronto – London, ON’s CCR Building & Remodeling took home the EnerQuality Environmental Stewardship Award at the London Home Builders’ Association Awards of Excellence on October 12, 2017. The self-nominated award is sponsored by [...]

Matt Farrell, President, Ontario Building Officials Association; Joe Vaccaro, CEO, Ontario Home Builders’ Association; Alan Shaw, OBOA Executive; Jason Schmidt-Shoukri, Director of Building Standards, and Chief Building Official, City of Vaughan; [...]

On October 24, Natural Resources Canada is holding the annual ENERGY STAR^® Day, celebrating the strides Canadians have made in saving energy. NRCan is inviting all participants and users - including ENERGY STAR^® builders - to join the party, in [...]

Tridel wins Home Builder of the Year at the OHBA Awards of Distinction 2017. (Photo courtesy OHBA.) Doug Tarry Homes, winner of Project of the Year (Low-Rise) for Project Hope. (Photo courtesy OHBA.) The Ontario Home Builders' Association handed [...]

(Article and imagery courtesy Toronto Atmospheric Fund) Students from Ryerson University and the University of Toronto recently took the grand prize at the 2017 U.S. Department of Energy’s fourth annual Race to Zero Student Design Competition-a [...]

(BILD President and CEO Bryan Tuckey authors a series of newspaper columns focusing on key industry issues. They appear on Thursdays in Metro News and on Saturdays in the Toronto Sun and the Toronto Star's New In Homes section.) By Bryan Tuckey, [...]

Golara Mehrpour, born & raised in Shiraz, Iran, moved to Canada in September 2013, and has just joined EnerQuality as our new QA program coordinator. After a high school and university career intimidating opposing teams as a basketball [...]