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Apr 15, 2024
BSI Newsletter: Issue 2

The second edition of the Brookfield Sustainability Institute Newsletter is now available! Click here to learn more!

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Mar 27, 2024

Partnership Announcement Between Canadian Wood Council and Brookfield Sustainability Institute

The Canadian Wood Council (CWC) and George Brown College’s Brookfield Sustainability Institute (BSI) are thrilled to announce a strategic partnership ...

Collaboration
Nov 22, 2023

BSI Newsletter: Issue 1

The inaugural Brookfield Sustainability Institute Newsletter is now available! Click here to learn more!

NewsletterLaunch
Sep 6, 2023

The Intelligent Community: Designing for Sustainability in the Community of the Future (Part 2)

In part 2, Chairman and CEO of Toronto’s Institute Without Boundaries and now the Brookfield Sustainability Institute Luigi Ferrara talks about sustainability, why we are far away ...

EcoUrban
CityRedevelopment
Aug 27, 2023

InfraIntelligence: Sustainable Construction

The construction of sustainable, net-zero buildings will play a significant role in helping Canada reach its goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. The use of materials such as mass timber ...

EcoBuild
ZeroCarbon
Aug 23, 2023

The Intelligent Community: Luigi Ferrara, CEO, Brookfield Sustainability Institute (Part 1)

Chairman and CEO of Toronto’s Institute Without Boundaries and now the Brookfield Sustainability Institute Luigi Ferrara dives deep into how cities are being rebuilt and redesigned for sustainability and ...

EcoUrban
CityRedevelopment
Aug 23, 2023

The Decibel: The Problem with Building More Housing

Canada needs a lot of housing – and the Liberal government is making this a priority at their cabinet retreat this week. But there are concerns that if we keep building new homes using current materials and practices, it could lead to ...

SustainableHousing
EcoConstruction
Aug 22, 2023

Ontario’s First Mass Timber, Net-Zero Institutional Building Closer to Completion

Limberlost Place, Ontario’s first mass-timber, net-zero carbon emissions institutional building, has now reached the highest point in construction. The final wood and steel beams were installed in ...

ConstructionMilestone
MassTimber
Jul 24, 2023

Smart, Real-World Solutions for Tackling Climate Change

Rising temperatures, melting glaciers, treacherous storms—the impacts of climate change are real and happening right now. It’s no longer ...

Sustainability
ClimateChange
Jun 20, 2023

George Brown College’s Limberlost Place

Toronto architect Mike Love says he’d be proud to be involved with any of the many prestigious building projects that are going on right now in the heart of his hometown. But if he had to choose one ...

LimberlostPlace
TimberInnovation
Jun 4, 2023

John Stackhouse and Gervan Fearon: Canada Needs a Greenprint for the Next Housing Boom

By 2030, we need nearly six million new homes to make housing more affordable for the current generation and accommodate the next one. But if we build those homes ...

NetZero
HighRiseLowCarbon
May 26, 2023

George Brown College Opens Sustainability Institute

George Brown College has launched the Brookfield Sustainability Institute (BSI) to promote sustainable communities through education and global cooperation, which will be ...

GBC
Sustainability
May 16, 2023

High Rise, Low Carbon: Canada's $40 Billion Net Zero Building Challenge

Buildings have long been at the heart of Canada’s emissions problem. Heated by gas furnaces, powered by coal-fired electricity, and supported by emissions-heavy concrete foundations, our buildings are ...

NetZero
HighRiseLowCarbon
May 16, 2023

Canada's Housing Goals Will Spike Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Says RBC Report

Millions of new homes are needed over the next few years, but they will have a huge impact on Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions — and we need to start thinking about ...

NetZero
HighRiseLowCarbon
May 8, 2023

Flashy Features Emerge as Timber-Framed Limberlost Place Rises on Queens Quay

Over the last decade, Toronto’s East Bayfront community has been the focal point of a drastic waterfront revitalization effort. More recently the eastern-Downtown Waterfront area has emerged as a highly designed and ...

LimberlostPlace
CampusGrowth
Apr 25, 2023

Mass Timber Pedestrian Bridge Installed at George Brown College’s Limberlost Place

PCL announced a significant construction milestone at George Brown College’s Limberlost Place with the installation of a two-storey mass timber pedestrian bridge that was ...

TimberInnovation
BuildSuccess
Apr 21, 2023

Climate Change Action Speaks Louder than Words at George Brown College

More than 50 years after the first Earth Day, the alarm bells are sounding louder than ever, and the effects of real-time climate change are here. The projections are concerning, and we’ve got no time to waste. That’s why ...

MassTimber
Sustainability
Apr 19, 2023

Video: PCL Installs Mass-timber Pedestrian Bridge for George Brown College

PCL has celebrated a milestone in the construction of George Brown College’s (GBC’s) Limberlost Place on Toronto’s waterfront, with the installation of a two-storey mass-timber pedestrian bridge 65 ft above street level. The bridge connects ...

MassTimber
Sustainability
Apr 19, 2023

Toronto Is Getting a Cool New Pedestrian Bridge Made Almost Entirely Out of Wood

Toronto has entered into the age of modern mass timber construction, and the first few ultra-sustainable, net-zero buildings in this new wave are already being woven into the urban fabric. George Brown College's Limberlost Place will ...

MassTimber
Sustainability
Apr 18, 2023

2023 RAIC Awards: Limberlost Place

Designed by the joint venture of Moriyama Teshima Architects and Acton Ostry Architects, Limberlost Place (formerly known as “The Arbour”) is a landmark project for low embodied carbon and high energy ...

TimberLandmark
SustainableDesign
Jan 31, 2023

Big Lumber on the Toronto Waterfront

While I don’t give tours of post-industrial Scarborough, on the few occasions I’ve driven past the intersection of Eglinton Ave. E. and Thermos Rd. with a passenger, I’ve pulled over and waxed poetic about the enormous, namesake factory that once ...

LimberlostBuilding
MassTimber
Aug 4, 2022

Limberlost Place, George Brown College’s New Mass-Timber Building, Short-Listed for Prestigious 2022 World Architecture Festival Award and Winner of Wafx Award

Limberlost Place is George Brown College’s 10-storey mass-timber building currently under construction at ...

LimberlostPlace
MassTimberBuilding
Jul 29, 2022

George Brown College Donors and Supporters See Construction Progress Firsthand during Tours of Limberlost Place Site

With construction well underway on our mass-timber building, we invited special guests to tour the site of what will soon become an iconic landmark on ...

MassTimber
Sustainability
May 10, 2022

Dean Luigi Ferrara Named Inaugural Chair and CEO of George Brown College’s Brookfield Sustainability Institute at Limberlost Place

Excitement and anticipation are beginning to ramp up as construction forges ahead on Limberlost Place, George Brown’s new 10-storey, mass-timber, ...

MassTimber
Sustainability
Dec 14, 2021

George Brown College Receives Historic Donation as We Break Ground on Tall-Wood Building, Limberlost Place

George Brown College officially broke ground on what promises to be an iconic addition to our Waterfront Campus and to the Toronto skyline. With Limberlost Place, we are raising ...

MassTimber
Sustainability

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