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Building Forms and Structures

  • 07-Why High-Performance Housing Should Lower Costs — Not Increase Them
    text, photo
  • 09-Why Simpler Buildings Often Perform Better
    text, photo
  • 12-Lessons From Delivering Housing in Small Mountain Communities
    text, photo
  • Building Exteriors and Ground Systems: Integrating Design, Resilience, and Livability - Under review
  • Building Form and Structural Strategies for Enhanced Performance - Under Review
  • Retrofitting with House-as-a-System Approach
    6 units combined to make a 3.5 hour online course. These are the PDFs for each unit.
  • Steel the Show: Understanding the Potential for Steel Reuse in Canada
    blogpost, text
  • Values-based approaches to climate-resilient housing solutions
    text, photos, figures, graphics
  • Whole-System Thinking in Sustainable Building Design
    blogpost
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Best Practices in Building Systems
Living Compendium beta version 2026

This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada through the Research and Knowledge Initiative (RKI), delivered and supported by Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada to advance housing and infrastructure projects across the country.

Our team works across the unceded territories of many Indigenous Peoples, including the Algonquin Anishinaabe (Ottawa), Mississaugas of the Credit, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat (Toronto), Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh (Vancouver), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Coquitlam), lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples (Victoria), and the Tla-o-qui-aht and Nuu-chah-nulth Nations (Tofino).

We recognize that land acknowledgment is not the work itself, but a reminder of our ongoing responsibilities—relational, material, and ethical—to the peoples and places that continue to steward these lands.

We commit to unsettling extractive habits in our work and to walking, with humility, toward deeper accountability.


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