• BUILDING CODES FOR RETROFITS
• BUILDING TOURS EVERY THURSDAY IN OCTOBER
• EXPERTISE RELATED TO HOUSING, BUILDINGS - TENDER NOTICE
• MANITOBA COMMUNITY RECYCLING & WASTE REDUCTION FORUM
• MEIA EMERGING ISSUES CONFERENCE
• SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING INDUSTRY - ACADEMIA ENGAGEMENT TABLE
• ENERGY EFFICIENCY DAY
• PODCAST RECOMMENDATION
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The first building tour is coming up on Thursday October 7th at noon.  This is your chance to see a district heating plant powered by bio-fuel.

Northlands Dënesųłiné First Nation is a "winter road / diesel dependent" community. All of the heating and electricity in the community depends upon the arrival of truckloads of diesel fuel on the annual winter road.

The biofuel district heating system replaces about 30% of the heating fuel with burnt wood - wood from the surrounding area that has been killed by natural forest fire and harvested with local labour.

• Building Name: Biomass / District Heating Plant & Harvesting Operation
• Building Location: Northlands Dënesųłiné First Nation
• Year Built: 2019
• Key Sustainable Feature: Biofuel district heating system using local wood
• Building Use: heating plant

Tour the site where harvested wood is piled and stored in the log yard adjacent to the biomass plant building. Go behind the scenes of the biomass building to get up close to the two boilers and pumps that move heated glycol to the school and other buildings in the district heating system.  Have questions?  This will be a great time to ask them.

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TOUR GUIDE - Bruce Duggan - Boke Consulting

Bruce Duggan is an Associate Professor of Management at the Buller School of Business at Providence University College & Seminary.

He is the President of Boke Consulting and, in that role, is Project Lead for Aki Energy on ERAAES, an integrated soil remediation and alternative energy project for Northlands Dënesųłiné First Nation. He also helps lead the Waste & Derelict Scrap Metal Collection initiative for the Keewatin Tribal Council, Northlands Dënesųłiné First Nation, Barren Lands First Nation, and Sayisi Dene First Nation. He has also done studies on the feasibility of using biomass to heat community buildings in three other Manitoba First Nations. Bruce also a member of the Board of Directors of the Manitoba Environmental Industries Association and a Steering Committee member of 50by30.

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BUILDING CODES FOR RETROFITS

Action on Canada’s retrofit code, known as Alterations to Existing Buildings (AEB), kicked off again in late August with the first meeting of the reconvened Joint Task Group (JTG-AEB). This task group brought together members of both the Canadian Commission on Building and Fire Codes (CCBFC) and the Provincial/Territorial Policy Advisory Committee on Codes (PTPACC).

While the bulk of the meeting dealt with the polices and procedures that would guide the task group’s activities through the development of the AEB, one inescapable note tucked within the agenda was the expected delivery date of the national retrofit code in 2030.

This timeline is markedly different than the one put forward in the 2016 Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change (PCF) in which federal, provincial, and territorial governments committed, “to develop a model code for existing buildings by 2022, with the goal that provinces and territories adopt the code.”

BUILDING TOURS EVERY THURSDAY IN OCTOBER

EXPERTISE RELATED TO HOUSING, BUILDINGS - TENDER NOTICE

MANITOBA COMMUNITY RECYCLING & WASTE REDUCTION FORUM

MEIA EMERGING ISSUES CONFERENCE

Wednesday, November 24
8:00 am – 4:30 pm with cocktail reception to follow
Canad Inns Destination Centre Polo Park 1405 St Matthews Ave

Featuring Keynote Speaker Linda Coady, Executive Director of the Pembina Institute, this year’s conference will focus on pathways to a net-zero future, focusing on the following topics:

• Environmental Social Governance
• Economic and Environmental Recovery
• Indigenous Pathways to Sustainability
• The Next Generation: Students in Environmental Studies
• Local Examples of Net-Zero and Carbon Greenhouse Gas Awareness

SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING INDUSTRY - ACADEMIA ENGAGEMENT TABLE

ENERGY EFFICIENCY DAY

PODCAST RECOMMENDATION

Jules graduated from architecture school in Montreal Canada and decided to take a different path after he graduated. He went to Brazil to see his father, and quickly fell in love with bamboo. Then he moved to Bali to gain the relevant skills and expertise to become a bamboo architect because he believes bamboo is the perfect ambassador to introduce more people to the power of sustainable architecture. This podcast is about his journey to understanding the full capacity of bamboo as a building material

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