Beaconsfield Yacht Club

Beaconsfield, Quebec Building Description This modest building was built in 1810 as a private residence. It was turned into a vineyard known as “the Homestead” in 1874, and it currently houses the Beaconsfield Yacht Club. Constructed of load-bearing limestone with a wood-framed roof, the structure displays many traditional

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Gemini House

Toronto, Ontario The Gemini House is an ongoing experimental project funded by The University of Toronto to test the GEMINI NTED housing concept developed by researchers at University of Toronto and Ryerson University. Early data suggests the home reduces energy consumption to 1/3 that of

Gemini House2026-07-10T13:53:38-04:00

Building Resilience: Practical Guidelines for the Retrofit and Rehabilitation of Buildings in Canada serves as a “sustainable building toolkit” that will enhance understanding of the environmental benefits of heritage conservation and of the strong interrelationship between natural and built heritage conservation. Intended as a useful set of best practices, the guidelines in Building Resilience can be applied to existing and traditionally constructed buildings as well as
formally recognized heritage places.

These guidelines are primarily aimed at assisting designers, owners, and builders in providing existing buildings with increased levels of sustainability while protecting character-defining elements and, thus, their heritage value. The guidelines are also intended for a broader audience of architects, building developers, owners, custodians and managers, contractors, crafts and trades people, energy advisers and sustainability specialists, engineers, heritage professionals, and officials responsible for built heritage and the existing built environment at all jurisdictional levels.

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Building Resilience: Practical Guidelines for the Retrofit and Rehabilitation of Buildings in Canada serves as a “sustainable building toolkit” that will enhance understanding of the environmental benefits of heritage conservation and of the strong interrelationship between natural and built heritage conservation.

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