News | | Sep 2, 2010

Shoppers Drug Mart opened its new energy-efficient store in Woodbridge, one of more than 100 Shoppers Drug Mart stores reducing their environmental footprint by building in energy-efficiency measures early in the store design.   “We’re proud to work with companies like Shoppers Drug Mart to help them improve energy efficiency,” said ...

News | | Aug 31, 2010

Onset, a supplier of data loggers, announced a new online professional training course on Data Loggers for Performance Monitoring.   Presented by energy consultant and educator Mark Stetz, P.E., of Stetz Consulting, LLC, the four-hour online course targets energy professionals looking to improve building commissioning and diagnostics capabilities, obtain better information during energy audits, and...

News | | Aug 17, 2010

Schneider Electric, a company specializing in energy management, announced the appointment of Alan Taaffe as manager, Marketing and Business Development of its newly formed Buildings business in Canada.   In his new role, Taaffe will be responsible for marketing and strategic programs related to Building Automation and Security. Taaffe was recently the manager of Marketing and Business De...

News | | Aug 10, 2010

Frito Lay Canada, a division of PepsiCo Canada, is investing more than $2 million in its New Minas operations to upgrade production equipment and make the facility more environmentally sustainable. Frito Lay Canada’s New Minas facility is a major employer in the Nova Scotia with about 140 full-time and hourly employees. The pro...

News | | Aug 2, 2010

The Centennial Energy Institute (CEI), in collaboration with respected industry partners, is offering the Industrial and Buildings Energy eXpertise (IBEX) program. This self-paced, online energy-management training program is based on the UK Energy Institute’s Training in Energy Management Through Open Learning (TEMOL) program, which has been expanded to facility and industrial energy ...

News | | Jul 7, 2010

New Brunswick is on track to deliver on the commitments made in the New Brunswick Climate Change Action Plan (NBCCAP), according to a provincial government news release. Environment Minister Rick Miles released the third progress report on the action plan on June 29 at a news conference in Fredericton.   “During the third year of impl...

Features | Erik Wolfe | Jul 28, 2010

Suppose your CEO calls tomorrow and asks, “What are we doing about power consumption?” What will you say?   Reducing consumption by turning off computer monitors and equipment requires lifestyle changes to be adopted through the entire organization. These are easy choices to make, but they are hard to implement and substantial return on investme...

Features | John Gilson | Jun 21, 2010

Last week Panduit invited Energy Management to take part in celebrating the opening of its new world headquarters (WHQ) in Tinley Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Guests from around the world were invited to tour the cutting-edge facility, as well as take part in informing keynote speeches and breakout sessions, much of it centred around sustainabili...

Features | John Gilson | Jun 9, 2010

This week the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) is hosting its 3rd Annual National Conference at the recently renovated Vancouver Convention Centre. The event, which runs from June 8-10, is all about LEED and sustainable construction. BC Hydro’s Deputy CEO Bev Van Ruyven—named one of Canada’s most powerful women—is serving as Honourary Conference Chair, whi...

Features | Paul Hargest | May 15, 2010

There was a time when the term LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) was reserved almost solely for construction-related manuals and trade publications. Not so anymore. Take the example of a February 2009 Toronto Star headline, “LEED-ing the way”, for a story about Canada's first residential development built entirely to LEED Platinum s...

Features | Robert Colman | Feb 24, 2010

Roofs are an important part of the sustainability discussion. Buildings account for about 30 per cent of energy consumed and about 27 per cent of all greenhouse gases created in Canada. Roofs in cities contribute to the urban heat island, which basically makes cities between 2-5 degrees Celsius warmer than ...

Features | Robert Colman | Feb 10, 2010

Minto has made a name for itself as a leader in green building practices by adopting  innovative technologies, management practices, and heavy promotion of sustainable buildings. The company is helping to bring green building to the mainstream quickly – and with style. One of the company’s recent condominium developments, Minto ...

Columns | Ken Sinclair | Jul 7, 2010

I see virtualization as the next big thing. Through integrated connected virtualization, the world of large buildings will soon view everything connected differently. New web-based services architected in the cloud are the new business models evolving in the many articles and interviews in our AutomatedBuildings.com website.   We must unhinge our minds and find new pivot...

Columns | Ken Sinclair | Jun 18, 2010

After returning from a very successful ConnectivityWeek—with a record attendance of 1,300 energy and business leaders gathered in Santa Clara, CA—I am now convinced more than ever that building automation and the grid will be the first major demonstrations of a truly smart grid. You will see that this conclusion ...

Columns | Stephen Carpenter | Jun 9, 2010

The long-awaited revision to the Canadian LEED-NC rating system is finally here. With it come new requirements for building teams striving to achieve this sought-after certification, as well as new opportunities to push the envelope when it comes to greener buildings. The building industry, in particular LEED consultants, must quickly learn the companio...

Columns | Ken Sinclair | Apr 29, 2010

One great place for you to build your connections and networks with people who are radically changing the world is ConnectivityWeek. It offers an opportunity to create new networks and strengthen existing ones while rubbing shoulders with those that are redefining the Smart Grid, wireless, Web services, energy management, open ...

Columns | Ken Sinclair | Mar 24, 2010

A dynamic duo of automated building tools is set to eliminate complex installations and provide self set-up, connection, and commissioning while self-populating the needed information for Web deployment. To understand this best, I’d like you to consider the history of automated building technology. In 1975, I worked on a Direct ...

Columns | Ken Sinclair | Feb 10, 2010

We just returned from a very successful Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition - AHR Expo - in Orlando, and the buzz was all about how powerful cloud-based web services are radically changing building automation industry. Several vendors demonstrated augmented realities with close-coupled web services that provided iPhone-type mind expanding services at ...