Making a wave

The facade of the Cowan Recreation Centre at RBJ Schlegel Park is a stunning construction of stock steel panels

Standing strong at 220,000 square feet, the Cowan Recreation Centre at RBJ Schlegel Park is the crowning jewel of Kitchener, Ontario’s new fitness and activities hub: a massive, covered rec centre to complement the park’s numerous basketball courts, tennis courts, soccer fields, and a cricket field. The Centre contains a FIFA-regulation soccer field, a full aquatics centre, and a gymnasium, al…

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From the Ground Up

Steel paneling empowered a solo builder to build his dream home

Who among us hasn’t doodled our dream home on the back of a scrap piece of paper? For most of us (unless you grew up to become an architect), those childhood drawings are as close as we come to making our dreams a reality. But then there are people like Matej H. Anthony, who are not content to let their dreams remain on their pages. When he and his partner moved to their “forever home”, A…

Growing Good

Steel shells incubate incredibly productive microfarms

A cold January morning on the Northumberland Strait — the “north coast” of winter-laden Nova Scotia —seems like a strange time to open a new farm. But then again, the new Summer Street Farm isn’t your typical plants-in-the-ground farm at all. Instead, the farm can be found inside a metal box wrapped in colourful steel paneling. The hydroponic farm is designed by Growcer, an Ottawa-based…

LEEDing the Way

Groupe Montoni wants their Écoparcs to be the model others strive towards 

LEED shouldn’t be a new term to anyone working in the Canadian construction industry. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standard is an internationally recognized rubric that certifies whether a building has achieved various levels of environmental milestones. Many cities across the country, including Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa, have mandated that new builds, retrofits, and de…

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Sustainable Steel makes ambitious projects possible

Steelmakers and fabricators across North America are looking to solve the sustainability puzzle: how to hit ambitious embodied carbon targets in new and upcoming mega-projects. In the case of the recently completed construction of a new customer distribution centre in Hamilton, stringent carbon requirements required some out-of-the-box thinking. Steel fabricator Canam turned to new XCarb® stee…

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