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Moishe Alexander, Better Building – An estimated 2.1 million households in 10 major surveyed centres indicated they completed renovations last year according to the Renovation and Home Purchase Survey released today by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). The average cost of renovations was approximately $12,100.
The Renovation and Home Purchase Survey reports on actual renovation [...]

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Green Buildings with Bentley’s Energy Performance Series
In a recent webcast entitled “High Performance ‘Green Buildings’ Bentley Systems outlined their new Bentley Energy Performance Series, which encompasses technology derived from some recent acquisitions made in the energy performance space.
 
Huw Roberts spoke about Bentley’s position in the markets they serve: in building performance their global business [...]

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Making houses inside the Arctic Circle more durable and energy-efficient holds challenges — some less obvious than others. Southern Canadians know that winters there are cold and deep. Fewer may understand the roles that a short but intense summer’s heat and accelerated ultraviolet damage play under the 24-hour-a-day “midnight sun” made famous by poet Robert [...]

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