The Greenroom Podcast

Getting to Know Brynn Nheiley

Welcome to episode 12 of Sustainable Buildings Canada’s Greenroom podcast. We’re thrilled to sit down with Brynn Nheiley, SBC’s new executive director. Brynn shares details about her background as a municipal planner and architectural professional, discusses her new mandate and what she sees as SBC’s biggest opportunities and most significant challenges. Hope you enjoy!

Residential Home Energy Retrofit

In our latest episode of the Greenroom podcast, we discuss the benefits and challenges of energy retrofitting residential homes. We’re joined by Sarah Grant, founder at Goldfinch Energy, Andrew Hellebust, president and senior engineer at Rivercourt Engineering, Ed Marion, owner and operator of Passive House Ontario, and Bob Bach, professional engineer and expert in mechanical system design as well as co-founder of Sustainable Buildings Canada.

Retrofitting Heritage Buildings

Today’s episode will focus on best practices and key considerations when deep retrofitting a heritage building. We’ll zero in on the high-profile work KingSett Capital has underway with the Royal York Hotel in Toronto and discuss ways their approach and insights can be applied to other heritage projects and building types including multi-residential.  
Guests:
Kit Milnes, vice president, sustainability & resilience at KingSett Capital.
Scott Armstrong, senior facade specialist, building sciences at WSP.
Carly Connor, senior associate, at Walter P Moore.

Air Tightness

Today’s episode will focus on the evolution of air tightness technology and its role in improving the overall energy performance of a building. We’re going to talk about air tightness relative to new building code requirements but also when this technology makes sense for existing buildings and the associated financial benefits. We’ll also provide some insight on best practices and tips on how building professionals can approach air tightness solutions with their clients.
Guests: Dr. Randy Van Straaten, and Josh Lewis.

ESG in Commercial Real Estate

We’re thrilled to be hosting another episode of The Green Room podcast. Today’s episode will focus on how real estate companies are approaching their environment social and governance commitments.
We are joined by Sarah Keyes, CEO of consulting firm ESG Global Advisors; Lee Hodgkinson, head of sustainability and Technical Services at DREAM; and Scott Rouse, managing partner of Energy@Work, an energy management consulting company based in Toronto.

City of Toronto Update

In this episode, we sit down with Duncan MacLellan & Devon Stopps from the City Of Toronto at the 2022 Green Building Festival.
Duncan is the Project Manager at City of Toronto, and Devon is the Senior Engineer – Public Energy Initiatives.

A Call to Action

In this episode, we sit down with our very own Mike Singleton, SBC’s executive director that took place at the 2022 Green Building Festival!

Timber!

With the growing popularity of all timber housing communities we’re thrilled at the chance to catch up with Oskar Norelius — the award-winning architect and partner at White, one of Scandinavia’s leading architecture firms. Oskar shares his experience co-leading the recently inaugurated Sara Culture Centre in Skellefteå, a climate positive 20-storey mass timber project.

Inside Evolv1 - Canada’s First Zero Carbon Building

In this episode, we sit down with Monika Mikhail, a Sustainability Management student from the University of Waterloo. Monika shares her insights studying the operational performance of Evolv1, Canada’s first zero carbon building.
Monika Mikhail is a graduate researcher in Sustainability Management in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo. Her research focus includes improving building energy modelling and better understanding occupant needs to reduce HVAC energy use. She received her BASc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo where she founded the Chemical Engineering Buddy Program and the Student Energy chapter. Her co-op positions included various roles in continuous improvement engineering, quality assurance and manufacturing engineering at St Mary’s Cement, Magna, Bombardier and PepsiCo.

Energiesprong in Action

Energiesprong in Action: Live from the Green Building Festival we sit down with builder Peter Amerongen who shares his experience and expertise designing and building multiple net zero energy houses and was the first builder in North America to leverage the Dutch Energiesprong panelized approach to a 1970’s townhouse complex in Edmonton Alberta.