Volume 3 - Program & Project Ideas (PDF - 4.5 - Natural Life Network
Volume 3 - Program & Project Ideas (PDF - 4.5 - Natural Life Network
Volume 3 - Program & Project Ideas (PDF - 4.5 - Natural Life Network
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<strong>Natural</strong> Resources Canada – Community Energy Systems<br />
• The reduction and reuse of construction materials reduces construction waste<br />
in landfills.<br />
For additional information contact http://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/<br />
- Case study: Regina, SK<br />
UMA Engineering Ltd and the Regina Home Builders’ Association completed a<br />
feasibility study to determine the feasibility of developing a Residential Construction<br />
Waste Management Plan for the City of Regina including any controls that may be<br />
necessary for such a plan. It found that the distance required to transport the recycling<br />
goods to a recycling plant (for example to another province) determines the project<br />
feasibility.<br />
• Recycling and reusing residential construction waste reduces builders<br />
dumping costs, and reduces pressure on the landfills.<br />
Source: UMA Engineering Ltd and the Regina Home Builders’ Association. 1996. New<br />
Residential Construction Waste Management Plan: A Feasibility Study (PB0177-36).<br />
http://www.actprogram.com/english/projects/pdf/pb0177-36.pdf 3<br />
-Additional resource<br />
See the LEED program http://www.usgbc.org and click on certified projects.<br />
B.2.2 Building reuse<br />
(See also the conversion section of Intensification, infill and conversion.)<br />
- Case study: Edmonton, AB<br />
The City of Edmonton adopted flexible and safe housing standards to provide incentives<br />
to landowners (often of illegal) rooming houses to bring their units into the regulated<br />
market and make the necessary upgrade. The regulations were pilot–tested on a 21-unit<br />
rooming house.<br />
• Significant renovation cost savings resulted from using the new guidelines<br />
thereby making building reuse financially feasible.<br />
• It allows for the reuse buildings that would have been demolished, saves<br />
energy.<br />
Source: ACT. 1996. Safe Housing Standards for Affordable Renovation City of Edmonton:<br />
(61380). ACT case study. http://www.actprogram.com/english/casestudies/pdf/PB0177-20.pdf<br />
3 Affordability and Choice Today (ACT) case studies are prepared for the Federation of Canadian<br />
Municipalities, the Canadian Home Builders’ Association, the Canadian Housing and Renewal<br />
Association and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Print copies are available free of<br />
charge from CMHC’s Canadian Information Centre. In Canada, call 1 800 668-2642 then option<br />
3. Outside Canada, call (613) 748-2367. cmhc004@cmhc-schl.gc.ca<br />
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