Recent projects that pull Heritage Revitalization & Sustainability together:Five. 73-91 East 27th Avenue, VancouverThese five houses all located on 
a single 50 foot lot were built in 1912 and are listed on the Vancouver Heritage 
Register. Their rehabilitation included an “on-demand” in-floor heating system 
(EnerGuide 82 rated) that is anticipated to reduce green house gas emissions...
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The Heritage Branch, Ministry of Tourism, Sport and the Arts, Province of British Columbia, is currently completing Life Cycle Assessments of two publicly-owned heritage buildings – the Emily Carr House in Victoria and Ridgeway Elementary School in Vancouver – in order to evaluate the environmental and economic implications of preserving heritage buildings. Though the focus of the study is not on cultural values, they are an important...
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All levels of government – and many non-government organizations – have identified sustainability as a key policy issue.Sustainability (or sustainable development) was formally defined by the World Commission on Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission) in 1987 in a report called Our Common Future as development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their...
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