Shaun St. Amour (Owner, Footprint Sustainable Housing Corporation and Product Consultant for 475 High-Performance Building Supply) and I had a far-reaching discussion about the current high-performance building environment, Passive House, and much more. Check out the links to topics referenced in our conversation to provide an idea of the content of the recording. Global Passive…
Protected: Affordable Housing as Social Infrastructure: Reflections from theBPiBS Compendium
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Navigating BC Building Codes in a Changing Climate
In a recent conversation with Tim Warner from the City of Nanaimo, we explored how building regulations and climate considerations are rapidly evolving in British Columbia. Warner describes his role as “planning and project management on projects that relate to civic buildings,” noting that “the city of Nanaimo owns about 105 facilities,” from small park…
StrongerBC Future Skills Grant
The StrongerBC Future Skills Grant will cover the full tuition cost for the seven-course PEAK-Buildings Certificate program. Here is a recording of Sumit Makkar, graduate of the PEAK-Buildings program and Senior Capital Planning Director at Douglas College, describing the benefits he received from his time in the program. Sumit’s talk Details about the PEAK-Buildings Certificate…
A few remaining fully-funded PEAK-Buildings Certificate program grants available
Stronger BC Future Skills Grants provide up to $3,500 The PEAK-Buildings Certificate program is eligible for the Future Skills Grant (FSG)! To learn more about the FSG, please visit this website, or contact our CE department at (604) 527-5472 or cereg@douglascollege.ca . Practical Energy and Advanced Knowledge – Buildings (PEAK/Buildings) is a fully online, interactive and flexible…
Wednesday night online check-ins
Free, open Zoom drop-in sessions We’ve been having Wednesday night online check-ins for a while now – these are free and open to anyone interested in PEAK-Buildings topics. Here are some recent topics that participants have been interested in and that we have discussed during the Zoom sessions: mitigating heat dome effects with building enclosure…
PEAK Program News
All PEAK courses are now available on a continuous registration format. Here are some details about the program: PEAK Foundations– This course is prerequisite to earn the PEAK credential, and is recommended for anyone entering, working in, or career-shifting within building-sector and built-environment occupations and interests. During development of this course, I became involved in…
PEAK Update – Summer 2021
We’ve been running a pilot version of the PEAK program with a small and focused group and have worked through 4 of the seven courses. Here are some highlights to date: Personalized learning plan. Respecting the wide appeal of the program and topics, we have developed a flexible approach: Courses can be taken individually, and…
Douglas College Faculty Association signs SDG Accord and Declares a Climate Emergency
The DCFA, in acknowledgement of the existential crisis that the planet currently faces, with the risk it poses to communities locally and globally, humans and all organisms and ecosystems on earth, declared a climate emergency on 22nd February 2021. In doing so, DCFA members made the commitment to support the DCFA Climate Emergency Action Committee…
Conversation with Jovian Radheshwar, PhD
Jovian Radheshwar, PhD is a friend and political science instructor at Douglas College. His areas of focus include globalization, political economy, modern political theory, postmodernism, security studies, international institutions, Black studies, Hip-Hop and politics, American politics and history, Indian politics and history, Pakistani politics and history. Jovian asked me to contribute as a guest instructor…
Open, building and built-environment based educational content for youth
We have begun a process of curating and creating open, building and built-environment based resources based on topics and content from the PEAK-Buildings program
Advancing Sustainability in the Built Environment 