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Factsheets: Community Buildings Retrofit initiative
Learn how to retrofit existing community buildings to lower GHG emissions and extend their life cycle.
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Community efficiency financing
Case Study: An innovative path toward net-zero homes
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Energy
Energy
Webinar recording: How to start reducing GHG emissions in community buildings
Watch the discussion on how to create a GHG reduction pathway for community buildings.
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Water
Water
Case study: How Barrie’s new wastewater plant improves capacity and efficiency
Learn how the City of Barrie, ON, expanded its wastewater treatment plant to minimize sewer runoff, increase biogas production and serve the city's growing population.
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Water
Water
Case study: New disinfection techniques improve public health in Kapuskasing
This case study explores how new technologies helped increase the capacity of Kapuskasing, ON's wastewater treatment plant and improve public health.
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Water
Water
Case study: Upgrades allow Argyle to expand sewer system, reduce septic tank use
Argyle updated its wastewater treatment plant and introduced UV disinfection, allowing for service expansion to homes currently using septic tanks. Learn more in this case study.
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Water
Water
Case study: Greater water treatment capacity supports community growth in St. Louis
The new St. Louis wastewater treatment facility is supporting residential growth and economic expansion while generating cleaner effluent. Learn more in this case study.
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Case study: 2015 FCM Sustainable Communities Awards — Neighbourhood Development Plan
The Montréal Borough of Saint-Laurent, QC, has begun implementing a redevelopment plan that will create a mixed-use, urban neighbourhood within a one-kilometre radius around the current Bois-Franc train station and the future intermodal (train/subway) station.
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Transportation
Transportation
2015 FCM Sustainable Communities Award — Transportation
Over 1.25 million bike trips have been counted on Laurier Avenue West since the City of Ottawa, ON, implemented the province's first downtown segregated bicycle lanes in July 2011.
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Water
Water
Case study: Brockville adds secondary and UV treatment to its wastewater treatment plant
Brockville built secondary and UV treatment technologies into its wastewater treatment plant, reducing contaminants beyond regulatory standards. Learn more in this case study.
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Land Use
Land Use
2015 FCM Sustainable Communities Awards — Brownfields Plan
In the City of Langley, BC, a new Brownfield Redevelopment Strategy has delivered $192 million in new construction and 850 new jobs.
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Land Use
Land Use
2015 FCM Sustainable Communities Awards — Brownfields Project
In a departure from the conventional 'dig and dump' approach to contaminated soil, the City of Kingston, ON, chose an innovative underground filtering and cleaning technology to stop the flow of groundwater contaminants from Emma Martin Park into the Cataraqui River.