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Why Green Developers Think These Condos Are a Pane in the Glass

Molly Miller | Posted 05.08.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Toronto, Energy Efficiency, Glazing, Kevin Hydes, High Rises, Integral Group, Green Building, Engineering, Molly Miller, Silicon Valley, Glass, Canada Business News
Molly Miller

Big glass high-rises mean modern, high-tech, success, money, and, to some, beauty. Certain real estate markets -- like downtown Toronto's -- have an addiction to this particular shining look that's hard to break and tenants have come to expect all the glass. But the glass boxes pose particular problems for energy efficiency, glare and comfort that some green developers want to expose.

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Is Canada Short of Engineers or Entrepreneurs?

Duane Lee | Posted 04.17.2013 | Canada
Read More: Business News, Entrepreneurship, Engineering, Canada News
Duane Lee

James Dyson (an engineer who created a billion dollar company re-engineering the vacuum cleaner) recently wrote about the serious shortage of engineer...

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A Call For More Female Mentors

Doina Oncel | Posted 03.26.2013 | Canada Impact
Read More: Girls, Women, Stem, Science, Mathematics, Female Mentors, Technology, Engineering, Women Technology, Women Mentors, Canada Impact News
Doina Oncel

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) is an important factor to our society. Girls' accomplishments in STEM are created by the quality of female leaders around them. Once young girls see themselves as successful as the leaders before them they will believe in the potential for academic growth therefore a positive outcome will result out of it.

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