Carleton hosts student workshop on What Makes Existing Buildings Green?

The student symposium is intended to stimulate discussion between students of various disciplines related to sustainability, heritage, and conservation practice in a collaborative environment. Discussion will follow a lecture given by architect and author Jean Carroon regarding preservation and sustainable design.

• Understand the various sustainable practices that can be applied to heritage buildings. Briefly analyze the technology behind these practices and their effectiveness
• Recognize the conservation of heritage buildings as a sustainable practice
• Consider the environmental impact of creating and conserving durable buildings over creating new “efficient” buildings
• Understand the role of materiality in the conservation of heritage buildings, the sustainability and the embodied energy
• The sustainability of cultural landscapes through conservation

Organized by Carleton University’s School of Architecture, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the School of Canadian Studies
(Under the patronage of the Heritage Canada Foundation)  http://heritagecanada.org/en/resources/conferences

Martin Weaver Memorial Fund Event

Organized by Heritage Canada Foundation

• ISCARSAH One Day Seminar Announcement: Overview of Basics and Advanced Areas of Conservation Engineering (October 29, 2013)
• MWMF Lecture: Structural Recording Technologies for Structural Engineers : Dr. Rob van Hees (TU Delft, the Netherlands) (October 29, 2013)
• Results of the Carleton Heritage Charette -Explores Heritage and Technology Rethinking Victoria Island, Chaudière Falls (October 29, 2013)
• National workshop for structural engineers  (October 30, 2013)

For more information http://mwmfevents.wordpress.com