A grant from the Trillium Foundation announced earlier this month will help the Greater Toronto Chapter of the Canada Green Building Council train an estimated 4,700 building professionals in green building technologies.
The funding of $393,100 is part of the Ontario provincial government foundation's Future Fund, created with the mildly vague mandate to "invest in Ontario's future," and the CGBC was one of four 2010 recipients of grants totaling $2 million.
In a
vignette on the Trillium Foundation's website,
CGBC Greater Toronto Chapter Executive Director Lyle Shipley says, "Buildings have been constructed pretty much
in the same way for the last 40 years. We will be
offering primer courses in integrated building design that will lead to
a reduction in construction waste, less time lost (to deliver a greener
building), fewer cost overruns and change orders." The techniques taught will include increasing capacity in energy and water conservation and efficiency.
Writer: Edward Keenan
Source: Angela Kooij, Senior Communications Officer, Trillium Foundation
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