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This article was published by The Energy Mix<\/a> on April 22, 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Gaye Taylor<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Canada needs five million affordable homes by 2030\u2014and building them with Canadian-made low-carbon materials, paired with smarter design, could slash emissions at \u201cnegligible\u201d cost while supporting local industries, says Clean Energy Canada (CEC).<\/p>\n

Clean construction products and practices offer a \u201csingle elegant solution\u201d to the complex challenge of building millions of affordable housing units during a climate crisis\u2014and at a time when the United States can no longer be relied on as a trade partner, CEC\u00a0says<\/a>\u00a0in a new report, Building Toward Low Cost and Carbon.<\/p>\n

Without a shift in how buildings are designed and built, meeting Canada\u2019s housing targets will generate nearly 730 million tonnes of additional emissions by 2030\u2014more than the country\u2019s total emissions for an entire year.<\/p>\n

Address Embodied Carbon<\/h2>\n

Those emissions come from the materials and processes used in construction\u2014the \u201cembodied carbon\u201d that includes emissions from production, transportation, assembly, maintenance, and end-of-life disposal. These often take a backseat to \u201coperational\u201d emissions like heating, cooling, and electricity use.<\/p>\n

But as buildings become increasingly electrified and energy-efficient, embodied carbon will make up a larger share of their emissions impact, writes CEC, citing research by the Canada Green Building Council. CAGBC finds that by 2050, the \u201cembodied emissions of an efficient electrically heated building can make up as much as 93 per cent of the building\u2019s cumulative emissions impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canadian-Made, Low-Carbon, Low-Cost<\/h2>\n

Fortunately, Canada is well-positioned on materials, Clean Energy Canada says. Structural steel, concrete, rebar, drywall, and insulation produced domestically are already lower in carbon intensity than many imported alternatives\u2014with manufacturers seeing a \u201cbuilt-in advantage\u201d thanks to the country\u2019s relatively clean electricity grid.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Canadian steel is already 16 to 200 per cent less carbon-intensive than its American, European, or Chinese counterparts. The ongoing shift away from blast furnaces to electric arc<\/a> will further slash structural steel emissions, with an estimated 10 to 100 per cent reduction expected for new buildings.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Canadian concrete production offers another slice of \u201cgood news\u201d with less carbon-intensive inputs, cleaner kiln fuels, and onsite carbon capture contributing to as much as 32 per cent lower emissions in a notoriously carbon-intensive building material.<\/p>\n

\u2022 For rebar\u2014the heavy iron rods that enhance tensile strength in concrete\u2014a combination of domestic recycling and an expected shift to less carbon-intensive smelting processes could reduce embodied carbon by as much as 53 per cent.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Canada is also looking good on reducing gypsum drywall emissions, with a new wallboard plant set to open outside Montreal this year with a target of 60 per cent lower emissions than the standard.\u00a0 \u201cProduction of low-carbon gypsum wallboard is also slated to start in Alberta, providing more options in local markets,\u201d CEC adds.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Canadian innovations in low-emissions insulation are another bright spot. CEC cites Soprema, a French multinational operating in Quebec, and its creation of a rigid insulation panel with 98.7 per cent lower emissions than the industry average.<\/p>\n

The cost difference for all this innovation is minimal. \u201cCutting carbon won\u2019t break the bank,\u201d CEC writes. Where price premiums do exist, they\u2019re typically small enough to be \u201crounding errors\u201d\u2014minor fluctuations in the overall cost of billion-dollar construction projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cPut simply, cutting carbon won\u2019t break the bank,\u201d CEC writes.<\/p>\n

Design Makes a Difference<\/h2>\n

Even bigger emission reductions can come earlier in the process with design decisions that reduce the overall use of materials, the report adds.<\/p>\n

For instance, high-rise buildings in Canada typically use the \u201csame reinforcement and concrete designs\u201d for all stories, despite higher stories carrying far less weight than the ones below. \u201cIf each storey was designed optimally, a 15- to 20-floor building could save as much as 45 per cent of the column, beam, and wall concrete.\u201d Optimally designed buildings would also avoid concrete-intensive underground amenities like basements and parking garages.<\/p>\n

Climate resilience measures like pitched roofs rather than flat ones, and envelope simplifications like reimagining wind-exposed balconies, are other options.<\/p>\n

Carbon-conscious design \u201ccan reduce embodied emissions by as much as 41 per cent while saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in material costs,\u201d CEC writes.<\/p>\n

Policy Matters<\/h2>\n

Federal \u201cBuy Clean\u201d commitments and efforts under the Canada Green Building Strategy are already helping to drive change, CEC says. Cities like Vancouver, Toronto, and Hamilton are also advancing embodied carbon policies that require reporting and reduction.<\/p>\n

Up next should be the \u201cre-evaluation of building codes and design guidelines to remove unnecessary restrictions on lower-carbon designs while focussing on carbon performance over prescriptive requirements,\u201d the report says. Governments will also want to support smaller producers in their efforts to gather emissions-related data for potential customers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith government support, Canada\u2019s green building sector is expected to grow more than threefold by 2030,\u201d writes CEC. \u00a0The sector will generate \u201chundreds of thousands of new jobs and billions of dollars in economic benefits,\u201d \u00a0while boosting trade relations with \u201clike-minded\u201d partners like the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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