Zero carbon building is a lofty goal that is often criticized as too difficult to achieve. But the new Forensic Crime Scene facility at Trent University set out to prove that zero carbon building is something we can — and must — do today. To date, most...
The Trent Forensics Zero Carbon project requires a net zero energy and carbon performance in order to be certified by the International Living Future Institute’s Zero Carbon Certification program. For a large institutional facility to reach that goal we needed...
When Trent University set out to design a Forensics Crime Scene facility, the building would be the first of its kind on a Canadian university campus. But the innovation didn’t stop there: the building would also be the first certified Zero Carbon building in...