Full Circle Canadian Architect, March 2025Full Circle outlines the past, present, and future of building and material reuse practices in North America. 

“ To move forward, we must engage in a process of unlearning entrenched notions like building obsolescence—and instead recognize and appreciate the inherent value of our built fabric and building materials.”

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Model Policy for Adaptive Reuse of Assets
World Economic Forum, July 2024
Ha/f served as advisory experts to the World Economic Forum’s development of the Model Policy primer for municipal governments.

“By engaging in adaptive reuse projects instead of demolition and new construction, cities can realize benefits such as reduced embodied and operational carbon, economic stimulation, increased housing supply, job creation, community revitalization, and the preservation of cultural and architectural heritage.”

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For Greener Buildings, We Need to Rethink How We Construct Them.University of Toronto Magazine, April 2024 The University of Toronto article highlights how conventional urban design guidelines and construction norms increase embodied carbon by up to 40%.

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Paper or Plastic?
Architect Magazine, July 2024
Over the past 50-years petroleum-based products in our construction sector have pushed-out bio-based alternatives. This article speaks to the implications of this change, and how the creation of the Bio-based Materials Collective was initiated to catalyze the reintroduction of natural materials into our building systems.

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Thinking Through Material Flows
Architects Newspaper, May 2023
This interview of Kelly Alvarez Doran with the Architects Newspaper provides insights into how his experiences working in East Africa have shaped his understanding of the potential impacts of design and material selection.

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Mass Timber Through a Life Cycle Lens
Canadian Architect, March 2022
This summary of the Ha/f Research Studio’s assessment of ten recently completed mass timber projects across North America and Europe provides the insights into the key drivers of emissions across this structural system.

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Why We Need Embodied Carbon Benchmarks and Targets in Building Standards and Policies: An Open Letter
Canadian Architect, April 2021
The summary of the first Ha/f Research Studio’s study of multiunit residential construction in Toronto. The studio uncovered key drivers of cost and emissions in construction - notably parking minimums, transfer structures, code definitions, and urban design guidelines.

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