Waterfront Neighourhood Space Strategy, Certification
The Waterfront Neighbourhood Space is a pop-up park on Ookwemin Minising, built using reclaimed and repurposed materials sourced from projects across Toronto, including residential renovations, demolition sites, and infrastructure work, giving the materials a second life.
Delivered through a relationship between Waterfront Toronto, the City of Toronto and C40 Cities, it serves as a public demonstration project for material circularity in action. The project was designed and delivered by Ha/f Climate Design, GXN, AKT II, and Arcana Materials.
Unlocking the Value of Existing Buildings
Policy, Strategy
Co-led with Giaimo Architects for the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals, this national study applies consistent whole-life carbon and cost methodology across Halifax, Montréal, and Vancouver to demonstrate that demolition and replacement is consistently the most expensive and most carbon-intensive pathway available.
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Clean Enery Canada: Building Toward Low Cost and Carbon Policy, Strategy
Co-authored with Clean Energy Canada, this report draws on Canadian case studies across townhouse, mid-rise, and high-rise building types to show that lower-carbon structural and material choices are widely available and achievable at little to no cost premium.
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How Heavy is a Building? Strategy, Exhibition
Originally exhibited at the 2025 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, this short film quantifies the embodied carbon of three of Lisbon's most iconic cultural institutions, using site investigations, interviews, and visual storytelling to make visible the material, cultural, and environmental weight of architecture. The film received a Jurors Award at DesignTO 2026.
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