Author: Fay Harvey

The eight-story Sterling Road project in Toronto’s Junction Triangle brings a sustainable office campus to a bustling creative community. The building is futureproofed with modern technology and 5G capabilities for the evolving workforce and is also LEED Gold certified. Photo Credit: Hines/DLR Group
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Reflecting on T3 Building in 2025

Hines, a global real estate investment management firm, has been keeping its finger on the pulse of building trends and client needs since 1957, with a modern focus on sustainability — specifically, the T3 (Timber, Transit and Technology) method, which was created in 2012.

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Concrete made with biochar, a heat-treated biomass, was found to be a potential solution to harboring carbon in building materials, a UC Davis-Stanford study found. Photo Credit: Sabbie Miller, UC Davis
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Study Sees Potential for Storing Carbon in Common Building Materials

In a study published on Jan. 10, civil engineers and earth systems scientists at Stanford University and the University of California, Davis, found that construction materials such as concrete, asphalt, wood, brick and plastic have the potential to store billions of tons of climate-harming carbon dioxide.  

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