Ontario Embodied Carbon Awards: 2023 Winners Series (Part I)

CLF Toronto is proud to bring deeper insights to two of our 2023 Ontario Embodied Carbon Award Winning Projects:

Innovation in Industry 2023 Award Winner: TGS Embodied Carbon Caps

On May 10, 2023, the City of Toronto updated the Toronto Green Standard (TGS) energy and emissions building design requirements to include mandatory embodied carbon intensity caps for new City agency, corporation, and division-owned buildings and private high-performance developments built within city limits. The TGS is a market transformation tool that sets out mandatory and higher performance sustainable design requirements for new developments in Toronto, which significantly improve upon the requirements of the Ontario Building Code. Toronto is the first jurisdiction in North America to establish whole-building embodied carbon intensity caps for new developments, which highlights Toronto’s leadership and investment in reducing embodied carbon emissions from building construction. Compliance with these caps will result in direct reductions in embodied carbon emissions…