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LEED Has

its Project

of the Year

Winners list includes
entrants from

California to Turkey.
Caption.
ARK MOZAIK A Block, a multi-
family affordable apartment
building in Ankara, Turkey, is
P LEED’s Residential Project of
the Year, the U.S. Green Building Council
(USGBC) announced. The 40-unit LEED
Gold-certified structure was “designed
to support middle-income families and
focused on decisions that promote
sustainability, health and affordability,”
according to LEED CEO and President
Mahesh Ramanujam. Those features
include water-efficient fixtures that reduce
water use by more than 40 percent, and Northern boom? Despite a pandemic, new home building in Canada is hitting record highs.
a human-centric design that prioritizes CREDIT: FATCAMERA¤ISTOCK
health through enhanced ventilation,
filtration, source separation and non- Canada’s Housing Market
emitting materials, he notes.
Turns Red Hot

Defying predictions, ‘The Great White North’ has its

best new homebuilding summer since 2007.

Other LEED Home Award winners include ONSTRUCTION OF NEW HOMES in Canada reached its highest level in more than a decade as
GPD 346 Highland (Weston, Mass.), the nation’s housing market continues to defy forecasts of a slowdown. According to a report
GREENLAB (Dallas), and Sikes Residence by Bloomberg News, housing starts for this past summer topped 650,000, up 6.9 percent from
(Cincinnati) as Outstanding Single Family C the same period in 2019 and the highest total in any quarter since fall 2007. The increase is
Projects; 3365 Third Ave. (Bronx, N.Y.), The largely the result of new construction in Toronto and Vancouver, Bloomberg notes.
Arroyo (Santa Monica, Calif.), and Freedom The housing market has boomed even as the Canadian economy slowly recovers from the steepest
Commons (Syracuse, N.Y.) as Outstanding downturn since the Great Depression, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC). Prices
Affordable Project; and AMLI Residential as for existing homes in the largest cities are at record highs thanks to strong demand, limited inventory and
Developer of the Year. The full list of 2020 historically low borrowing costs, CMHC says.
awards recipients and their project profiles Canada’s construction surge follows suit with the United States, which has also suffered through a
may be found at www.usgbc.org. pandemic-induced economic slowdown but has recently seen its biggest number of new housing starts
since 2006, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. GB

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