Fall 2023 Pushing the Canada Canada Post Publications Agreement Number: 40609661 The Impact of Canada’s New Clean Energy Tax CreditsPushing the Envelope Canada 7 Pushing the Canada n n n TABLE OF CONTENTS UP FRONT Message from the President...............................................................................................11 Meet the OBEC Board of Directors.................................................................................11 Upcoming Building Science Specialist Exam Date..........................................................13 FEATURES Free-Form Façades: A Survey of Optimization, Documentation, and Fabrication Methodologies................................................................................................................15 Impact of Canada’s New Clean Energy Tax Credits on the Nation’s Metal Roofing Industry...........................................................................................................................20 The Evolution of Cold Applied Roofing ..........................................................................26 Designing Residential Structures: What Works and What Doesn’t ..............................31 Capturing the Sun: How to Seize the Benefits of Natural Light....................................36 Questioning the Reparability of New Buildings ..............................................................39 TAKE ACTION Join the Ontario Building Envelope Council...................................................................43 INDEX TO ADVERTISERS............................................................................................46 Pushing the Envelope Canada A publication of the Ontario Building Envelope Council Fall 2023 Published For: The Ontario Building Envelope Council 2800 – 14th Ave. Suite 210 Markham, ON L3R 0E4 Phone: 647-317-5754 Fax: 416-491-1670 info@obec.on.ca www.obec.on.ca © 2023 Matrix Group Publishing Inc. 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ON THE COVER: With the introduction of Canada’s 2022 Fall Economic Statement and amendments made in the Budget 2023, Canada’s renewable energy industry is poised for significant growth. Featured on the cover are a number of installations utilizing the S-5! PVKIT direct-attach solar mounting solution, which is a great choice for energy saving and green living. Flip to page 20 to learn more about the impact of Canada’s new Clean Energy Tax Credits. Fall 2023 Pushing the Canada Canada Post Publications Agreement Number: 40609661 RenewableEnergy isLooking The Impact of Canada’s New Clean Energy Tax CreditsPushing the Envelope Canada 9 n n n TABLE OF CONTENTS Pushing the Envelope Canada A publication of the Ontario Building Envelope Council Fall 2023 Published By: Matrix Group Publishing Inc. 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OBEC does not make or imply any warranties as to the suitability of any of these products or services for any specific situation. Furthermore, the opinions expressed in this magazine’s editorial content may not necessarily reflect the opinions of OBEC. MEET OUR EXPERTS MEAGAN KIKUTA Meagan Kikuta, M.Eng., B.Arch. Sci., LEED AP, RRO, is currently a Design Professional Rep for Tremco Roofing Ontario. She has over 13 years of experience in the commercial construction industry in the fields of Technical Sales, Construction Project Management and Consulting Engineering. Meagan holds a Masters in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto and a Bachelors of Architectural Science from Ryerson University, both degrees majoring in Building Science. MAURICE QUINN Maurice Quinn, P.Eng., B.Eng., is a Senior Structural Engineer for Capacity Engineering Ltd. He has been with the company for over thirteen years, and often writes for CEL’s blog, keeping readers up to date on various topics in the industry. MARCO FERRAZZO Marco Ferrazzo, B.A.Sc., is the Process Manager of Plant Production Management at Artistic Skylight Domes, Ltd. He has been an expert with the company for nearly a decade. STEPHEN MACDOUGALL Stephen MacDougall is a licenced Professional Engineer and Principal Forensic & Structural Engineer at Brown & Beattie Ltd. where he has worked for the past 14 years. He specializes in the assessment and repair of buildings damaged by a wide range of events, from leakage to structural collapses, fires, and extreme weather. He and his colleagues help Condominium Corporations and Insurance Companies determine the cause and best course of action to address structural and building envelope related failures. CK DICKSON WONG CK Dickson Wong began his career as an architect who completed his training at industry- leading architectural offices. Since joining Inhabit, he has overseen numerous high-end, large-scale, and complex projects from schematic design, through construction documentation and tendering, to construction administration, fabrication, and on-site coordination. As a façade consultant, CK has collaborated with world-renowned architectural offices and internationally established developers. His expertise includes architectural design, complex geometry analysis and geometry rationalization, façade system design, façade construction documentation, performance test witnessing and construction administration. Leveraging his robust knowledge of computational tools, he has been spearheading computational design initiatives within the office and developing unconventional, tailor-made façade solutions for several significant projects. He has been regularly invited to publish these solutions in major international conference proceedings in the field. HO SUNG KIM Ho Sung Kim is a Masters-qualified architect from the University of Pennsylvania with experience in architectural façade on projects across Hong Kong, Macau, Korea and further afield including the USA and Central Africa. He has acquired exceptional skills in BIM modelling of façade systems to model, develop, and detail façade systems to a level that allows him to automate deliverables including fabrication drawings. Utilizing his skills in parametric modelling and scripting, he is able to propose and finalize form finding, penalization, and rationalization for complex geometric designs. ROB HADDOCK S-5! CEO and Founder, Rob Haddock is a former contractor, award-winning roof-forensics expert, author, lecturer and building envelope scientist who has worked in various aspects of metal roofing for five decades. Together with his sons, they co-invented the PVKIT rail-less direct- attach™ solar solution, providing a simple, secure method to “lay & play” PV modules with tested, engineered, cost-saving, attachment. To learn more, visit www.S-5.com. GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? WE’RE LISTENING! We’ve all got stories to tell. If you’re a member of the Ontario Building Envelope Council, we want to hear about your encounters while on-the-job, from a difficult or usual project, to how your company worked collaboratively to resolve an issue, to an exciting new project you’re working on—or whatever you’d like to share. We just might run your story in an upcoming issue of the magazine. Send a 100-word abstract to Daniel Aleksov (daniel@lebengineers.com) for consideration. If your idea is chosen, we’ll follow up with a word count and deadline. *Submitting an idea does not guarantee publication.Next >