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190 O’Connor Street - Our new home on October 1st!

190 O’Connor Street - Our new home on October 1st!

The Making of a Move - First, Listen!

August 22, 2019

CSV is moving downtown after 15 years in the Hintonburg neighbourhood. Follow the story of our move as we use the first of the three key elements of our service approach - Listen, Design and Deliver.

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Tags architecture, Ottawa, CSV Architects, staff engagement, collaboration, officemove
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Getting it Tested

October 30, 2018

This post is a continuation of the story of CSV’s engagement with the Passive House standard. This time we’ll look at verification of one component of building performance: air tightness testing of the building enclosure.

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Tags architecture, architects, Ottawa architecture, CSV Architects, Green Architecture, sustainable architecture, passive house, passive design, design
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Bird Friendly Building Design

May 30, 2018

The recently completed NCC Visitor Centre at 7 Clarence in the Byward Market has caught the eye of Safe Wings Ottawa, an organization devoted to bird-friendly building design.

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Promoting Sustainable Design

October 31, 2017

Here at CSV Architects’, sustainable design is fundamental to all our work. This means it is crucial that we stay up to date with the various regulations surrounding this increasingly popular topic, in an ever-changing landscape. Because CSV has our very own expert in this field (Sustainability Consultant Stephen Pope), we really make an effort to spread our knowledge to others in the industry in hopes of promoting sustainable design and making it more accessible to all.

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Tags sustainable architecture, sustainability, sustainable communities, Green Architecture, architecture, sustainable design, sustainable project, architects, Ottawa, Ottawa architecture
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