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Low Carbon Climate Resilient HCF Design
Canada’s health care infrastructure faces challenges, relating to aging facilities, availability of capital investment, increased demand for services, and the need to adopt digital and innovative technologies. These...
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Standards in Action: Building a Climate Resilient...
Since 2016, SCC’s Standards to Support Resilience in Infrastructure Program has led the development of dozens of standards and related guidance to safeguard critical infrastructure in Canada. SCC held a national consultation...
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Future by design: standards for a climate resilient...
Final Report of the 2016-2021 Standards to Support Resilience in Infrastructure Program Our buildings and infrastructure are designed with weather in mind. We expect our homes to protect us from heavy snow, our stormwater...
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Using Climate Information in Standards Development
Technical Companion to the Guide for Integrating Climate Change Adaptation Considerations into Canadian StandardsTechnical Companion to the Guide for Integrating Climate Change Adaptation Considerations into Canadian...
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Climate Monitoring Guide for Indigenous Communities
This document offers voluntary guidance to Indigenous communities across Canada for implementing community-based climate monitoring projects. It shares advice on how to collect, record and validate data on key physical...
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Urban Heat Island Mapping Workshop: What We Heard
The effects of urban heat islands pose a threat to Canadians, our infrastructure, and environment. The Standards Council of Canada, alongside four leading organizations from across Canada, hosted a workshop in Fall 2022 to...
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Bridging the Standards Divide: Modernizing Standards...
This report analyzes and compiles CATRTA beneficiary countries’ needs in the areas of standards, conformity assessment and technical barriers to trade (TBT), identified during the CIDA funded workshop/roundtable held from May...
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Northern, Small, and Remote Health Care Facilities...
Standards play an important role in supporting health care delivery. By outlining requirements and best practices for performance and process, standards can help patients, staff, and visitors avoid injury from medical devices...
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Getting Nature into Financial Reporting: Natural...
Integrating natural assets—such as wetlands, rivers, forests, and coastal dunes—into financial reporting can help local governments demonstrate effective management of the financially valuable services these assets provide to...
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Beyond Disclosure: Driving Performance & Trust...
Getting beyond greenwashing through standardization Environmental, Social and Governance performance (or ESG) is an increasingly important topic amongst organizations around the world, driven in large part by growing consumer...
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Rising Seas and Shifting Sands
Combining natural and grey infrastructure to protect Canada’s eastern and western coastal communities This report describes how Canada can scale-up the use of nature-based solutions, in tandem with grey infrastructure, to...
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SCC’s Innovation Initiative Case Studies Compendium
SCC created its Innovation Initiative in 2017 so Canadian innovators from coast to coast could reap the benefits that standardization offers. We engaged with more than 250 from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to...