Sustainability mandate

Prioritizing sustainability is critical to Construction Industry Trade Fair team, as we understand the environmental impact of the events industry. Construction Industry Trade Fair strives to identify, understand and address these impacts to achieve continual improvement year after year.

Not only are we committed to running our events in an environmentally and socially responsible way, but we also strive to go further and inspire the sustainable development of the industry we serve, and the community we foster. Construction Industry Trade Fair is powered by renewable electricity, helping us in our journey towards Net Zero.

Our progress

  • Tracking all wastage and energy usage from our events.
  • Purchasing renewable energy to offset our carbon emissions for The Buildings Show event.
  • Reducing lighting and HVAC throughout move in and move out times as well as disabling the descending elevators.
  • Eliminating show guides from show to save on paper and printing.
  • Discontinuing the use of aisle carpet from the Show Floor.
  • Working with the MTCC to enable exhibitors to donate any materials they won’t re-use to Habitat for Humanity.
  • Reducing materials and giveaways (“swag”) ordered for the event.

Goals

Construction Industry Trade Fair team has many goals, some short-term whilst others are looking further forward into the future.

This year,Construction Industry Trade Fair will focus on three fundamental goals:

  1. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Commitment:
    Our goal is to create an inclusive event and to encourage a balance of different genders, races, ages, ethnicities, abilities, and educational backgrounds across the speaker faculty.
  2. Make an Positive Impact in Our Community:
    Support a local charity and partner with Habitat for Humanity to donate show floor items to be repurposed while diverting waste from landfills.
  3. Showcasing Emerging Local and National Start-Up Companies: Create a feature on the show floor to provide access and visibility to the professionals in the built environment.

Venue support

  • Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building is a LEED gold certified facility.
  • The MTCC diverts 90% of waste from landfill by recycling including batteries and bulbs, composting, food and material donation to Toronto’s District School Board Student Nutrition Program and Habitat for Humanity.
  • The MTCC operates six beehives on the roof of the South building. Each hive is home to 50,000 bees which help support the preservation of essential pollinators in our city to producing delicious honey for our culinary team. Along with a chef’s garden which allows home-grown fresh ingredients to be used as much as possible.
  • The MTCC uses Enwave Energy’s Deep Lake Water Cooling system. This system uses cold water extracted from Lake Ontario to cool our South Building allowing for a significant reduction in GHG emissions & electrical consumption.
  • The MTCC uses Voyage Control to reduce traffic and emissions in the local area by eliminating idle time for vehicles.