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Adapting Canada’s Built Legacy Webinar Series
A two-part series focused on bringing new life to heritage buildings in Canada.
APT Canada is hosting a two-part webinar series focused on adapting heritage buildings for new uses in Canada. The selected presentations are derived from those that were presented at the 2024 APT conference in Montréal, Québec, and is geared towards those that did not attend the conference or those did attend but were not able to see these presentations. For those that may have seen these presentations in person at the conference, we hope that you are still interested in joining us, to learn more and discuss further.
The presentations will be broadcasted live and in the respective language of the presentation title (French or English) and there will be a short Q&A period after each presentation. There will be an option to use translated voice-to-text captioning through the Google Meet platform for those that wish to translate the presentation into another language.
Part 1: June 17, 2025
12:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern
| Topic | Speakers |
|---|---|
| Welcome | Lena Buchinger and Sarah Francisca (moderators) |
| Conservation & Carbon: The Campus Context | Amy Montgomery |
| Bridging Agricultural Buildings into Non-Agricultural Uses: Adapting Extant Barns to Modern Assembly Spaces | Arlin Otto |
| La réhabilitation sismique des bâtiments patrimoniaux (Seismic Rehabilitation of Historic Buildings) | Jérôme Bédard |
| Facadism: Heritage at Face Value | Janet Li |
| Closing Discussion | Panelists |
Part 2: September 9, 2025
12:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern
| Topic | Speakers |
|---|---|
| Welcome | Lena Buchinger and Sarah Francisca (moderators) |
| Practical Building Enclosure Retrofit: Thermal and Embodied Analysis for War Memorial Children’s Hospital Conversion to Supportive Housing | Emma Cubitt & Randy Van Straaten |
| The Art and Science of Stereotomy-An Organic Holistic Technology | Patrick Moore |
| Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal – Réfection des tours et clochers (Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal-Repair of the Towers and Bell Towers) | Daniel Durand & Jean-Phillippe Ouellette |
| Using Structural Health Monitoring in Historic Religious Sites with Limited Funding to Guide and Assess Conservation Efforts: A Case Study of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception | Alex Carpenter |
| Closing Discussion | Panelists |