Can Architecture Fix: Melting Permafrost?

This week we are asking: Can Architecture Fix the melting permafrost!

We’ve invited William Gagnon who is a Green Building Engineer at the Canada mortgage and Housing corporation in innovation and climate. William’s article tells the story about how communities in the Northwest Territories of Canada are dealing with both technical and psychological challenges as glaciers in the territory melt causing rivers to run backwards, and as foundations of peoples homes subside due to melting permafrost.

If you would like to find more information about William’s work, you can follow him at williamgagnon.ca, and on both twitter and instagram under the handle wgagnon. You can also read more articles from William on medium.com under the handle @gagnon.will.

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