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The Ontario Building Code (OBC) is enforced by this level of government.
What is municipality/local government?
This disaster destroyed a large section of Toronto’s downtown in the early 20th century.
(Bonus points for year)
What is The Great Fire of Toronto?
REVIT was first released in this year.
(Bonus points for date)
What is 2000?
The AGO’s Transformation (completed in 2008) was led by this Canadian born architect.
Who is Frank Gehry?
Taylor Swift’s Begin Again music video features this world-famous lattice tower.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
In the 2024 OBC update, the previously 'reserved' Division B - Part 2, now includes detailed technical requirements for THIS type of building.
What are Farm Buildings?
One of the world’s tallest free-standing towers, the CN tower derives its name from this national infrastructure.
What is the Canadian National Railway?
In BIM, this acronym refers to a 3D model with added time-related scheduling data.
What is 4D?
This Canadian architect designed both Massey College and the Otonabee River Campus of Trent University.
Who is Ron Thom?
In Annie the Musical, Miss Hannigan tells the orphans to mop the floors until they shine like the top of this Iconic Manhattan skyscraper.
What is the Chrysler Building?
These four provinces publish their own building codes based on the national model codes.
What is British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario & Quebec?
This Toronto neighbourhood is built on the former site of the 2015 Pan Am Games.
What is the Canary District?
Often referred to as the ‘Father of BIM’ this man is best known for his work on the Building Descriptive System (BDS), the first software to describe library elements which can be retrieved and added to a model.
Who is Charles (Chuck) Eastman?
This residential complex designed by an Israeli-Canadian architect was first shown to the public in Expo 67.
(Bonus points for the architect’s name)
What is Habitat 67?
This structure was famously scaled by Tom Cruise in the 2011 film Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol.
What is the Burj Khalifa?
Updates in OBC 2024 include allowances for Encapsulated Mass Timber Construction (EMTC) in buildings up to this many storeys.
What is 18 storeys?
This building is Toronto’s tallest residential building as of 2025.
(Bonus points for height or number of storeys)
What is One Bloor West?
The UK was (one of) the first to mandate the use of BIM for all public sector projects from this year onwards.
What is 2016?
Canadian Architect Arthur Erickson designed the original campus for this West Coast university.
What is Simon Fraser University?
Die Hard’s Nakatomi Plaza is actually this LA skyscraper.
What is Fox Plaza?
This is the year in which Canada’s first National Building Code was published.
What is 1941?
The architect who designed Toronto’s new City Hall is from this country.
(Bonus points for his/her name)
What is Finland?
The name Revit was inspired by this phrase.
What is Revise Instantly?
This woman was the first woman to graduate with a university degree in architecture in Canada.
(Bonus points for year)
Who is Esther Marjorie Hill (UofT)?
This famous modern house, appears in the 1959 film North by Northwest.
What is Fallingwater?