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Lifestyle and environment

How to future proof homes as we face a changing climate

How to build homes ready to face climate change? We often think of the land underneath our feet as fixed and unmoving. On a calm day, if you sit next to the ocean, it seems quite stationary. It does change though - with the shifting of tectonic plates, erosion, wind, super tides and flooding. These changes are most no...

LEED Homes

Quebec carpentry students to build LEED house for Habitat for Humanity

After completing a design workshop for high performance wall systems, teachers at the New Frontiers School Board in Ormstown, QC have settled on a building envelope that will outperform houses built to code by a factor of almost 3. The school will be releasing videos following the progress of this first of its kind pro...

LEED Homes

The Canada Green Building Council (CAGBC) measures the environmental benefit of the LEED for Homes program.

...CaGBC collected data over the next eight years, measuring the direct impact LEED Canada made on various aspects of the environment, including greenhouse gas emissions, national energy and water consumption and waste diversion. The results were compelling: A 312,006 C02e tonne reduction in greenhouse gas emissions which...

LEED Homes

The Canada Green Building Council announces affordable green housing program

Working with charitable housing groups like Habitat for Humanity, the CaGBC will administer free registrations and certifications under the internationally-recognized Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building certification program, which addresses homes as well as a broad range of other buildi...

Lifestyle and environment

Green building is accelerating around the world

Courtesy of the USGBC, the following is a guest post by Harvey M. Bernstein, Vice President of Industry Insights & Alliances, McGraw-Hill Construction and John Mandyck, Chief Sustainability Officer for United Technologies Climate, Controls & Security. There is no doubt that sustainability initiatives and enviro...

LEED Homes

Canada's first LEED V4 Platinum house - An Ecohome project checklist

...CaGBC) anounced that the LEED for Homes rating system would raise the bar with the LEED V4 program, we at Ecohome were already mulling over the idea of building a showcase green performance home as a teaching tool, and decided to give the new LEED V4 a test drive. We were already planning on building an ecologically ...

LEED Homes

Canada Ranks as the top country for LEED green building for second year in a row

...CaGBC: Renée Rietveld Manager, Communications and Media Relations, CaGBC 613-288-8075 Media Contact USGBC: Marisa Long Communications Director, USGBC 202-552-1500 About the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) The CaGBC is the leading national industry organization advancing green building and...

LEED Homes

LEED Platinum Home in British Columbia

A quick update: as of September 13 Beachaus II has officially been awarded LEED Platinum, the highest possible achievement in the LEED for homes rating system. Designed for active living and built to last – this ultra modern 2000 square foot, 3 bedroom, 4 bathroom home includes a large separate office/studio space and ...

LEED Homes

What is LEED?

...CaGBC (Canada Green Building Council) to encourage sustainable building practices. While the commercial program has been in effect for much longer, LEED for Homes Canada was developed in 2009, and applies to single-family homes and low-rise multi-family units up to 3 stories. Midrise residential buildings of 4 to 9 st...