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Planning and Design

Zero Carbon Homes - The S1600 Prefab Eco Home gets affordably Close

...houses. Doing a carbon footprint lifecycle analysis early in the design phase allows designers and architects to see where a building is scoring high, and to find alterative products to lower the total greenhouse gas emissions of the home design. The software program allows entry of the quantities and types of materi...

Healthy indoor air quality

How to keep wildfire smoke out of homes with mechanical ventilation systems?

How to protect indoor air quality from smoke during wildfires in homes with HVAC? As we move towards summer in Canada and the USA, we're hoping that last years wildfires are not going to be as bad again this year - but unfortunately in areas like Calgary and the North East of the USA, there have already been air qualit...

Tiny house

Are Tiny Houses for sale locally a good choice for a first home?

...Houses and resilient green building techniques here : See more photos of tiny houses & laneway homes See architect designed prefab tiny houses for sale How to stay on budget when building a home Ontario clarifies building-code for permits for laneway homes & legal tiny houses in Toronto What are the...