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LEED / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

B.C.’s First Passive House was built in Whistler in 2012.

The Rainbow Duplex in Whistler is the first Passive House in BC The passive solar design and orientation of homes is anything but new. Solar heat collection is a technique that has been used in home construction for thousands of years. What is relatively new is the rating system developed to certify them. The Passive H...

Concept and design

Prefab Passive House & LEED ready kit homes - the future of buying a new home?

...LEED & Passive House ready prefab kit home, see many more sustainable home building tips & guide videos for LEED, Zero Energy & Passive House on the EcoHome YouTube channel here Super-insulated wall assembly, in kit form The prefab high-performance walls of this Passive House & LEED ready home kit are m...

Tiny house

Tiny houses - Washington State promotes tiny homes & eco-villages for affordable Housing in WA

WA paves the way for tiny home eco-villages: Tiny houses, also colloquially referred to as tiny homes, are both an increasingly attractive and affordable housing option as well as a trending alternative lifestyle choice across North America and Canada as people realize that “quality of life” doesn’t depend on surroundi...

Renewable energy

Which is the best type of home energy generation for green homes?

...LEED, Passive House or even Zero Net Energy Home is now so minimal (if you're talking to the right Home Builders, it's around 5% - which you'll save on utility bills in no time). The best route forward may of course be different when talking about an old inefficient home that could require a colossal investment to impr...

Real estate

Farnham Avenue House

...LEED for Homes Platinum Rating in the Greater Toronto Area. It is currently a subject of post occupancy evaluation by Ryerson University Department of Architectural Science. Now you know about the results of the Net Zero Energy Pilot. Read more about sustainable and resilient home building in the Ecohome Green Buil...

Efficient home design

"The Most Resilient House in North America"

...LEED-certified homes in the Saguenay region for 7 years but was previously doing general construction in the Montreal region since 1985. Resilient homes for protection from natural disasters Alain had lived through two traumatic events in Quebec: first the Saguenay Flood of July 1996, which was Canada’s first billion-d...

Efficient home design

Ecohome Demo House: high performance, affordable cost

The guiding principles during the design of Ecohome’s Edelweiss House demonstration home - passive heating and cooling, healthy living space, affordable to build and operate, resilient and flexible design. The underlying goal of the Edelweiss House was to design and build a modestly-sized but functional home that wou...

Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

Off grid living blog, part 2: passively heated, this house in Quebec aims for LEED certification

...LEED certification through the CaGBC, and this is how they went about it. This is the second piece in a blog series written by Craig Anderson as he documents the design and construction of an off-grid LEED Gold passively-heated home. See post 1 of the off-grid homes blog here . or post 3 in the off-grid homes blog her...

LEED Homes

New report shows Canadian green building market growing steadily with owners seeing strong benefits from building green.

...LEED green building rating system in Canada. In addition to LEED, the CaGBC also supports the Living Building Challenge, Passive House Standard and EcoDistricts in Canada. Media Contacts: Kathy Malangone, Senior Director, Marketing Communications McGraw Hill Construction [email protected] (212) 904-4376 Renee R...

LEED Homes

The top 10 countries outside the U.S. certifying buildings with the LEED rating system

...LEED outside of the U.S. is based on cumulative gross square meters (GSM) of space certified to LEED in each nation as of April 2014. Canada has 17.74 million GSM of LEED-certified space, and in total, it has 4,068 LEED-certified and -registered projects representing 58.66 million GSM. The full ranking can be seen on t...

Passive solar home design

Ecohome Kenogami House wins Home of the Year Award

...LEED Platinum home As homeowner and part of the Ecohome design team, Alain Hamel will continue to experiment with the latest energy systems to further enhance the performance and thermal comfort of his home. The next system to be installed will be an air-to-water heat pump which will serve as an air conditioner. In eff...