"LEED"

LEED / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

HRV and ERV

Choosing between an HRV and an ERV

All homes need ventilation, whether natural or mechanical with an ERV or HRV system. Buildings and houses are no longer constructed leaking heat and moist air the way they used to be; we now build them as airtight as we can, especially Passive House or LEED certified homes. This makes mechanical ventilation essential i...

LEED Homes

What is different with LEED V4?

...LEED Version 4, the next exciting step in the continuous improvement of the LEED rating systems. The development of LEED v4 has spanned more than three years, engaged hundreds of volunteers and thousands of stakeholders around the world. LEED v4 has the potential to drive the reduction of building carbon emissions and ...

LEED Homes

Quebec carpentry students to build LEED house for Habitat for Humanity

...LEED homes, and sustainable green building techniques on the pages below and in the Ecohome Green Building Guide. What is the LEED for Homes rating system about? All about the Passive House rating system Take a tour of the first LEED V4 Platinum house in Canada All about home rating system and which is best fo...

Lifestyle, location and commuting

Sustainable building practices create prosperous communities

...LEED rating system All about Passive House certification See inside Canada's first LEED V4 Platinum passively heated house All about home rating systems See here to learn about the benefits of a free Ecohome Network Membership, see here.

Efficient home design

The Kenogami House: designed to ENDURE

Alex Wilson is the founder of the journal Environmental Building News, Green Building, GreenSpec and recently the Resilient Design Institute. The following is a brief description of his vision, and the steps our team took as designers, builders and homeowners to meet that criteria for the Kenogami House. The acronym: ...

LEED Homes

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

...LEED project in 2005, the 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 gree...

LEED Homes

The Canada Green Building Council announces affordable green housing program

...LEED Gold Certification from the CaGBC. They are now all occupied by very happy families. “Through the generosity and foresight of the Canada Green Building Council, we were able to take the LEED process through to completion,” says Sandy Hopkins, CEO of Habitat for Humanity Manitoba. “The energy and water efficiency o...

LEED Homes

The LEED for Homes Checklist

...LEED for Homes rating system. Find more pages about sustainable construction below and in the Ecohome Green Building Guide pages. All about the LEED for Homes rating system Ecohome builds Canada's first LEED V4 Platinum home All you need to know about achieving Passive House certification Resilient design featu...

Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

Off-grid living blog: a firsthand account of building and living in a remote area

...LEED Green Rater Mike Reynolds. Their recent LEED V4 Platinum Edelweiss House is significantly more efficient than our home, and was also cheaper to build, as they did it with only a standard 2x6 wall and lots of exterior insulation. Needless to say, though the house that we have built is a very good one, there are man...

Lighting

All about LED bulbs - video

How to choose the best LED bulbs and DIY lighting fixture installation tips. LED bulbs are here to stay, it's time to make the leap. The colours are warmer now, the bulbs are dimable and the price is coming down. Incandescent bulbs give off lots of unwanted heat, which in summer months makes your air conditioning syst...

Bathrooms

Efficient toilets for LEED homes

Toilets usually account for about a third of the indoor water use in a home, so toilets that carry the EPA WaterSense® label are a great place to start looking. Then comes the choice of either single flush or dual flush- it's a bit of a toss up but in the end we chose to go with single flush models, because when human ...