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Why build leed / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Passive House

An owner/builder's account of building a Passive House

...LEED certification and Passive House certification. Enjoy their story of building a LEED certified Passive House... *** Building any house requires a fair amount of planning - long before the shovel hits the dirt - but building a Passive House takes that ...

LEED Homes

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

...building certification, advocacy and information sharing. The CaGBC is the license holder for the 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. About LEED in Canada LEED is a third-party certifi...

Lifestyle, location and commuting

Sustainable building practices create prosperous communities

...building councils representing 98 countries attended the event, which is now in its fourth year. Now that you know green building trends. Find more pages about sustainable and resilient green building techniques here on these pages and in the Ecohome Green Building Guide pages Learn about the LEED rating system ...

LEED Homes

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

...buildings to counteract the steady decline of ecosystem health worldwide." Now that you know green building trends. Find more pages about sustainable and resilient green building techniques here on these pages and in the Ecohome Green Building Guide pages Learn all about the LEED rating system All about the Pa...

Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

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

...building envelope is air-tightness. There used to be ideas floating around that a house needed to 'breathe', but these ideas have long since been discredited, and high quality builders now look to build houses as tightly as possible, and actively bring in fresh air with a device like a heat recovery ventilator (HRV). ...

LEED Homes

The 19 LEED for Homes prerequisites

...LEED for Homes prerequisites. 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...

LEED Homes

The LEED rating system

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

LEED Homes

Why build LEED?

...LEED Certified builders? There are no LEED certified builders, only LEED certified buildings. To build a home to LEED certification is something that is accessible to anyone, no accreditation is required to undertake the process. It is simply a matter of registering your project and successfully completing the requirem...