2022/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...2022have been launched to help homeowners make their homes more energy-efficient, create new jobs across Canada for energy advisors, grow domestic green supply chains, and help fight climate change. So, the question remains, what can it pay for and how to apply for the Canada greener homes grant? What grants are ava...

...2022, to help up to 200,000 homeowners complete deep home retrofits in Canada through interest-free loans of up to $40,000 to make poorly-built homes significantly more energy efficient. $40k Interest-Free Loans for Green Home Renos in Canada, Eligibility and How to Apply Details will soon be available on the $40,0...

Top Sustainable Construction Trends for 2020 There are always new green building products coming out that lead to more efficient, more durable or more eco-friendly homes. But most of what grabbed our attention this past year, and the things that we will see through 2020, are perhaps best described as sustainable con...

...2022. To help make large commercial buildings more energy efficient, the government also announced a competition to create four $100-million long-term funds to help attract private capital that can be used for deep retrofits of large buildings such as office towers. Net Zero Home builder training programs The...

How & why we celebrate Earth Day, April 22nd Earth Day is one of the few globally celebrated days of observance in the world, with more than a billion people joining together in past years to show their support for environmental protection. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day (learn the history here) o...

根据我们对2020年绿色建筑的预测，Dodge Data & Analytics刚刚发布了一项关于预制和模块化建筑的里程碑式研究结果。The Prefabrication and Modular Construction 2020 SmartMarket Report (download below) was published with the support of Bradley Corp., the Modular...

In our previous article we discussed the building trend in Vancouver known as Laneway Housing, where new homes are being created in backyards, accessed by lanes in the centre of city blocks. More densely populated neighbourhoods means more efficient use of city services, and a more vibrant and active local business ...

Vancouver has set a goal of being the greenest city in the world by the year 2020 . Some of the policies included in that plan are expanded public transportation, bike lanes, encouraging laneway houses for urban density and requiring all new civic buildings to be zero emissions. The city has also imposed upon itself...

...2022The ICF construction industry is poised for further growth in the year ahead - but lumber costs have stabilized, once again favoring stick frame construction - especially as the start of2022will see a rumored increase in the costs of ICF foam blocks in the near future. All the same, I predict that history will s...

Naikoon Contracting Ltd . is embarking on a new residential project that's expected to achieve some of the highest green residential construction standards in the country. "Our goal is to take current green residential building standards to the next level by employing some of the most advanced sustainable systems an...

The Rainbow Duplex in Whistler was a BC First 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 House or Passi...