Container House Ontario/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...houses because they think they have insulation and they actually don't. Insulating paint often finds its way into a build when there is insufficient space to build properly, so it's sometimes found incontainerhouses and tinyhouses as well. People living in homes without proper insulation or the money to undertake ...

...housestandardhouses see here , to see more details on Architect designed prefabricated PassiveHouse& LEED ready Kit Homes available in Quebec,Ontario, New York, Vermont, Maine or New Hampshire here or see this Guide about PassiveHouseCertification in North America here , from the EcoHome Green Building Guides on...

...house, and allows the full enjoyment of the great outdoors in those areas known for an abundance of nature - including the insects that go with lakes and rivers in particular. A minimalist interior warmed by nature To expand the sensation of interior space, the Architect team at Studio MMA decided to work with a mi...

Bluewater Health announced today that it has been selected as one of the first Canadian hospitals – and the first acute care hospital inOntario– to achieve LEED® certification. Bluewater Health’s construction of a 588,000-square-foot complex at the hospital’s Sarnia location consisted of a new addition attached to...

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...Houseor CoachHousecan take up to 24 months to go through the permitting and construction phases. Expect to pay an additional 20 to 30% for soft costs for a tinyhouseon a foundation rather than hooking up a TinyHouseon wheels. Do TinyHousebuilders need to be RV certified? No, TinyHousebuilders do not need...

...House, the rest can be found on the RDI website Ecohome's KenogamiHousein northern Quebec was described by Alex Wilson of the Resilient Design Institute based in Brattleboro, Vermont, as " The most resilienthousein North America. " ***

...housesits at about grade at the north side, but needed about 3 feet of fill at the south edge to level the building site. Compacted slab on grade base © Ecohome A plate packer was used to tamp the ground in stages to ensure a solid base, as seen above. A retaining wall was built using rocks from the site to ho...

...housewill have minimal heat requirements, so it will not need the same investment (often $10-20,000) in furnaces, ductwork, boilers, heat pumps etc. In ahousethat doesn't hemorrhage heat the way we are used to seeing, you may only need a small centralized heat source such as a single electric radiator, purchased a...

...house: The first two years thehousewas used as a demonstrationhouseto show what could be achieved in energy conservation and more than 30,000 people visited thehouse. At the end of the two years thehouse被卖给了一个家庭，太阳能收集器被拆除了，灰色的水热回收单元也被rem…

...Housecontinues to act as a laboratory for resilient, cold climate building practices. Through software energy modeling it was determined that the KenogamiHousewould likely require 14.6 kWh of heat per square metre per year, but its actual performance seems to be even better. What we have learned this first winter ...