Energy positive buildings/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...buildingsthat produce moreenergyover their lifetime than they will use. There are already manypositive-productionbuildingswith corresponding standards, but a Powerhouse certified building goes beyondenergyperformance and generation to include the full lifecycle. In short, the entire ecological footprint of the ...

...energybiils? Better known Green building certification programs such as Passive House and LEED are a great start, but some other programs that may be on the fringe at the moment like PowerhousePositiveEnergyBuildings, Living Building Challenge (LBC) rating or Net ZeroEnergyor ZNE labelled homes are the future ...

...energyefficiency. Plumbing infrastructure © Ecohome You need to be very sure about the placement of plumbing at this point as concrete is not so forgiving when it comes to making changes afterwards. You will need to pour concrete right up to drains in the floor, but for sink and bathtub drains that you will no...

...Energywebsite is championed by LumosEnergy, CleanEnergyAdvisor and Mentor to Indigenous communities across Canada. LumosEnergybrings extensive experience and innovative strategies to cleanenergyproject development generating a suite of social and economic benefits for Indigenous communities and peoples. We are ...

...buildingsunder construction. It offers a higher density and higher R-value per inch than EPS (expanded polystyrene) but because of its lower cost, EPS offers more R-value per dollar spent. Manufacturers of XPS and EPS claim both products can be recycled, but a complete life cycle analysis shows EPS having a better o...

...energyto compensate for your personal consumption, so that much less power will be generated through more harmful methods. Bullfrog operates under the same principle, so you can give yourself the same pat on the back for generating power. They simply inject an amount of greenenergyequal to your consumption into th...

...EnergyHomes? In a nut shell, a Net ZeroEnergyHouse is one that produces as muchenergyas it consumes. It starts with anenergyefficient building envelope, high-quality windows , high-efficiency heating and ventilation systems to keep the overall consumption of the home as low as possible, and then renewable ener...

...energyperformance. It also leads to the use of spray polyethylene foam since it has a higher R value per inch, and while spray foam works well, the problem is that most brands of spray foam insulation have high greenhouse gas emissions. Read here about how to find more environmentally-friendly spray foam with lower em...

...energyfor swimming pools and hot tub operation here . We’re going to start by tips to conserveenergyover the years, right when planning a pool... Want to reduceenergycosts for swimming pool heating? Reduce heat loss & maximize free heat gains... Tips to reduceenergy1)池内…

...ENERGYSTAR approved appliances and other electronics of today use just a fraction of the power of their predecessors. Put all of these trends together, and it is now possible to use all off-the-shelf products from standard stores, as long as the most efficient of available options are chosen. The one thing that is...

...energythat was available in the past, drawing in endless fresh air and removing moisture. We just kept pumping inenergyto replace the heat that was escaping in every direction and all was well in the world - or so we thought, before we knew better. Also, a home's interior walls were finished with real plaster in t...