LEED Platinum/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

The guiding principles during the design of Ecohome’s demonstration home: Passive heating and cooling, healthy living space, affordable to build and operate, resilient and flexible design. The underlying goal of the Ecohome Demo House was to design and build a modestly-sized but functional home that would greatly ou...

...LEED, or to Learn What Questions you Should Ask a Solar Panel Contractor , you can find all you need in the Ecohome Green Building Guide Pages at Ecohome.net, and if you don't find what you are looking for, ask a pro a question in our discussion forum .

...LEEDpoints as well. Recycled concrete polished slab © Ecohome There is an often overlooked advantage when you choose a slab over a basement - concrete is very expensive, so the reduced amount of concrete used in a slab along with not needing to install a subfloor and finished flooring product translates into a...

...LEED®Platinumcertification and Novoclimat if in Canada - as standard! Every tiny detail of design has been optimized for performance in the Abri range of high-end prefab eco homes - especially around the high performance door and window openings - and eliminates thermal bridging . "We have acheived an outstand...

Along with its unprecedented achievements, the Kenogami House continues to act as a laboratory for resilient, cold climate building practices. Through software energy modeling it was determined that the Kenogami House would likely require 14.6 kWh of heat per square metre per year, but its actual performance seems to ...

...LEEDfor Homes Durability Evaluation Form. This is the same document as the checklist, all the forms you will need for aLEEDproject are accessible through tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet.

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...LEEDprefab kit house being built inside the Montreal stadium for Expo 2019 Carbon emergency: Targeting the grey energy of buildings New construction in both residential and commercial applications are increasingly being built to higher standards of energy-efficiency and overall sustainability . This building t...

...LEEDPlatinumV4 Wall Design: Building Science The wall we designed for the Edelweiss house, Canada's firstLEEDPlatinumV4 Home is best categorized as a 'REMOTE' wall, a high performance building envelope developed by the Cold Climate Housing Research Centre in Alaska. REMOTE stands for 'Residential Exterior Me...

...LEED, Passive House and Zero Net Energy ready kit homes sector in Quebec, Ontario and North Eastern US States such as New York, Vermont, Maine or New Hampshire. What is driving building professionals to prefab & modular construction methods? Trends in the construction industry, such as shorter project schedules, su...

...LEED-certified homes in the Saguenay region for 7 years but was previously doing general construction in the Montreal region since 1985. Interest in resilience driven by natural disasters Alain had lived through two traumatic events in Quebec: first the Saguenay Flood of July 1996, which was Canada’s first billion-...