Tag Archives: Green Building

Klondike’s Top 8 sustainable ideas for quick fixes around your home!

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Here are Klondike’s Top 8 sustainable project ideas for your home this Summer: Reduce your waste water – Toilets and showers use up 30-40% of our domestic water. By installing high efficiency or low-flow toilets and showerheads you could your family could save over 30,000 liters of water a year Save rain water with a … Read More

Inside Look: Upcoming Renovation and Construction Events

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There are two very interesting upcoming events for you renovation & construction enthusiasts out there.  Both events have a GREEN twist in keeping with this budding Spring season and are worthy to mark on your calendar. Downtown Robert Lee YMCA Project – March 30th: The Vancouver Heritage Foundation has started a brown bag lunch lecture … Read More

Built Green Across Canada

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The non-profit Built Green Canada, which has enrolled 13,465 homes in Alberta and British Columbia since 2004, will soon be helping home builders across Canada construct homes with a lighter environmental footprint. Build Green is a voluntary program that offers building standards, mandatory builder training and third-party testing, inspections and audits.  It encourages homebuilders to … Read More

Homeowner Protection Office: Building Smart

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We have never shared internal communication between staff and management on our blog but this particular email contains very exciting information for our industry.  Keep in mind that the information in the email is by no means set in stone, but rather things we can expect to happen in our industry in the next year … Read More

KC’s New soon to be LEED Certified Home

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As you may know, we have been experiencing some growing pains and have finally secured a new space!  Soon we can reminisce on the days when we all shared offices, phones, etc.  We will be featuring the renovation of our new space in the coming weeks.  It is going to be our first LEED project … Read More

Laneway Housing APPROVED!

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