Tag Archives: Green Building
Built Green Across Canada
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
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
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!
Benefits of Green Roofs
Green roofs are vegetated roof systems that passively perform no less than 8 highly beneficial and cost-saving functions, including stormwater runoff reduction, heating and cooling load reduction, and extending the service life of the roof by 40 -60 years. They also mitigate urban heat island effect, absorb carbon dioxide, sequester air-borne particulates, provide urban wildlife … Read More
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