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Cut Costs and Not Quality with your Kitchen Renovation
Cutting cost when renovating your kitchen can be done without sacrificing the end product. Regardless of your budget, while doing a kitchen renovation, there are areas to spend and areas to save. Good design, reputable trades and sleek appliances are areas where your money is well spent. Ways to keep your Kitchen Renovation costs down: … Read More
‘Light Up the Lanes’ Laneway House Tour Success
Klondike Contracting participated in the ‘Light Up the Lanes’ Laneway House Tour this past Saturday. With around 500 tickets purchased and proceeds going to the Vancouver Heritage Foundation, I would consider the event a great success. Ticket holders were invited to 6 Laneway Homes in the Vancouver area and were given from 1-5pm to visit … Read More
Laneway Housing Tour: Vancouver Heritage Foundation
The Vancouver Heritage Foundation is hosting “Light Up the Lanes” a fundraising tour of 6 recently completed Laneway Homes in the Vancouver area and Klondike Contracting’s most recent Laneway project has been chosen to partake in the event on Dec. 11 from 1-5 pm. You may ask why is the Vancouver Heritage Foundation is promoting … Read More
Laneway Housing: Its Origins and Hidden Benefits
Vancouver City Council unanimously adopted the EcoDensity Charter on June 10, 2008 along with a set of ‘Initial Actions’ designed to implement the first stage of the Charter. The EcoDensity Charter commits the City to make environmental sustainability its highest priority in all city planning decisions and it also aims to support housing affordability and … Read More
Retrofitting: Urban Densification & Affordable Space
In an ever growing city like Vancouver, where the current population density is the third highest of any metropolitan centre in North America, and the city’s metropolitan population is forecasted to reach 2.6 million by the year 2020; planners, architects and construction firms alike are now having to re-evaluate the traditional development methodologies that have made … Read More
Vancouver Lights Up
A new outdoor light installation called Ice Light by German artist Gunda Forster now lights up the edges of City Hall with a sparkling LED display, reducing the power consumption of City Hall’s exterior lights by 70%. As part of the legacy component of its Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program, the City of Vancouver … Read More
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