kenogami / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...Kenogami House.  The acronym: E - Energy efficient - a high performance home must comprise efficient energy systems and an energy efficient building envelope N - Non-toxic - creating a healthy interior living environment, safe from harmful contaminants D - Durable - a home built to last spreads its ecological footprint...

...Kenogami House is located at Lac Kenogami, Saguenay, Quebec, and is a winner of the Green Builder® Home of the Year Awards from Green Builder Media®  This is a passively heated 1,950 net square feet, 3 bedroom home rated at 15 kWh per square meter per year that was built according to the acronym ENDURE: Energy efficien...

...Kenogami House, which is a model of both sustainability and resilience. Read More... Among his many initiatives, Alex Wilson is an author and the founder of the Resilient Design Institute, Environmental Building News, Greenspec, and BuildingGreen. this is an excerpt of what he had to say about the Kenogami House, the r...

...Kenogami House was designed with in-floor radiant heat, orginally supplied by a condensing boiler.   The super high-efficiency building envelope of the Net Zero designed Kenogami House is so well-insulated that should the heating system ever completely fail, the house would never fall below freezing. If weather conspir...

...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 be even better. What we have learned this first ...