Ecohome demo house / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...houses are the same. The following diagram details the building envelope design of our LEED V4 Platinum certified Demo House. The drawing is not to scale, but performance values are accurate. Additional note:  stud cavities are filled with R24 mineral wool batts.       Now you know the building science b...

...House, the rest can be found on the RDI website   Ecohome's Kenogami House in northern Quebec was described by Alex Wilson of the Resilient Design Institute based in Brattleboro, Vermont, as "The most resilient house in North America."                                                                                 ***

...house sits at about grade at the north side, but needed about 3 feet of fill at the south edge to level the building site. Compacted slab on grade base © Ecohome A plate packer was used to tamp the ground in stages to ensure a solid base, as seen above. A retaining wall was built using rocks from the site to hold the...

...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 winter is...