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Modern living room with acoustic cork wall panels and soft natural lighting.
Concept and design

Silent architecture: focusing on acoustic wellness in homes

...building professional, this means offering cognitive comfort as a premium feature; for the homeowner, it means finally finding peace and quiet in an increasingly noisy world. Now that you know more about silent architecture, find more info about acoustic comfort and green building techniques in the Ecohome Green Buildi...

Habitat workers raise a wall at the the Red River Ex June 2011
LEED Homes

The Canada Green Building Council announces affordable green housing program

...green building trends. Find more pages about sustainable and resilient green building techniques here on these pages and in the Ecohome Green Building Guide pages  Learn all about the LEED rating system here A builders guide to how to get Passive House certification  See the inside of Canada's first LEED V4 Plati...

CaGBC, LEED green building trends
LEED Homes

New report shows Canadian green building market growing steadily with owners seeing strong benefits from building green.

...green. Survey respondents also recognized that building green is key to the creation of high performing buildings. 62% of the building owners, architects and contractors surveyed considered having a higher-quality building as an important benefit of green building. 73% of the firms that use a green building rating sy...