LEED / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...LEED for Homes Platinum Rating in the Greater Toronto Area. It is currently a subject of post occupancy evaluation by Ryerson University Department of Architectural Science. Now you know about the results of the Net Zero Energy Pilot. Read more about sustainable and resilient home building in the Ecohome Green Buil...

...LEED-certified homes in the Saguenay region for 7 years but was previously doing general construction in the Montreal region since 1985. Resilient homes for protection from natural disasters Alain had lived through two traumatic events in Quebec: first the Saguenay Flood of July 1996, which was Canada’s first billion-d...

The guiding principles during the design of Ecohome’s Edelweiss House demonstration home - passive heating and cooling, healthy living space, affordable to build and operate, resilient and flexible design.  The underlying goal of the Edelweiss House was to design and build a modestly-sized but functional home that wou...

...LEED certification through the CaGBC, and this is how they went about it.  This is the second piece in a blog series written by Craig Anderson as he documents the design and construction of an off-grid LEED Gold passively-heated home. See post 1 of the off-grid homes blog here . or post 3 in the off-grid homes blog her...

...LEED green building rating system in Canada. In addition to LEED, the CaGBC also supports the Living Building Challenge, Passive House Standard and EcoDistricts in Canada. Media Contacts: Kathy Malangone, Senior Director, Marketing Communications McGraw Hill Construction   Renee Rietveld, Manager, Communications and ...

...LEED outside of the U.S. is based on cumulative gross square meters (GSM) of space certified to LEED in each nation as of April 2014. Canada has 17.74 million GSM of LEED-certified space, and in total, it has 4,068 LEED-certified and -registered projects representing 58.66 million GSM. About CaGBC The CaGBC is the lead...

...LEED Platinum home As homeowner and part of the Ecohome design team, Alain Hamel will continue to experiment with the latest energy systems to further enhance the performance and thermal comfort of his home. The next system to be installed will be an air-to-water heat pump which will serve as an air conditioner. In eff...

All homes need ventilation, whether natural or mechanical with an ERV or HRV system. Buildings and houses are no longer constructed leaking heat and moist air the way they used to be; we now build them as airtight as we can, especially Passive House or LEED certified homes. This makes mechanical ventilation essential i...

...LEED Version 4, the next exciting step in the continuous improvement of the LEED rating systems. The development of LEED v4 has spanned more than three years, engaged hundreds of volunteers and thousands of stakeholders around the world. LEED v4 has the potential to drive the reduction of building carbon emissions and ...

...LEED homes, and sustainable green building techniques on the pages below and in the Ecohome Green Building Guide. What is the LEED for Homes rating system about? All about the Passive House rating system  Take a tour of the first LEED V4 Platinum house in Canada All about home rating system and which is best fo...

...LEED rating system All about Passive House certification  See inside Canada's first LEED V4 Platinum passively heated house  All about home rating systems See here to learn about the benefits of a free Ecohome Network Membership, see here.