LEED / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Alex Wilson is the founder of the journal Environmental Building News, Green Building, GreenSpec and recently the Resilient Design Institute. The following is a brief description of his vision, and the steps our team took as designers, builders and homeowners to meet that criteria for the Kenogami House. The acronym: E...

...LEED project in 2005, the CaGBC collected data over the next eight years, measuring the direct impact LEED Canada made on various aspects of the environment, including greenhouse gas emissions, national energy and water consumption and waste diversion. The results were compelling: A 312,006 C02e tonne reduction in gree...

...LEED Gold Certification from the CaGBC. They are now all occupied by very happy families. “Through the generosity and foresight of the Canada Green Building Council, we were able to take the LEED process through to completion,” says Sandy Hopkins, CEO of Habitat for Humanity Manitoba. “The energy and water efficiency o...

...LEED for Homes rating system. Find more pages about sustainable construction below and in the Ecohome Green Building Guide pages. All about the LEED for Homes rating system Ecohome builds Canada's first LEED V4 Platinum home All you need to know about achieving Passive House certification Resilient design featu...

LEED Canada for Homes Providers: Atlantic Canada: Quebec: ThermalWise ThermalWise is Atlantic Canada’s leading building performance consulting company. We support building owners, developers, designers, contractors, property managers and communities to be more sustainable, and energy-efficient while also c...

...LEED for Homes prerequisites. Find more pages about sustainable construction below and in the Ecohome Green Building Guide pages. All about the LEED for Homes rating system Ecohome builds Canada's first LEED V4 Platinum home All you need to know about achieving Passive House certification Resilient design featu...

...LEED for Homes:  Originating in the USA, LEED is currently the most prolific green building rating system and stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. LEED was created by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). To quote the U.S Office of Federal Environmental Executive, 'green building’ is defined as ...

...LEED Gold-targeted project. LEED home in Mulmur, Ontario.© Shai Gil Photography LEED home in Mulmur, Ontario. © Shai Gil Photography LEED home in Mulmur, Ontario. © Shai Gil Photography LEED home in Mulmur, Ontario. © Shai Gil Photography LEED home in Mulmur, Ontario. ...

...LEED homes in the Yukon. © Forest Pearson Now you know more about LEED Homes in the far north of Canada and the US. Find more pages about sustainable construction below and in the Ecohome Green Building Guide pages. All about the LEED for Homes rating system Ecohome builds Canada's first LEED V4 Plat...

...LEED certification companies. There were a total of 110 possible LEED® points available for certifying homes. The number of points your project earned determined its level of final LEED® certification as follows: LEED® Certified: 40-49 points LEED® Silver rated: 50-59 points LEED® Gold rated: 60-79 points LEED®...

...LEED Certified builders? There are no LEED certified builders, only LEED certified buildings. To build a home to LEED certification is something that is accessible to anyone, no accreditation is required to undertake the process. It is simply a matter of registering your project and successfully completing the requirem...