Platinum / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

The Rainbow Duplex in Whistler is the first Passive House in BC The passive solar design and orientation of homes is anything but new. Solar heat collection is a technique that has been used in home construction for thousands of years. What is relatively new is the rating system developed to certify them. The Passive H...

...Platinum Certification in cold climates like Ontario, New York, Vermont, Maine or New Hampshire.  The ribbon was cut on the first prefab kit house model at Expo Habitat 2019 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada where the Eco-Habitat S1600 model was assembled in its entirety in the Montreal Stadium, allowing visitors to walk thr...