Vancouver / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

The Third Space Commons building UBC
Zero Carbon Building

BC's budding carbon zero building ambitions on track for success at UBC...

...Vancouver This is an interesting and progressive project brought to completion by Third Quadrant Design in Vancouver, which was founded in 2019 by three female engineering students to fill the gap in green building education at UBC. Their mission is to spread the knowledge of net-zero carbon and net-zero energy design...

Passive House

The North Park Passive House on Vancouver Island, BC

...Vancouver Island BC Passive House interior kitchen design Vancouver Island BC   Passive House Floorplans Vancouver Island BC Passive House Wall Design details Vancouver Island BC Passive House Walls windowsill design details Vancouver Island BC Passive House Insula...

Bike lanes in Vancouver
Lifestyle, location and commuting

Vancouver's goal of becoming the Greenest City by 2020

...Vancouver a green city with easy public transportation? The city of Vancouver continues to go to great lengths to make it a liveable city with a dense urban core and excellent public transportation. In an effort to increase affordable housing and  reduce urban sprawl, the city is offering incentives to add rental livin...

Vancouver's first laneway home in 2010
Accessory dwelling units (ADU)

Vancouver laneway homes, ADUs & multiplexes in 2025

...Vancouver in light of these new regulations.   Laneway homes in Vancouver come in all styles - Lanefab Major update: Vancouver's new housing rules for single-family lots In November 2023, the City of Vancouver enacted sweeping zoning changes, largely in response to the BC government's Bill 44. The old RS (single-fa...