Why build leed / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...LEED certification and Passive House certification. Enjoy their story of building a LEED certified Passive House...                                                                  *** Building any house requires a fair amount of planning - long before the shovel hits the dirt - but building a Passive House takes that ...

...building envelope is air-tightness. There used to be ideas floating around that a house needed to 'breathe', but these ideas have long since been discredited, and high quality builders now look to build houses as tightly as possible, and actively bring in fresh air with a device like a heat recovery ventilator (HRV). ...

...building certification, advocacy and information sharing. The CaGBC is the license holder for the 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. About LEED in Canada LEED is a third-party certifi...

...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 about the LEED rating system All about Passive House certification  See inside Canada's first LEED V4 Platinum passively heated house  All about hom...

...buildings to counteract the steady decline of ecosystem health worldwide." Now that you know 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 All about the Pa...

...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 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...