LEED for Homes Checklist courtesy CaGBC
The checklist will help you understand the requirements for each LEED category, and help you decide on your targeted level of certification. It will not only be used for the evaluation of your project, but you can use it for tracking your progress. The checklist will allow you to:
Yes, any homeowner or builder is allowed to submit the application and manage the build without being a LEED AP (Accredited Professional), or even having a LEED AP on your design team. You could receive a point towards certification by having an AP on your design team, but it isn't mandatory. Here is a page to get you started -
How to build a LEED Certified Home
What you need to do first is contact a LEED provider in your region, it is with them that you will make your submission and they will perform a preliminary rating to see if how your design would score. This step allows you to see where your design falls on the point scale, and to see if changes are necessary to help you meet your own targeted goal.
Below are some pages that may be of value depending on how familiar you already are with the rating system. We built the first LEED v4 Platinum house in Canada a few years ago (linked below); in there you can find your way to the video guide we created following its construction, that may be of value to you as well. Also check out the following pages, best of luck!
Hi Alyne, We have a number of prefab modular Kit houses that can meet LEED or Passive House performance standards here on this page -
LEED and Passive House ready prefab modular kit houses for Canada and the US
We can't get you one right way in Washington but we are hoping to be able to supply energy efficient prefab houses to the West Coast in US and Canada in the near future. If you fill out the 'request a quote' form that can be found on each different model you can get more info on particular house designs, and we will be able to send you an email when there are some available in your region. How soon are you building?
It's nice to hear that you like the site, thanks. We don’t have any products to offer, we are a web resource for learning advance and sustainable building practices but we can offer some insight.
Given the highway limitations in terms of vehicle width, it is difficult to insulate mobile homes well without coughing up a lot of interior space. Because of that, people often choose a wood-framed interior and spray foam. That would provide a high per-inch R value, but the air tightness an be affected as spray foam is not flexible once it sets, so if your bounce it down the highway, it may not have a very good air barrier, so you might want a separate membrane.
There are two companies we know of that have switched to more environmentally friendly blowing agents, Elastochem and Demilec. And below is a link to the best built tiny house we have come across, as well as a link to all our tiny house pages. That should help you come up with a good design.
Here are some other pages on tiny houses, the best one we've seen used Rockwool insulation and a separate air barrier membrane.
The best tiny house we've seen so far
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