It’s Day 2 here at GreenBuild 2014: New Orleans. I’m off to the Rock ‘N Bowl for a zydeco concert tonight. This’ll be a short post! GreenBuild always introduces one or two neat new things worth a call out. This year, all conference attendees were provided with hotel room card keys made of FSC-certified birch […]
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We are incredibly proud to announce that our Beechwood project won in the Innovation in Sustainability category for the CaGBC GTA Chapter’s annual awards. We beat out some heavy competition from Toronto Atmospheric Fund and the Harbourfront Centre. Steven and Chris accepted the award and the homeowners, Andrew and Maria attended the gala as well. […]
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GH President Chris Phillips will be blogging daily about his experiences in New Orleans at the Greenbuild Conference. — Hello from New Orleans and GreenBuild 2014! Once again, this conference — produced by the United States Green Building Council and the largest green building convention in North America — is enormous, with almost 40 […]
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We had an amazing turn out for our Green Energy Doors Open Event at our Beechwood Deep Energy Retrofit last weekend. We had over 120 visitors with lots of familiar faces. Previous and current clients, as well as industry professionals and the curious general public came by. We actually had a line up before we […]
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UPDATE – Recent testing, again by BlueGreen Group, shows that this project further exceeds the Passive House standard for air sealing in new construction. After drywall, the home achieved 0.44 ACH, compared to 0.52 ACH pre-drywall and 0.6 ACH for new Passive House construction. Also, this project is now one of three finalists in the […]
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