Day 2 at GreenBuild 2014! By: greening homes

October 25, 2014
Community, Green Materials, Resource Efficiency

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 […]

Read More

GH Wins 2014 Innovation in Sustainability Award By: greening homes

October 23, 2014
Announcements, Awards

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. […]

Read More

Day 1 at GreenBuild 2014! By: greening homes

October 23, 2014
Community, Green Materials, Resource Efficiency

  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 […]

Read More

Green Energy Doors Open a Great Success! By: greening homes

October 9, 2014
Announcements, Community

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 […]

Read More

We’ve exceeded Passive House Standard – UPDATE By: greening homes

October 2, 2014
Announcements, Project Update

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 […]

Read More

Greening Homes Project Selected as CaGBC Award Finalist By: greening homes

September 20, 2014
Announcements, Awards

Greening Homes is incredibly proud to announce that our Beechwood Deep Energy Retrofit has been selected as one of three finalists in the Innovation in Sustainability category for the CaGBC’s Toronto Chapter Innovation in LEED Awards. Toronto Atmospheric Fund and Harbourfront Centre were the other two finalists. This annual event recognizes best-in-class projects and programs […]

Read More

BEST PRACTICE WINDOW INSTALLATION By: greening homes

September 20, 2014
Green Materials, Project Update, Resource Efficiency

* This project has been selected as one of three finalists in the Innovation in Sustainability category for the CaGBC’s Toronto Chapter Innovation in LEED awards. Drop by the site for a tour on Saturday October 4th as part of Ontario Sustainable Energy Association’s Green Energy Doors Open Event. — We recently installed high performance windows at our Deep Energy Retrofit […]

Read More

48 Ramps Built with StopGap for the Annex! By: greening homes

September 11, 2014
Community

Building on our great relationship with the StopGap team, our GH crew volunteered their time to build ramps for neighbourhood businesses in the Annex. This was our biggest build yet, and all 48 ramps were constructed and primed in short order. We had five GH members out to cut, build and prime the ramps while […]

Read More