Work recently began on Ottawa’s Gladstone Village, a multi-phase development that will, in its first stage, introduce 336 new affordable homes to Ottawa.
Tag: Passive House
The Harmony Commons Student Residence at University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) has been named the largest Passive House certified building in Canada.
Airtightness and moisture management luncheon
(03/05/2024)
The Airtightness and Moisture Management presentation is a fresh look at the features of resilient and efficient envelope design. Attendees learn about key layers of a building envelope, and how a well-planned weather, air,...
Figurr Architects Collective (Figurr) has designed 159 Forward Avenue, an affordable housing project in Ottawa, which meets Passive House performance standards, and is three times more energy-efficient than previous projects built for the Centretown...
The SoLo residence is a prototype redefining off-grid living in the remote Soo Valley of B.C., challenging conventions in aesthetics and construction, serving as a testing ground for innovative low-energy systems, healthy materials, and...
Passive House buildings incorporating stone wool insulation contribute to performance objectives and allow for considerable design freedom in the building envelope design. Depending on the construction type, above-grade wall assemblies can be designed using...
The passive-house retrofit of an almost half-century old auto garage in Eastern Townships, Quebec, has produced excellent energy efficiency results for the property, and will soon achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)...
Intelligent City, an innovative urban housing company, combining mass timber construction, manufacturing automation, and software technology will collaborate with the Vancouver Native Housing Society (VNHS) to supply a Passive House facade system for VNHS’s...
Integrating mass timber in low-rise construction
(09/08/2023)
With operating energy reductions now incentivized by Passive House Canada and zero-carbon building programs, alongside incremental improvements mandated in legislation such as theBC Energy Step Code, increased attention is being given to the embodied...
New Passive House-certified faculty and staff rental housing at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, will aid in future research relating to lifecycle performance of similar buildings, focused at helping the broader development community design...
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