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tiny house / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

LEED Homes

The Canada Green Building Council (CAGBC) measures the environmental benefit of the LEED for Homes program.

...house gas emissions, national energy and water consumption and waste diversion. The results were compelling: A 312,006 C02e tonne reduction in greenhouse gas emissions which equates to taking 58,980 cars off the roads for a year. Energy savings of 1,600,321 eMWh, enough to power 54,307 homes in Canada for a full year....

LEED Homes

LEED Platinum Home in British Columbia

...House certification Resilient design features to make homes more livable and last longer Discover all the benefits of a free Ecohome Network Membership here - promote your business and get access to discount pricing on select building materials!

Green building certifications

All about green home certification programs and rating systems for USA & Canada

...House would be expected to operate approximately 90% more efficiently than a house built to code. That is pretty close to a Net Zero house, often a modest rooftop solar panel system is all it takes to achieve the elusive $0 utility bill. R-2000 homes: This rating system was created in the early 80’s by the Canadian...

LEED Homes

What is LEED?

...House certification Future-proof building techniques for a changing climate See different tiny house designs and models Find more about green home construction and reap the benefits of a free Ecohome Network Membership here.

Foundation choices

Slab-on-grade vs foundation and crawlspace or basement

...house gases, and the average home foundation wall uses between 75 and 100 tons. It will also account for between 10 to 15 percent of the total building costs, which does not include finishing the inside basement walls, or building a floor on top of it. And if you remember the 'One-Tonne Challenge' that asked Canadians ...

Lifestyle and environment

Green buildings are better situated to handle climate extremes

...house gases through energy efficiency and renewable/low-carbon energy supplies. "Every building is designed for a specific range of conditions, such as peak temperature, storm surge and average precipitation. Climate change has the potential to undermine some of these assumptions and potentially increase risks to peop...

How to Find Qualified Green Building Professionals

Hiring professionals or doing it yourself

...House pre-fab kit homes. There are two significant environmental benefits with prefab houses: their components have never been exposed to the elements, and all their cuts are made at the factory where everything is calculated to minimize losses. So right here you are reducing the waste generated by your project. This o...

Concept and design

Efficient home design, or how to design a home to use less energy

...house: We just can’t stress this enough — a smaller house is a more efficient house. A smaller house means less land to excavate, less materials to manufacture and ship, less space to heat, less space to cool, less taxes to pay, less to clean. And they are always cheaper to buy or build. We do not suggest you live in a...

Choosing where to live

Urban living

...house size: Canadians on average have a living space of 700 square feet per person, a number that has quadrupled in a generation. Not long ago houses were half the size, while families were twice the size or more. Bringing down our square footage per person is crucial to sustainable housing. So it’s time to rethink hom...

LEED Homes

LEED Canada shows strong growth during summer of 2015 including first LEED v4 certified project

...House certification Future-proof building techniques to prepare for a changing climate See the best tiny house designs and models here Find more about green home construction and reap the benefits of a free Ecohome Network Membership here.

Exterior cladding

How to install siding

...house, it dries outwards, when we cool a house, it dries inwards (or at least it should - depending if you have a vapor barrier). A well-ventilated air space between sheathing and cladding is an important part of the strategy needed to allow walls to shed moisture in all seasons and conditions. Drainage planes (buildin...