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Case Studies in Sustainable Design |
Terri
Meyer Boake B.E.S. B.Arch. M.Arch. |
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| Residential Sustainable Building in Canada: |
The majority of the case studies addressed here are early, experimental green building efforts. The "Healthy House" competition and the series of "Green Homes", along with the R-2000 project succeeded in developing a number of prototypical houses, and in the case of the R-2000 project, helped to make housing by and large more energy efficient. The issue of multi-family housing and co-housing is not addressed (yet) on this page. Densification of housing is critically important to reducing urban sprawl and making more effective use of our existing cities and suburbs. The USGBC launched LEED NC for Homes Pilot Project in 2005. More info. This will be important to the development of the LEED rating system as the current NC system is in many cases quite unsuitable to issues that are peculiar to housing. |
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Kitchener Waterloo Green Home: Enermodal Engineering Limited, Kitchener, Ontario |
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CMHC Healthy House: Martin Liefhebber Architect, Toronto, Ontario |
web article 1 web article 2 web article 3 web article 4 Breathe Architects Homepage |
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Grid Tied Solar House, Waterloo, Ontario Arise Technologies, Kitchener, Ontario |
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Kasia Pernicka, Vera Guo, Cindy Tse, Lucie Richards |
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Solar House Project, Halifax, Nova Scotia Dimitri Procos Architect, Halifax, Nova Scotia |
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Victoria Solar House Project Soltek Engineering, British
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Solar House, St. Margaret’s Bay, Nova Scotia Don Roscoe, Nova Scotia |
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Alberta Healthy House, Calgary, Alberta | web article 1 | |
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Danielson Cottage, Smelt Brook, Nova Scotia MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects |
published in 44 to 66: Regional Responses to Sustainable Architecture in Canada |
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Messenger House II, Upper Kingsburg, Nova Scotia MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects |
published in 44 to 66: Regional Responses to Sustainable Architecture in Canada |
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Howard House, West Pennant, Nova Seotia MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects |
published in 44 to 66: Regional Responses to Sustainable Architecture in Canada |
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last updated June 25, 2008