Category: Green Building LEED News
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Why Green Building Contractors Need Specialized Insurance Coverage
Why Green Building Contractors Need Specialized Insurance Coverage Green building has moved well past the niche stage in Canada. Project teams are working with unfamiliar structural materials, tighter energy performance specs and complex supply chains …
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Living Large: A Legacy of Broken Systems
Americans won’t embrace smaller homes until they trust society again. America builds big houses. We’ve heard many reasons why: Consumers want it all. Builders make better margins. It’s a cultural expectation. But what if the deeper reason for…
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Improving Summer Comfort in an Older Home
Improving Summer Comfort in an Older Home In this weekly Q&A column, retired builder/building inspector Cam Allen answers readers’ home renovation questions. Have a question? Enter it in the form below. The recent Canada-wide heat wave expose…
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Google Wants to Sell Homes, HERS for Manufactured Homes, and the Home Battery Boom
This Week’s Sustainable Building News covers major policy decisions, smarter manufactured homes, changing buyer expectations, and why energy performance is becoming impossible to ignore. The fate of one of America’s biggest housing refo…
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Why Commercial Flat Roofing Systems Play a Bigger Role in Sustainable Building Than Most Property Owners Realize
Why Commercial Flat Roofing Systems Play a Bigger Role in Sustainable Building Than Most Property Owners Realize Most building owners think about the roof twice: when it is being installed, and when something goes wrong. Between those two moments, a [&…