In conjunction with National Environment Week, Built Green Canada encourages municipalities to recognize the first Wednesday of June Green Building Day. The intention is to raise awareness and support for sustainable building...
Built Green Canada Q1 Newsletter 2023 - find key Q1 updates from our organization and our Built Green community. Key updates from our first quarter, including: Project Certifications, A Spotlight on Greenhouse Gases, Program Updates, Jayman BUILT...
Sterling Homes Edmonton has been providing single family homes to Edmonton and area for 70 years and is one of the city's best-selling builders; they were confident their houses were well-built. But after reviewing those blower door test results...
Jayman BUILT is a builder continually pushing innovation---they have rolled out an impressive new standard across all their homes, which they call Core Performance. This new specification (spec) includes 10 solar panels---saving up to 50 per cent on...
Mid-September 2022, post-tropical storm Fiona hit Canada's East coast bringing strong winds and flooding, destroying homes and leaving thousands of people without power across the Maritimes. Built Green Canada is working to support...
Built Green Canada Q4 Newsletter 2022 - find key Q4 updates from our organization and our Built Green community. Key updates from our fourth quarter, including: a year in review, level five leader behind verity's success, project certifications...
Chad Bryden's been building homes on Vancouver Island since 2004, and certifying them BUILT GREEN® since 2006. That makes him one of the longest supporters of these third-party certification programs...
Built Green Canada 2022 Year in Review Newsletter. Please find key updates, including...
Homeowners with property disaster damage may now choose certified, sustainable restorations.
This year, our checklist updates are a result of input received from industry, code changes, new technologies, alongside our Technical Standards Committee and the Board of Directors.
Built Green Canada Q3 Newsletter 2022 - find key Q3 updates from our organization and our Built Green community. Key updates from our third quarter, including: project certifications, incentives & rebates, program updates, online training...
Sep. 28th, we will deliver a free, online workshop, focused on under-utilized technology that makes a difference in the performance of your builds.
Built Green Canada Q2 Newsletter 2022 - find key Q2 updates from our organization and our Built Green community. Key updates from our second quarter, including: Builder Feature-Logel Homes Enrolls 530 Units, Project Certifications, and more...
Logel Homes has recently enrolled 11 projects in our BUILT GREEN® High Density program--accounting for 530 units in Calgary built to be healthier, more sustainable homes: verified through certification.
July 20th, we will deliver a free, online workshop, focused on cost-effective ways to improve the performance of your builds. This is especially timely, considering updates to mortgage rebate programs, which now require higher energy performance.
Built Green Canada Q1 Newsletter 2022 - find key Q1 updates from our organization and our Built Green community.
Cohousing-what is it, and why have we been hearing about it? For residents of the beautiful, coastal community of West Wind Harbour Cohousing in Sooke, it means home...
This year, our checklists have limited updates, mostly clerical and minor verbiage adjustments.
Built Green Canada 2021 Year in Review Newsletter. Please find key updates, including...
Kicking off the new year, Built Green Canada launches its Net Zero Energy+ program for single family new homes, a new level of achievement within the organization's long-held, industry friendly green building program.
Complementing Environment Week, we issue our 7th annual challenge to municipalities, to raise awareness of the importance of sustainable building practices, to challenge municipalities to encourage green building, and to highlight those leading the way.
Strategic Group Projects: First Certified through BUILT GREEN® High Density Reno Pilot
In parallel to Earth Day, Built Green Canada celebrates the first project certification awarded through their BUILT GREEN® Communities Pilot Program---Spring Creek's Phase One of their Spring Creek Mountain Village in Canmore.