Building community shares ideas on efficiency
Clearview Sustainability Network has partnered with Passive Buildings Canada and Evolve Builders Group to host a high-performance design event in Creemore.
The May 12 event brings together leaders from design and construction fields to share ideas, network and learn about products and techniques for high performance buildings.
High-performance buildings optimize energy efficiency, durability, and comfort, exceeding conventional building codes, and reducing building energy consumption, and carbon emissions.
Passive Buildings Canada was Canada’s first national non-profit organization supporting the passive house community to build a more sustainable Canada and planet.
Passive houses are airtight and have high-efficiency windows and can reduce energy usage by 90 per cent.
Jim Campbell, a member of the Clearview Sustainability Network’s building and development committee and founder of Rockside Campbell Design, has been honing his passive house design skills over the last decade. As a member of Passive Buildings Canada he has been attending their “boots on the ground” events and was eager to host one in Clearview Township.
He said the event is geared toward those in the building industry it may be of interest to the general public.
He said the goal is to share resources and ideas about how to build better in the face of a changing climate and to encourage curiosity about sustainable building practices.
Soaring heat, high energy costs, noise, smoky air from wildfires are factors that could prompt home owners to go looking for a passive home, prompting them to seek out builders who can deliver.
Campbell describes Passive Buildings Canada as a community of people who can share resources, information and experiences in support of high performance building.
Boots on the Ground events include snacks and drinks, three 20-minute talks by speakers from the region, and a mini-trade show with passive house products.
The event is at Creemore Station On The Green and will feature three presenters: Angus Doughty and Bruce Green will share their experience of renovating a Collingwood home to be carbon
neutral; architect David McAuley will talk about the construction of his low-carbon, low-tech healthy home between Creemore and Mansfield; and Ed Leimgardt Contracting project manager Ashley Leimgardt and Rockside Campbell Design design associate Andrew Winters will discuss the critical role of communication and teamwork between design and construction teams in delivering successful high- performance buildings.
The presentations are from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. with networking from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tickets cost $25. Admission to all Boots on the Ground events is included with a Passive Buildings Canada membership, which is also $25. For tickets, visit www.passivebuildings. ca/events.
