Prefabricated Straw Bale Walls for Canada’s Greenest Home
This week the Endeavour class spent a day at the facilities of NatureBuilt Wall Systems, where we assisted with the construction of some of the S-SIP walls that will be used in Canada’s Greenest Home. The S-SIPs are largely identical to the load-bearing straw bale...
A Finished Durisol block foundation
The Endeavour class has completed the foundation for Canada’s Greenest Home. The crawlspace foundation is made with Durisol blocks (now called Nexcem). Durisol is an insulated concrete form (ICF) that uses waste wood chips in a cement slurry to form large blocks...
How to Rate Canada’s Greenest Home
Canada’s Greenest Home Blog #2 One of the key underlying questions about green and sustainable building is: How does one know if a building is really any greener or more sustainable than a typical home? Quite a number of ratings systems have developed over the past...Canada’s Greenest Home… The Adventure Begins!
Endeavour is excited to announce the Canada’s Greenest Home project, a residential build in Peterborough, Ontario we will undertake with the students in our five-month, Sustainable New Construction certificate program. We expect the design and building process for...