Jan 12, 2015 | Canada's Greenest Home, Construction Blogs, Sustainable Building Projects
In an Endeavour post about a year ago, I examined the concept of embodied energy in buildings. You can see that post here. To quote the summary of that article: “Choosing high EE materials is willfully neglectful, and in my experience the choice is often due to...
Sep 9, 2014 | Construction Blogs, Straw bale building, Teachers' Union offices
Over 20 years of building with straw bales, I have constantly experimented with new ways to integrate bale walls into buildings that are simple, cost-effective and energy/resource efficient. From load bearing to prefab panels to a variety of framing systems, I thought...
Jun 11, 2014 | Construction Blogs, Sustainable Building & Design program, Teachers' Union offices
Many sustainable building projects are built in places where it is difficult or impossible to access electrical grid power, and this necessitates running a gasoline or diesel powered generator to provide power for tools. Over the course of an entire building project...
