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North Vancouver Custom Net Zero Home
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Our featured home is this beautiful Net Zero build by Hasler Homes. This beautiful Upper Lonsdale, North Vancouver custom home is Hasler’s first CHBA Net Zero Certified Project.
This project is also BUILT GREEN CANADA Platinum rated.
This high-performance home will not only produce as much onsite renewable energy as it consumes, it incorporates all the checklist items you’d want in a home; Healthy clean ventilated indoor air quality. Low VOC finishes and built with environmentally friendly products. Super airtight construction, which means very durable and low maintenance. And don’t forget, comfortable to live in, with high performance mechanical systems that have been “right sized” for the home.
Keep in mind, all homes in BC will be built to a Net Zero Ready standard by 2032.
Design features:
- Air tight construction 1.24 ACH @ 50 Pa
- SIGA Majrex air barrier
- Foundation: ICF R-22 foundation walls with 2×4 R-14 Batt service wall
- Walls: 3” Exterior mineral wool insulation + 2×6 R-22 Batt
- Ceilings: Effective R-56 SIP ceilings
- Drain water heat recovery – Eco-Innovation
- Cascadia triple glazed high performance windows
- Mitsubishi air source heat pump
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NZ20- The World’s Largest Net Zero Building Conference & Expo
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The World’s Largest Net Zero Building Conference & Expo is back! This time, presented virtually in your living room!
The world’s largest annual net zero building conference is being presented virtually this year. This conference offers professional virtual networking with industry leaders, 20+ world class education sessions, virtual tours of net zero buildings, 3 keynote speakers, interactive virtual Expo Hall featuring industry-leading companies, and more.
Early bird pricing is available now until July 15th.
For more information regarding the net zero conference and to purchase tickets, click here.
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World’s tallest Passive House green building approved for Vancouver
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Vancouver city council has approved ta 586 ft tall, 60 storey, mixed use residential tower in downtown Vancouver’s West End making it the fourth tallest building in the city, and the tallest Passive House green building in the world.
This building proposed by Henson Developments has 485 homes, including 113 social housing units and 49 market rental units within the lower floors, and 323 market condominium units within the upper floors.
The building is designed by UK-based WKK Architects, who is best known for their work on Dubai’s Burj Al Arab. According to the application, the architects were inspired by the shape of the Stanley Park portion of the downtown peninsula, as well as the inlet and forests of this specific landmass.
For more information on this Passive House green building, click here.
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Webinar – BC Energy Step Code Part 3 Report: Training Webinar for Users
Presenter: Focal Engineering
When: Thursday, July 30th
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm PDT
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What you will learn
This webinar will provide an overview of how to use the new Part 3 Report for BC Energy Step Code projects. More details to come in the near future. For those who will be completing the report, this webinar is for you! If this date doesn’t work for you the same webinar will be provided a second time on a later date.
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Foxridge Homes
New 1772 ft² house
Westbrooke Subdivision Langley
Final : 0.87 ACH
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Pheasant Hill Homes
New 1820 ft² home
Ladysmith
Final: 0.29 ACH
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Hasler Homes
Existing Home 3700 ft² home
North Vancouver
Final: 1.24 ACH
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Homeowner Builder
New 8835 ft² house
Vancouver
Final:1.12 ACH
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ACH @ 50 pa (Air changes per hour at 50 pascals)
The number of times per hour the entire heated volume of air in a house is replaced when the building
envelope is subjected to an interior-exterior pressure differential of 50 pascals (Pa).
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For information on the BC Energy Step Code, EnerGuide ratings, Blower Door Airtightness tests, Thermal Imaging, BuiltGreen, Net Zero Homes contact Vanessa at manager@capitalhomeenergy.com
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