"Laneway Housing"

Bryn Davidson, Lanefab

"Laneway Housing"

Bryn Davidson, Lanefab

The event will introduce a pilot project to create a green laneway house as part of Light House's 2010 Green Building Challenge. Bryn Davidson (the project's designer and partner in the new development company, Lanefab) will present an overview of the pilot project and introduce Lanefab's product line of 5 lane house variations. Light House will be providing project support and consulting services to help the project become a leading demonstration of eco-friendly design and construction for infill dwellings and detached garden suites.

The lane house concepts, which range in size from 500-800 sf and will likely be priced in the $90,000-$140,000 range, will be suitable for a wide range of single family lots both in Vancouver and beyond. The Vancouver pilot, which will be located in the 31st and Fraser area, will be able to start construction after city council adopts the final laneway housing guidelines recommended as part of it's EcoDensity initiative (an event the project partners believe will happen in late July or early August). While waiting for Vancouver to move forward, Lanefab will be building a second pilot project in Squamish that is aiming to be under construction by June.

Bio - Bryn Davidson is a LEED accredited designer and sustainability consultant holding degrees in mechanical engineering (U.C. Berkeley) and architecture (U. British Columbia). He is the co-founder and executive director of the Dynamic Cities Project (DCP, a non-profit organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia) that is working to develop energy transition strategies as a proactive response to peak oil and climate change.  In parallel with his research and outreach work through the DCP, Bryn designs low-energy green homes, and works with planners and real estate developers on projects that aim to have a "net positive" impact on their community's emissions and oil dependence.

The Dynamic Cities Project was founded in 2005 as a non-profit think tank working to integrate the nexus of peak oil and climate change - "the global energy transition" - into the practice of urban and regional planning. Since then, Bryn's presentations and research have received enthusiastic reviews both locally and globally, and several of his presentations have been translated into multiple foreign languages.

Bryn has given numerous presentations on the global energy transition to professional, business and civic groups, and has facilitated community workshops using the DCPs energy transition scenarios.  His current work focuses on using scenario-based planning as a means to help planners and political leaders make more resilient investments in civic infrastructure.

Lanefab Laneway Housing is a full service design/build partnership between Davidson - a LEED accredited designer - and local builder Mat Turner of Renmen Projects (www.renmen.ca).

For more information on the lane house prototypes you can visit www.lanefab.com, or contact Bryn Davidson at: 604.728.0606  bryn@lanefab.com

PLEASE RSVP to info@sustainablebuildingcentre.com.
This is a free event but a donation of $2-$5 is suggested.

LOCATION
Light House: Sustainable Building Centre is located at 1575 Johnston Street, just East of the Public Market in the heart of Granville Island. Our centre is on the second floor and accessible via the glass door and staircase on the Southwest corner of the building. This event is sponsored by Light House Sustainable Building Centre and Cascadia Green Building Council, the local chapter of the CaGBC. Funding comes from Environment Canada and the Real Estate Foundation of BC.

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