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Guido Wimmers - Guest Expert on Passive Design

May 24 2008 - 2:00pm
May 24 2008 - 4:00pm

"Building Better Buildings"

Guido

Guido Wimmers, Dipl.Ing. LEED AP, Equilibrium Consulting Inc.


German Passive House Standard in Canadian Residential Construction Projects

The first residential construction project with the German Passive House Standard will be built in Kelowna BC as part of the Avalon Ecovillage project.

Are there any local Architects who have practical knowledge of the Passivhaus Standard ?


Eco-Sense: Sustainable Building, Systems & Living

Jul 20 2007 - 10:00am
Jul 20 2007 - 12:00pm

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Eco-Sense - Sustainable Building, Systems & Living Tour

Jun 30 2007 - 10:00am
Jun 30 2007 - 12:00pm

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Eco-Sense Tour: The building of a sustainable house

May 18 2007 - 1:00pm
May 18 2007 - 3:00pm

Welcome to the most sustainable building project in Canada, the Eco-Sense home of Ann and Gord Baird. This tour will show the loadbearing cob wood working shop and the house that is in progress. The house is the first of its kind, engineered to be the first code approved high occupancy load bearing cob building in Canada. The tour will be hosted by Angela Evans of Saanich.


Passive Design

DUBAI " O-14, a twenty-two story tall commercial tower perched on a two-story podium, is slated to break ground during the first week of December 2006 in the heart of Business Bay in Dubai. The building, which will contains 300,000 square feet of space, is a collaboration between RUR Architecture of New York and developer Shabah Lutfi. O-14 will be located along the extension of Dubai Creek, occupying a prominent location on the waterfront esplanade.