Passive House Toronto

I had the pleasure of presenting to the Agency for Co-Operative housing yesterday, Jan 24, 2019.  Its a 1-hr presentation touching on a n...

Passive Buildings Canada has been busy recently and they are teaming with Yestermorrow to offer the following 2 courses.  Very tempting. LT...

I recently had the most pleasurable experience of designing an entire off-grid cottage for some awesome clients, including the architecture,...

My wife was very against central vacuum in the house, and for a long time, we determined not to install a central vacuum system.  (She despi...

These pics have little to do with my article.  Here's our electrical meter arrangement. Some of the welded aluminum ducting we are i...

Well there is a lot of news these days and I am constantly bombarded by articles on solar, on renewable technologies, and the like, but we a...

I was recently involved in two low energy house projects and they were both on rural, undeveloped land.  In these cases, I always ask, is it...

Most residential projects involve little if any contact and exploration with the structural or mechanical designers, despite the fact that ...

3 in 12 roof (14.0deg) 8 in 12 roof (33.7 deg) It snowed two days ago - We got the normal 2" of snow while Buffalo got the 50...

News:  Cree recently announced another breakthrough in LED technology:  a commercially available LED with a new level of efficacy:  200Lm/W ...