Green Skyline Vancouver- Residential Buildings
The Buildings LEEDing the way
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Light House Sustainable Building Centre
At Light House's Resource Centre located in the
heart of Granville Island you can learn more about green building by
talking with knowledgeable staff, exploring the displays or browsing
the SBC's resource library on sustainable building information,
products and services. You will find books, displays, products, people
and ideas that can help you make your home more manageable – more
sustainable. Whether you are building a new home or a renovating your
basement, there is information tailored to your needs.
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Smallworks
Smallworks Studios and Laneway Housing Inc. is a full service
design/build company specializing in small homes, backyard studios, and
lane-way housing. The three-and-a-half year old company is seeing
growing demand for its small scale structures, which are designed to
mimic the footprint of a standard garage while providing a compact and
efficient space for living and working. Small homes are inherently more
affordable to make, maintain and run sustainably. Some features include
prefabricated wall panels built in their shop to reduce as well as
waste generated, preserves existing neighbourhoods and housing stock,
instead of tearing down existing single family dwellings to make way
for increased density infill housing allows these houses to be retained
while increasing density. They also use sustainable products and buy
local as much as possible.
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Jang Residence
Avid cyclists Stan and Elisabeth Jang wanted to raise their car-free family in an energy efficient home with design features that complemented their sustainable lifestyle. They choose a small lot (3400 sqft) centrally located in Vancouver that allowed most trips to be done by walking or cycling. They requested an abode that complemented the family's passionate belief that the best footprints left on the earth are the smallest. A 1950 sq.ft. heritage-style R-2000 house was built to fit into this established neighbourhood and was designed for a sustainable lifestyle. Their main objective was energy efficiency and sustainability so they chose a geothermal heat pump system, which heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The residence facilitates the use of bicycles and trailers, exterior landscaping not only features native plants that thrive on the west coast, but uses trees, shrubs, perennials and vines that need little supplemental irrigation and resist pests and disease naturally, and benign alternatives in building materials were found to eliminate unhealthy off-gassing.
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Hanvey-Goodland Residence
The Hanvey-Goodland House is a single-detached house that was renovated with consideration for environmental sustainability best practices and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Healthy Housing™ principles. The Hanvey-Goodland House demonstrates “green” building features that can be incorporated into any renovation. Minimizing environmental impacts was a key consideration during the planning and execution of this project. One of its strongest environmental features is the design's efficient use of space, which allows for a smaller structure. This and other design features such as careful construction waste management, high-quality construction methods, and the use of durable materials and fixtures help to keep the project's ecological footprint to a minimum
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