Topic: The Net Zero Energy Life in Canada

Speaker: Sevag Pogharian, SPD

Montreal architect Sevag Pogharian is pushing the borders of net zero buildings by creating the Alstonvale Net Zero House, one of the winning projects in Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s EQuilibrium™ Sustainable Housing Demonstration Initiative. The Alstonvale Home strives to:

- generate all the energy required for the household’s domestic needs;
- generate all the energy required for the household’s local transportation needs;
- integrate homescale agriculture in order to displace the industrial food system and enhance a household’s food energy balance.

Sevag Pogharian is principal and founder of Sevag Pogharian Design (SPD), a Montreal-based architectural and general contracting firm specializing in housing. SPD has evolved, since its inception in 1990, from solely an architectural firm to a design-build firm bridging the domains of architecture and construction with the belief that being a builder makes for a better architect and vice versa.

Thank you to CMHC, the main sponsor for this event. 

Thank you to the City of Vancouver for sponsoring the venue.