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September 2024
Waverly Low-Carbon Retrofit – Upgrading and modernizing a residence in the beaches
The team at Coolearth Architecture Inc. in combination with a dedicated and passionate set of clients and builders, had the fortune and pleasure of working to create a beautiful renovation to a newly acquired home, while also performing a substantial deep-energy retrofit as well as switching to all-electric and getting off natural gas.
Read moreA High Performance Wall for the 21st Century: 8″ External Woodfibre insulation with Long-screws
High Performance and Passive house design is based on both rigorous Building Science principles, but also inherited tradition. In this blog post we propose an alterative wall assembly based on first principles: high performance, low-cost, low embodied carbon, durable, efficient use of materials, and flexible.
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