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Window Thermal Performance: Comparing High Performance Wood-Aluminum windows with Fibgrelass windows
This blog post grew from a discussion we were having in the office a few weeks ago about the size of the frames in wood-aluminum "passive house" windows compared to fibreglass windows. Based on our analysis the smaller frames of the fibreglass windows when compared to the thick frames of the wood-aluminum windows allow for additional wall insulation which improves the effective performance of the window beyond the stated R-value.
Read moreThe Junction’s 4th Annual Window Wonderland
Coolearth Architecture is excited to host another mural for this year's Window Wonderland in the Junction celebration in our window-gallery at 386 Pacific Avenue.
Read moreConiston Non-Profit Seniors – Opening the Elmwood
Coolearth was excited last Friday to be celebrating the opening of the Coniston Non-Profit Seniors Housing “Elmwood” building with the board, local politicians and stakeholders! The Grand Opening of the 55-unit high performance seniors housing project was on Friday September 29th, 2023. The Sudbury Times quotes local MP Marc Serre who attended the Coniston Elmwood […]
Read moreSammon Passive House Featured in Canadian Architect
The Sammon Passive House deep energy EnerPHit renovation was featured yesterday on Canadian Architect. The article highlights the strategies we used to achieve Passive House certification, as well as makes the case for why deep energy retrofits can play such an important part in helping Toronto achieve it’s climate change and Net Zero Existing Buildings […]
Read moreThe Junction’s 3rd Annual Window Wonderland
Coolearth Architecture is excited to host a mural for this year’s Window Wonderland in the Junction celebration in our window-gallery at 386 Pacific Avenue. The mural is still in progress, but we will share photos and a link in this blog post when it is completed. The artists we are hosting are Stephanie Avery and […]
Read moreSammon House receives Passive House EnerPHit Classic Certification!
We are very happy to announce that the Sammon Passive House, the progress of which we have been documenting on this blog (here and here) has just received Passive House EnerPHit Classic Certifications. As far as we know, this is the first home in Toronto to receive EnerPHit Passive House Institute certification. Congrats to the […]
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