Sustainable Architectural Strategies

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Your Collaborative Building Journey

What Matters to Us

Community Engagement

In essence, Community Engagement focuses on enhancing community involvement for sustainable outcomes, involving various processes, relationships, and discussions, to enable decision-making and implementation. Success hinges on adapting strategies to suit the specific community context.

Universal Design

Universal Design is the design and composition of an environment so that it can be accessed, understood and used to the greatest extent possible by all people regardless of their age, size, ability or disability. An environment (or any building, space, or service in that environment) should be designed to meet the needs of all people who wish to use it. This is not a special requirement, for the benefit of only a minority of the population. It is a fundamental condition of good design.

Circular Construction

Circular Construction is changing the use of something which we no longer need to something new, which we now need. By changing the function of an existing building we are making the most of that which we already have, rather than sending the old stuff to landfill and manufacturing more new stuff.

Durability

The more Durable a building is – the longer it lasts – and the less it negatively affects the environment. The longer it lasts, the more Resilient it is – as it withstands different types of environmental stresses – wind, rain, snow, fire, heat, cold, etc.

Resilience

Sustainable Building Materials

Sustainable Building Materials reduce your carbon footprint – both Upfront (embodied) Carbon and Operational Carbon throughout the life of your building. Upfront Carbon is emitted during the extraction, manufacture, transportation, and installation of a building material.

Passive House Design

Passive House Design is a set of design principles to attain a high level of energy efficiency while also creating very comfortable indoor spaces. These principles can be applied to all buildings, including backyard and single-family homes, multi-unit apartment buildings, community housing, offices, and more.

Passive Sustainable Design

Passive design strategies utilize what nature provides for free to keep buildings comfortable without the need for purchased energy. Passive strategies are integrated strategically into the design of a building to work with natural elements on a building site (including sun and wind patterns) to provide free heating and cooling of spaces through different seasons.

Active Sustainable Design

Active design strategies use purchased energy, including electricity and (unfortunately) natural gas, to keep buildings comfortable. These strategies include mechanical system components such as furnaces, boilers, air-conditioning, heat pumps, radiant heating, heat or energy recovery ventilators, and electric lighting.

In Ontario, with our almost carbon-free hydro grid, it is better to use electricity rather than natural gas. Active strategies also include systems that generate energy such as solar electric and solar thermal panels, and wind turbines.

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Who we are

Careers

Home for your family

Housing for your community

A Place for your organisation

Family

Backyard

Organization

Who we are

Careers

Sustainable Architectural Strategies

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Your Collaborative Building Journey

Discovery

Conceptual Design

Design Development

Technical Design

Construction

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What Matters to Us

Passive Sustainable Design

Active Sustainable Design

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