GREENOVATE YOUR HOME EVENT By: greening homes

May 7, 2013
Announcements

Last month, Greening Homes attended the inaugural “Greenovate Your Home” event featuring a panel of expert building professionals from a variety of disciplines. The general discussion topic was renovating “green”, and the panelists touched on a broad range of related topics from environmental conservation to energy efficiency to healthy indoor environmental quality, amongst others. The […]

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RENOMARK APPROVED By: greening homes

May 7, 2013
Announcements

Greening Homes is pleased to announce we are now fully accredited members of BILD and RenoMark! Our RenoMark accreditation lets you know that we meet (and in most cases exceed) industry standards. More importantly for you, it proves we operate in a responsible and trusting manner, work in a safe manner, provide project warranties, and […]

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VISIT US! NATIONAL HOME SHOW By: greening homes

March 15, 2013
Announcements

Starting tomorrow we will be participating in the National Home Show & Canada Blooms, which runs until Sunday, March 24th. This gives you 11 days to come and visit your favourite sustainable renovator! Home shows give you the opportunity to meet great product suppliers, get some ideas for an upcoming renovation or landscaping project, and […]

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1 OF 6 IN ONTARIO By: greening homes

November 29, 2012
Announcements, Resource Efficiency

Connor Malloy, our Operations Manager recently received his LEED® AP Homes accreditation. Connor joins just 5 other professionals in the province with this specialty and brings tons of ideas to the table. In all there are 2,119 LEED® AP”s in Ontario (including our President and one of our Construction Managers) and we hope more professionals […]

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WE SUPPORT PASSIVE BUILDINGS CANADA By: marc maguire

November 16, 2012
Announcements

We strive to better our professional offering everyday, and today we became members of Passive Buildings Canada. Passive what? The term Passive House is reserved for ultra-low-energy homes built to the German Passive House (…or Haus) standard. These homes are super insulated and air sealed, and are designed to work with the orientation and micro-climate […]

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HOT OFF THE PRESS By: greening homes

August 27, 2012
Announcements

We are so excited to show you our new Sustainable Project Management Report (SPMR) that we provide all of our clients at the completion of their project. Each document is custom made and lists all of the project specific elements that make his project more sustainable. Providing this custom document is one way we try […]

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44 Ramps Built with StopGap for Roncesvalles! By: greening homes

July 17, 2012
Announcements, Community

On Saturday and Sunday this weekend, members of our crew (and some of their partners) helped out with a great initiative on Roncesvalles. Coinciding with the Polish Street Festival, we teamed up with a group building ramps for 44 stores along the East side of Roncesvalles from Queen to Dundas W. The organization called Stop […]

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Greening Homes in Haiti By: greening homes

March 7, 2012
Announcements, Community

As part of our mandate to increase awareness of sustainable building practice, Greening Homes supported Shane MacInnes, a Senior Crew member and Red Seal Carpenter, by subsidizing a large portion of his trip costs. We are grateful for Shane’s contribution to this project and are happy to help him share his experience building in Haiti […]

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