Green Renovation Vancouver
Turn a 50’s Bungalow into an Energy Efficient & Healthy Home

The greenest way to build is to improve the existing building stock, where possible. In this case, we have a 50’s bungalow with basement in the Commercial Drive area of Vancouver with a sound structure to build on. We plan to add a half storey to maximize the allowable living area with the focus on improving the overall energy efficiency, using environmental friendly materials and ensuring a healthy indoor environment for this young family to enjoy. At the same time we will give it a new, modern look.

For us, it is common sense to plan along the Passive Design principles, which essentially means optimizing solar gain, maximizing insulation, installing a high performance heat recovery insulation system and making the house as air right as possible – and also designing “budget sensible” at the same time.

Our team is currently working on the design with construction start anticipated for late spring 2012.

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