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Prefabricated Straw Bale Walls for Canada’s Greenest Home

by Jen Feigin | Jun 11, 2012 | Canada's Greenest Home, Natural building materials and techniques, Straw bale building

This week the Endeavour class spent a day at the facilities of NatureBuilt Wall Systems, where we assisted with the construction of some of the S-SIP walls that will be used in Canada’s Greenest Home. The S-SIPs are largely identical to the load-bearing straw bale...

A Finished Durisol block foundation

by Jen Feigin | Jun 11, 2012 | Canada's Greenest Home, Natural building materials and techniques

The Endeavour class has completed the foundation for Canada’s Greenest Home. The crawlspace foundation is made with Durisol blocks (now called Nexcem). Durisol is an insulated concrete form (ICF) that uses waste wood chips in a cement slurry to form large blocks...

How to Rate Canada’s Greenest Home

by Jen Feigin | Feb 2, 2012 | Canada's Greenest Home

Canada’s Greenest Home Blog #2 One of the key underlying questions about green and sustainable building is: How does one know if a building is really any greener or more sustainable than a typical home? Quite a number of ratings systems have developed over the past...

Canada’s Greenest Home… The Adventure Begins!

by Jen Feigin | Jan 23, 2012 | Canada's Greenest Home

Endeavour is excited to announce the Canada’s Greenest Home project, a residential build in Peterborough, Ontario we will undertake with the students in our five-month, Sustainable New Construction certificate program. We expect the design and building process for...

Learning to Accept “No” for an Answer

by Jen Feigin | Oct 18, 2011 | Thoughts on Building

Human beings are remarkable at figuring things out. Put a problem in front of us – especially one with a solution that will make us wealthier and/or more comfortable – and we’ll come up with all kinds of solutions for that problem. Nothing triggers our collective...

Prefabricated Straw Bale Walls for Canada’s Greenest Home

A Finished Durisol block foundation

How to Rate Canada’s Greenest Home

Canada’s Greenest Home… The Adventure Begins!

Learning to Accept “No” for an Answer

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