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A PassiveHouse Heating System

by Jen Feigin | Mar 15, 2015 | Construction Blogs, Natural building materials and techniques, Sustainable Building & Design program, Teachers' Union offices

Passive House is a building certification program that focuses on dramatically improving the energy efficiency of new and renovated buildings. Overseen in this country by the Canadian Passive House Institute (CanPHI), the standard originated in Germany in the late...

Net metering PV now functional

by Jen Feigin | Mar 15, 2015 | Construction Blogs, Teachers' Union offices

The use of photovoltaics (PV) to generate electricity has been a common element on most of our projects. PV is affordable, easy to install, nearly maintenance free and very reliable. Once again, a PV array has been a key part of the energy strategy for an Endeavour...

Finishing the straw-cell wall system

by Jen Feigin | Oct 25, 2014 | Construction Blogs, Straw bale building, Teachers' Union offices

Our office building project for the Trillium Lakelands Teachers’ Union features a straw bale wall system that combines conventional wood stud framing with an interior straw bale wall. Recently, we finished the exterior side of this wall system. This involved...

Air tightness details for straw bale walls

by Jen Feigin | Oct 25, 2014 | Construction Blogs, Straw bale building, Teachers' Union offices

Straw bale wall systems have been touted for 20+ years now as a way to achieve higher insulation values with lower environmental impacts. And, having built many straw bale homes and commercial buildings now, we know this is true. However, we have also seen that...

Stop motion straw bale and earth plastering

by Jen Feigin | Oct 5, 2014 | Construction Blogs, Natural plaster, Straw bale building, Teachers' Union offices

Sustainable New Construction 2014 student Ben Bowman set up his camera and took some great sequences of the construction process at our teachers’ union office project. Here are the two sequences of straw bale installation and earthen plastering. In many ways,...

High-straw earthen plaster recipe

by Jen Feigin | Sep 19, 2014 | Construction Blogs, Natural building materials and techniques, Natural plaster, Recipes, Teachers' Union offices

It’s no secret that we love clay plasters at Endeavour, and the best case scenario is being able to use a clay soil right from the building site. It just so happens that we lucked into this for the teachers’ union office project! After digging some test...

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