Thursday, May 27, 2010

Photos of Building a SuperGreen Home

I've started a photo album to document construction of our sustainable housing project at 38/40 Nijmegan Road in Takhini North. As I described in the previous post, we are hoping to get this building double green certified: SuperGreen and as the Yukon's first LEED certified home.



Although there is lots of "green" in the project design, the project is really designed around truly sustainable housing concepts. That is a project that is not only environmentally sustainable, but also socially and financially sustainable (I wrote about this the Elements of Sustainable Building Design in a previous post). I've illustrated the interrelationship of the various elements of sustainable building as follows:

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