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Modular Straw Bale

Project Started: 2011-08-06
Location: Pickering, On
Size: 2850 sqft
Type:
Residential
Position:
General Contractors

Project Features: • Plastered walls • Goodfellow Engineered maple siding • Stone veneer accents • Pressure treated wrap around deck • Pressure treated rooftop deck

Green Building Features

• R-40 Nudura Icf foundation • Modular Straw walls on north,east and west sides • Passive Solar orientated and built • Pella Energy Star Natural Sun Fiberglass windows • Tempcast masonry woodburning fireplace • American Clay earth plaster • Highly insulated Spray Foam Walltite Eco insulation • EcoBatt R-50 ceiling insulation • TPO roof membrane • 2" concrete slab floor on passive side for thermal heat • Low flow faucets/toilets throughout • Highly efficient LED potlights • 1" rigid insulation on exterior • 2" rigid under basement slab • Non-toxic cabinet finishes • Energy star fixtures throughout • Roof designed for possible green roof integration • Bamboo hardwood flooring • Zero VOC/non formaldehyde/waterbased Paints and laquers used

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Exterior House ready for siding and plaster coat
2: Finished ICF Basement
3: Infill framing around straw walls
4: South wall framed insulated and windows installed
5: Tempcast fireplace being built
6: South Passive Glazing wall
7: North wall modular straw

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Garage & Gazebo

Project Started: 2011-08-03
Location: Elliot Lake, On
Size: 800 sqft
Type:
Residential
Position:
General Contractors

Project Features: • Garage with bunkie above • Hardiplank siding • Pressure treated entry to bunkie

Green Building Features

• Pella windows and doors • FSC pine ceilings and trim • Western red cedar gazebo

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Finished garage with bunkie
2: Framing Garage
3: Finished interior pine accents
4: Cedar rafters
5: Tongue and groove cedar ceiling
6: Cedar deck boards being installed
7: Finished exterior screens

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Brazil Green Building Volunteering

Project Started: 2011-02-17
Location: Itacare, Brazil
Size:
Type:
Residential
Position:
Volunteers

Project Features:

Green Building Features

• New Construction of a Ferrous Metal Cement Rainwater harvesting cistern • New Construction of a Compostable toilet for soil fertilization

Image Descriptions:

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Volunteers and Quilombo Community
2: Building the cement wall/slide for the toilet
3: Building the Cistern cage
4: Starting to cement parge the walls
5: Second coat on cistern complete and tank finished
6: Compostible toilet done ready for a roof
7: Carving names of volunteers in tank with community/volunteers hand prints

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Timber Frame Lake House

Project Started: 2010-12-20
Location: Elliot Lake, On
Size: 1,500 sq ft
Type:
Residential
Position:
Project Managers

Project Features: • Timber Frame Structure • Aluminium Clad Windows • Smooth block chimneys and walls • T&G wood siding • Integral eavestrough • 2 1/2" Rigid insulation on exterior • TJI engineered flooring system • 1 x 6 T&G Wood Decking on ceiling

Green Building Features

• 5 1/2" Soya spray foam insulation • Soprema Prarie Roofing system • Radiant Floor Heating throughout • Recycled Glass Countertops • Iko Enerfoil ridgid exterior insulation

Image Descriptions:

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Lake Side deck and curtain wall
2: Forms poured/trowled
3: Timberframe installed and braced
4: Curtain wall of windows overlooking lake
5: Side angle of fireplace and walls
6: Interior fireplace and curtainwall
7: Lakeview

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