Guiding Cold Climate Housing Solutions for Over 40 Years
Buildings are responsible for at least 39% of global emissions. When embodied carbon is included, residential homes in Canada emit more greenhouse gases than all forms of transportation combined. We need to take urgent climate action to ensure a livable future for our grandchildren. Buildings are what we call “the low hanging fruit”.
Meanwhile, many low income people live in uncomfortable, overcrowded homes in need of major repairs, with high energy bills and unhealthy air quality. Energy poverty is relentless and ever-increasing. Retrofits and new construction are slow in coming, and often habitually repeat the same old mistakes in the name of affordability.
How are these two problems related? Healthy, comfortable, sustainable (net-zero energy, carbon-sequestering) and affordable homes are an ideal solution to both of these problems, and the good news is we already know how to build right.
“The future has arrived, it’s just unevenly distributed”.
Green building science is all about understanding the heat, air and moisture flows in our buildings, and then integrating that into comfortable, durable, healthy, affordable, “house as a system” construction and retrofit solutions that have a minimal carbon footprint and environmental impact.
4Syte Green Building Science’s mission is to:
“Accelerate the transition to appropriate cold-climate housing in rural, remote and Indigenous communities in Canada through community engagement, consultation, and implementation of building science-based upgrades”
4Syte Green Building Science provides:
- Trades, Housing and Energy Technician Training
- Residential Energy Modeling
- Site Testing & Inspections (Registered Energy Advisor, Certified Passive House Consultant, LEED-AP BD&C, RASDT)
All work to be contracted via CLEAResult Canada.
981 11th Concession Dalhousie
McDonalds Corners, ON K0G 1M0
613-278-0467
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