June 2024 As the Community Energy Association works with more clients across Canada, we are learning what’s needed in each new context. This is how we develop the right solutions…
CEA’s Annual Report for 2023 was presented to our membership at the June 20, 2024 annual general meeting. Download the PDF: We are proud that this year’s report illustrates record-breaking…
Stattonrock Design+Build’s back-to-basics approach builds net-zero homes without a price premium.
This will be the largest event of its kind in the region, bringing together some of BC’s leading experts on building science, renovation and trades training.
Home builder Bruce Murdoch found opportunity in 2023’s frigid temperatures, by revisiting Cranbrook BC’s first net-zero home to check on its cold-weather performance.
“Basically, we’re trying to make a 100 year old house, a passive house,” says David Claus, whose Prince George home retrofit is expected to exceed the requirements of a brand-new Step 5 house, dropping energy use by 63%.
Trainer Rob Pope demonstrates air leakage data from a blower door test. CEA helps educate Rossland homeowners and contractors on heat pump fundamentals. In Rossland, BC, homeowners and contractors recently…
On Oct. 14, 2023, homeowners in Greater Victoria and the Kootenays opened their doors to the public. Visitors had the opportunity to get up close with net-zero and other high-performance homes built right in their own communities.
BBQs, Burgers and Building Science, what’s not to like?
They say it can’t be done: an affordable, high-performance home in the unforgiving climate of northern BC. Maybe the naysayers have just been proven wrong by a longtime builder in Quesnel.
