Through our Maverick Awards, we profile specific projects and companies / individuals doing innovative and transformative work in sustainable building, as well as sustainability ambassadors!
The impressive Spring Creek community in Canmore, Alberta continues to expand, recently earning its Phase 2 BUILT GREEN® Community certification at Platinum level. This is building upon its 2022 Phase 1 certification, also at Platinum.
Built Green Canada's 2024 Year in Review Newsletter. Please find key updates, including the impact of past and ongoing global events, industry developments, an overview of our activities, and notable success indicators.
Entries for our second annual Maverick Awards are open! There are all kinds of ways to be a Maverick. We profile outstanding projects and companies and individuals in sustainable building. Submit for your chance to be profiled as a Maverick!
For our upcoming annual checklist updates, this year we have reworked our release schedule to fall in an effort to better complement our builders' business cycles. We're releasing our High Density and remaining checklists now.
Find key updates from our Q3, including offering a means to build back better with support options for builders & municipalities, Westhills Land Corp's 1,000th BUILT GREEN® Home, our 2024 Maverick winners videos, project certifications, and more!
For our upcoming annual checklist updates, this year we have reworked our release schedule to fall in an effort to better complement our builders' business cycles. We're releasing our Single Family and MURB Checklists now.
Longtime BUILT GREEN® member-developer, Westhills Land Corp, has reached a milestone with their Westhills' development in Langford, reaching their 1,000th home: each BUILT GREEN® certified.
Loving our inaugural Mavericks! We're happy to share their videos with you, below. Over the next several weeks, watch our socials and online paid advertising for more versions!
With rebuilding already in progress, we're offering support to builders who are part of these efforts and want to build back better. This requires the incorporation of climate-resilient strategies...
Find key updates from our Q2, including shining a light on communities impacted by natural disasters, celebrating Green Building Day, project certifications, meet our 2024 Board of Directors, find online training opportunities & more!
Late in June, a wildfire in Labrador forced evacuations in Churchill Falls, while weeks earlier, wildfires across Western Canada caused alerts and evacuation orders.
In conjunction with National Environment Week, Built Green Canada encourages the building sector and municipalities to recognize the first Wednesday of June...
On June 18 we will be hosting our first BUILT GREEN® Product Catalogue Talks modelled after the TED format. Delivered via webinar, this will include a series of short talks on building materials that contribute to your sustainable building efforts.
We're proud to profile leadership in sustainable building---honouring our past and present Mavericks. With three award categories---Ambassadorship, Innovation, and Transformational---our Maverick Award winners and finalists were chosen out of entries...
Kelly Williams at Sterling Homes Edmonton, took home this year's most popular category award, for Ambassadorship, the purpose of which is to recognize those on the ground, promoting and encouraging sustainable building...
Lumino Park is a residential development comprised of three high-rise apartment buildings: each BUILT GREEN® certified and offering below-market units in collaboration with government. This high-density living helps curb the affordable...
For the Transformational Award, the purpose is to recognize the impact sustainability practices can have in driving real change: enabling fundamental progress, whether that be a company refocus or is project specific.
Joe has long been a force in working to advance sustainable building practices: both within his own company and through industry and government initiatives. His dedication to promoting sustainability is driven by his deep-rooted connection to the land...
Fitting, that in the Maverick's inaugural year, its founding member, Jayman BUILT, was a finalist for not one, but two of the three offered awards: Ambassador and Innovation. For the Ambassador Award, rewarding sustainability stewardship...
Ellenwood strives to keep operational carbon emissions as low as possible, preferably close to zero. They don't usually install any gas-fired mechanical equipment or appliances. Working with experts to model their homes, they do embodied carbon...
Jayman BUILT is recognized for taking yet another step forward, introducing an impressive new standard across their builds, alongside optional packages that go up to net zero---which they refer to as their four-step solution: their Path to Net Zero.
When the time came for their new office building, Città decided to design and build it themselves. This was the beginning of the transformation of not only this build site, but their wider commercial build processes, inspired by partnering...
One of the Transformational Award finalists is Canmore's Spring Creek Mountain Village. Originally a dairy farm in the 1920s and then a mobile home park in the mid- and late-1900s, this 28-hectare redevelopment has seen a massive transformation into...