Guiding Cold Climate Housing Solutions for Over 40 Years
Buildings are responsible for 39% of global emissions. When power generation and embodied carbon are included, residential buildings in Canada emit more greenhouse gas than all forms of transportation combined. We need to take urgent climate action to ensure a livable future for our grandchildren.
Meanwhile, many people live in uncomfortable, overcrowded homes in need of major repairs, with high energy bills and poor air quality. Retrofits and new construction are slow in coming, and often repeat the same old mistakes in the name of affordability.
How are these two problems related? Healthy, energy-efficient, carbon-sequestering housing is the solution, and the transition has already begun. All new construction and major renovations should aim for carbon neutral and net zero energy, today, and the good news is we already know how to do it.
“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 cost-effective, “house as a system” construction and retrofit solutions that also have a minimal carbon footprint.
4Syte Green Building Science services include:
- Energy advisor & trades training
- Energy modelling & carbon accounting
- Sustainable construction & renovation guidance
If you’d like to know more about 4Syte’s solutions for better cold-climate housing in rural, remote, and Indigenous communities, please get in touch with me today and we’ll see how our synergies can align!
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