We are proud to announce that Coolearth’s Craig England has just received his Passive House Certification. Congratulations to Craig! We are excited to offer clients the services of a certified Passive House Designer!
To learn more about Passive House, visit a blog we did here, or check out the Passive House website
Coolearth recently had the opportunity to see the guesthouse of our Cherry Valley Rammed Earth project in Prince Edward County independently studied and published in Frontiers in Built Environment (Harvey & Szentesi-Nejur, 2025). Titled “Field-based thermal performance analysis of a cement-stabilized, core-insulated rammed earth house in a cold climate,” the paper by Gabriel Harvey and…
Many of our clients own detached or semi-detached homes in Toronto from around the WW2 era and are looking to either renovate or add an addition. Today we were wondering whether it makes sense for our clients to combine a Renovation and/or Addition with an overall energy efficiency upgrade on their homes through the use…
Construction has begun on the high performance house near Parry Sound that Coolearth designed. The house is a 2200 sqft permanent residence for a couple looking to move to their dream property on a lake near Parry Sound, Ontario. The houses of Frank Lloyd Wright have always thrilled the couple and they have been able…
Ontario’s climate action plan seeks to improve the energy efficiency and performance of buildings in order to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The province has identified that we need to take all buildings to Net-Zero or near Net-Zero Energy Use. This means upgrading the leaky, badly insulated homes which pre-dominate much of Toronto and were built…
Thursday night I attended a presentation of the design for the new home of the U of T Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, designed by Nader Tehrani, principal of the firm NADAAA. The building is an addition to an historic building at one Spadina Circle. It’s in the current style that has sloped floors…
You and a guest are cordially invited to the Opening Reception for Shawn Micallef’s “Toronto System” photo- series as part this years Contact Photography Festival. The opening is May 2nd from 6-9pm and is hosted at Coolearth’s office and storefront gallery at 386 Pacific Avenue, and is a part of the Junction-wide opening for…