Understanding Green Building Certifications in Practice

Energy-efficient, durable, and climate-responsive buildings are increasingly shaping how we design and evaluate the built environment. Rising energy costs, evolving municipal standards, and growing awareness of operational carbon have shifted high-performance design from a niche specialty toward a broader professional expectation. Several popular certification systems help structure this work. Each has a different emphasis — …

Sammon Passive House Featured in Canadian Architect

The Sammon Passive House deep energy EnerPHit renovation was featured yesterday on Canadian Architect. The article highlights the strategies we used to achieve Passive House certification, as well as makes the case for why deep energy retrofits can play such an important part in helping Toronto achieve it’s climate change and Net Zero Existing Buildings …

Sammon House receives Passive House EnerPHit Classic Certification!

We are very happy to announce that the Sammon Passive House, the progress of which we have been documenting on this blog (here and here) has just received Passive House EnerPHit Classic Certifications. As far as we know, this is the first home in Toronto to receive EnerPHit Passive House Institute certification. Congrats to the …

Sammon Passive House: Shaping up

Home Energy Retrofit in Ontario using Passive House Design Principles We are excited to share some in-progress construction photos of the Sammon Passive House. Starting with a fairly typical detached-home in Toronto, the team created substantial increase in energy efficiency, airtightness, and occupant comfort. The Sammon Passive House is an example of how Passive House …

Coolearths’ Sammon Passive House Tour: Passive House Canada Conference 2019

We are excited to be working with Passive House Canada to offer a tour of the Sammon Passive House while it is under construction as part of the second annual Passive House Canada Conference which will be taking place at University of Toronto (Scarborough campus) October 17-18, 2019. The Sammon Passive house will be one of the …