The Green Dream Home (the CHBA/TRU Training House) marks the 17th year of a unique partnership. The builder-developer is a consortium of the Canadian Home Builders Association Central Interior (CHBA CI) and students from a wide variety of Thompson Rivers University (TRU) programs. This TRU and CHBA CI project addresses the need for training a new generation of highly skilled home building professionals. For the 13th consecutive year of partnership this group plans to sell the house to the YMCA/YWCA for use as their annual Dream Home lottery fundraiser.
For the past 3 years, the training houses have met the highest Built Green™ BC standards. The project has raised the bar this year by building this home as an EQuilibrium™ and NetZero home.
This year, the Green Dream Home is part of the EQuilibrium™ Sustainable Housing Demonstration Initiative led by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). EQuilibrium™ strives to balance our housing needs with the needs of our environment by bringing the private and public sectors together with the goal of developing homes and communities that are designed to address occupant heath and comfort, energy efficiency and renewable energy production, resource conservation, reduced environmental impact and affordability.
The "Green Dream Home" is one of fifteen projects across Canada, one of 2 in British Columbia, that have won CMHC's national EQuilibrium™ sustainable housing competitions. All EQuilibrium™ projects will be open to both the general public and professional audience for tours, and then monitored for performance by CMHC for one year, once occupied.
The two storey home with a walk-out basement is located in the Sun Rivers Development on the Tk'emlups Indian Reserve.
EQuilibrium™ housing combines a wide range of technologies, strategies, products, techniques and innovations designed to reduce a home's environmental impact to an absolute minimum. At the same time, EQuilibrium™ housing also features commercially available, on-site renewable energy systems to provide clean energy to help reduce annual consumption, costs, and our carbon footprint. For further technical information on the project please click here.
Daily Update pictures of 1858 Ironwood Terrace
To view the 15 second time lapse update videos of the previous week please click on the links below: FRONT OF BUILDING
REAR OF BUILDING
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