Year: 2022

 

The magazine is published for times a year (Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall) and is distributed to all CHBA members across Canada.

 

The CHBA Membership includes Developers, Renovators, and both Government and Industry Partners.

Each issue features articles and top stories on the latest tools, building materials, and new techniques.  Along with stories that feature inspiration profiles of successful CHBA members, insightful guest columns and interviews from CHBA partners.  The Building Excellence Digital Magazine takes a look at the market forces that impact everyone from the smallest contractor to large scale development companies.

Westeck Windows Mfg, Inc. is a proud Member of the CHBA Fraser Valley, CHBA Central Okanagan, HBA Vancouver – HAVAN and CHBA Vancouver Island.

In the Fall Edition of the Building Excellence Digital Magazine, Westeck Windows has a full page ad, pictured are some of the latest offerings from Westeck such as the

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Home buyers increasingly want to live in an energy-efficient homes, and statistics show that the proportion of them willing to pay extra is rising fast.

In June 2022, NFRC hosted the “Residential Green Building Demand & Certification Trends,” where a panel of speakers shared their results based on surveys.

The event began with the Director of leadership and sustainability for the National Association of Realtors (NAR), sharing figures from the Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends Report survey of realtors: 50 percent reported helping buyers purchase a home with green features, a leap from 36 percent in 2021. Almost two-thirds of the realtors said that energy-efficiency technologies are valuable or somewhat valuable selling points to potential buyers. “This speaks to the growing awareness and understanding of sustainable homes, and there is value from the realtor’s side in being able to highlight and point

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A photographer has created a stunning underwater floral garden photoshoot that was inspired by the hit Netflix television show Bridgerton.

Kimber Greenwood, owner and lead photographer of Water Bear Photographytells MapPixel about the process of bringing this beautiful underwater shoot to life.

Before she started Water Bear Photography, which specializes in underwater portraits, development, boudoir, and maternity photography, Greenwood had been a scuba diver and lifeguard for over 20 years.

“Strangely, the water side came long before the photography side,” says Greenwood, who is based in Gainesville, Florida.

“I fell in love with technical cave diving and freediving, so it was so natural that soon after I got my first camera, I wanted to take it underwater!”

“Water Bear Photography specializes in creating one-of-a-kind shoots for brands, businesses, and individuals who want something creative and that no one else will have.”

For this underwater shoot, Greenwood found inspiration

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Some of the necessary steps in completing a WiFi community survey utilizing knowledgeable survey software is to ensure that you’ve gotten a correctly calibrated the floor plans used to conduct the survey. Without this step, your survey may be inaccurate or, at worst, worthless. In this article we take a look at why that is vital, together with the correct (and unsuitable) option to do it.

Whats up Karen and thanks for the query. Since there are so many supplies used in the construction of partitions in at this time’s RV’s, I can’t provide you with a definite answer. If you can’t use an ordinary stud finder to find any studs within the wall then you must use some kind of anchor to mount the shelves. I’d watch out to not overload the shelves with books or different heavy objects just to be on the safe facet though.

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Every part of a Net Zero Home works together in harmony to create the ultimate energy efficient living space. Every aspect of the home, including the building envelope, mechanical systems, and renewable energy systems, works together as a system to ensure peak performance. Through advanced “building science” techniques, technologies, and products, builders can significantly reduce a home’s energy consumption.

Most Canadian homes use roughly half of their energy consumption on space heating. Net Zero Homes, on the other hand, use only about a quarter of the energy of conventional homes on space heating. Net Zero Homes have a superior building envelope. The building envelope is considered the “shell” of the home because it separates the indoor environment from the outdoor environment. It includes the home’s overall air-tightness, the insulation of the exterior walls, floors, ceilings, and foundation, as well as high-performance windows and doors.

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