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PETER GILGAN to Kick Off the EQ Housing Innovation Forum
Peter Gilgan is one of Canada's leading entrepreneurs and philanthropists. As the Founder and CEO of Mattamy Homes, North America's largest privately owned new home builder, Mr. Gilgan has built more than 65,000 homes in hundreds of communities across North America. Mr. Gilgan is also a highly decorated recipient of numerous prestigious business and philanthropic awards including the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal, a Companion in the Canadian Business Hall of Fame and
Ernst & Young's Ontario
Entrepreneur of the Year.
Read More On Peter Gilgan Here
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Conference Program and Speakers Announced!
It gives us great pleasure to announce EQ's 2016 Housing Innovation Forum conference program. It has been truly exciting to plan this year's Housing Innovation Forum, taking place on February 25th at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel & Suites. We've collaborated with key green home builders, building scientists, industry consultants, renovators, and agency partners across Canada. The result is an exciting and educational roster of panelists and subjects that will inform and inspire you to adjust to changing business realities, and to create value for your business.
Responding to calls for renewed emphasis on climate change mitigation, our green home builders are demonstrating leadership and commitment to a more sustainable and energy efficient houses that home buyers can count on and expect. NEXT GEN/NEXT 10 - the conference theme - previews the next generation of Canada's most popular third party certification programs while looking ahead at innovation in green housing market unfolding over the next decade. 2017 marks a major change in the new Ontario Building Code coinciding with major updates also taking place with the ENERGY STAR for New Homes, EnerGuide Rating System voluntary building standards. These are systems our country's highest performance builders use to guide their businesses. Read more about the conference program on our blog.
View Conference Program Now!
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Frank Ferragine to Host EQ Awards
Frank Ferragine AKA "Frankie Flowers" is arguably Canada's most popular and trusted gardening authority and morning weatherman on City's morning show
Breakfast Television
in Toronto. He is known for a combination of practical advice with the spice of humour and a huge injection of passion for plants and everything gardening. Frankie's advice has twice earned him Landscape Ontario's Garden Communicator of the Year, he has been named Toronto's Favourite Weather Personality 8 years running (Toronto Sun Readers Award) and in 2010 his Disney inspired Tinker Bell Garden won 3 awards including public choice and best overall garden.
Frankie is a three-time best selling author, consultant, garden writer, social media strategist, and philanthropist. Frankie believes that life should be fun and lives everyday by the mantra "work hard, play harder".
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Get Your Groove On At The EQ Awards Gala!
Mix and mingle to the music of the unforgettable Sarah Davidson-Gurney and later, Brent Miller and his outstanding live band. His love of music and performing has led him to a life of amazing events alongside his gorgeous and talented wife Sarah. Together they play with some of Toronto's most incredible musicians, providing duos, trios, quartets and full bands for some of Toronto's most incredible occasions. Leading the way on piano and vocals, he can take almost any request!
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Reserve Your Ticket Or Table Today!
Early Bird Pricing Ends On January 20th
Make sure to capitalize on our
Early Bird pricing before it ends on January 20th. This is a Forum and awards you will not want to miss! Make sure to be in attendance to learn about what's ahead in residential home construction as we drive towards higher standards! Following the day's conference join us for the EQ Awards Gala for an amazing evening of inspiration, connection and entertainment as we recognize contributions to the building industry with our industry's leaders, innovators and influences.
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Last Call: Innovation Gauntlet Applications Close January 20th!
If your company has an innovative product they would like to showcase in a 'Dragon's Den' style pitch, this is for you! This year is set to be very competitive making the winner of the
Most Innovative Product Advancing Building Performance Award that much more special. This award is voted on by the audience, so make sure you're there!
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Last Chance: EQ Awards Close January 20th!
With the EQ Awards drawing closer, so is the awards nomination deadline of
January 20, 2016. Make sure you don't miss out on a chance to win one of EnerQuality's coveted awards!
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ENERQUALITY TEAM
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Corey McBurney
President
Rose Benedetto
Managing Director
Kirk Johnson
Program Director
Sarah Margolius
Director of Development
Bari Rapp
Program Coordinator
Kismet Goodbaum
Development Specialist (Interim)
Kain Allicock
Marketing Coordinator
Christephanie Uy
Program Coordinator
Katie Bayley
Program Manager
The ENERGY STAR® mark is administered and promoted in Canada by Natural Resources Canada. Used with permission. R-2000 and EnerGuide are official marks of Natural Resources Canada. Used with permission.
EnerQuality's mission is to accelerate housing innovation to improve building performance. Our mandate is to support home builders to deliver a better product in order to satisfy consumer expectations and meet regulatory requirements, in line with emerging market trends such as energy efficiency, intensification and other building code requirements.
Our programs are voluntary and market-based, designed to support builders and renovators with education and tools to achieve high performance building standards. Notable programs include ENERGY STAR® for New Homes, GreenHouse Certified Construction
™,
The Green Renovator Project
™
and LEVEL
™
. EnerQuality was founded in 1998 as a partnership between the Ontario Home Builders' Association and the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance.
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