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PARTNERNEWS 
NEWS
Save The Date! EQ Housing and Innovation Forum and Awards 

2014 EnerQuality Award Recipients

EnerQuality will once again be hosting the EQ Housing and Innovation Forum on February 25, 2016 at the Sheraton Parkway North Toronto Hotel. For those who missed it, the 2015 EQ Forum set the tone for important conversations in the residential construction and green building industry and this year will be no different. More information to come, but in the meantime mark your calendars!

For sponsorship inquiries or additional information please contact Sarah Margolius at


Aaron Short Joins EnerQuality Team 
 

EnerQuality is delighted to announce that Aaron Short has joined the EnerQuality team as Development Specialist. Aaron has background in urban planning, environmental certification, and communications and has a broad-range of experience working on planning and development projects both domestically and abroad.  Prior to working with EnerQuality, Aaron was an urban planning consultant with the Pembina Institute and received CaGBC's Emerging Green Builder Leadership Award in 2012. 

 

For information on training, marketing, events and partnership initiatives please contact Aaron at aaron@enerquality.ca


 


 

EVENTS 
EVENTS

EnerQuality Congratulates BILD GTA and Habitat for Humanity

 

Congratulations to BILD GTA on raising $40,000 with their 6th Annual Race for Humanity! EnerQuality was proud to participate, along with 23 teams of builders, developers, renovators, and service professionals. All proceeds from the race and barbeque go to help Habitat for Humanity build 12 ENERGY STAR qualified homes for low income families in the GTA. A special thanks to the entire team at BILD GTA and Habitat for Humanity for putting on such a fabulous event for such an important cause. Next year, EnerQuality's is taking home the big prize!

 

 

OHBA Conference 2015 - People's Choice Voting Starts August 18  

  


The Ontario Home Builders' Association is hosting its annual conference September 27-29 at the Deerhurst Resort Huntsville. For conference details, registration and people's choice awards be sure to visit the conference website


EnerQuality Sponsors Green Building Festival 2015
  

On October 1st, join hundreds of sustainable building professionals and experienced green building practitioners to hear from international experts on cutting-edge projects and inspiring case studies addressing the theme Building Resilient Communities: Community-scale planning and development for a more resilient urban landscape.

Early bird pricing is currently in effect. Don't miss out REGISTER TODAY!


EnerQuality is a Proud Sponsor of the Waterloo Region Home Builders' Association SAM Awards 

On November 5, Waterloo Region Home Builders' Association will be hosting the 20th annual Sales and Marketing (SAM) Awards honouring outstanding performance and achievement in all areas of new home construction, renovation, marketing, sales and industry related services. 

Category finalists and winners of WRHBA's SAM Awards of Distinction are distinguished as the best in the region and as such, use this tremendous recognition to power marketing initiatives for the entire year. In addition to this, WRHBA provides all winners and finalists province-wide media exposure, reaching over 1.1 million readers. 

For registration and additional information please visit the WRHBA  website.


Outstanding Menkes ENERGY STAR Qualified Community Home Orientation Session
 

Congratulations to Menkes on the opening of The Enclaves of Upper Canada in Georgetown.  Menkes did an amazing job welcoming home buyers to a jam-packed information session, complete with information and giveaways.  The energy efficient features of these ENERGY STAR qualified homes were presented by Clearsphere's John Godden. Union Gas' Mark Beriault spoke about Optimum Home's high performance home building program, which contributed to the design process.
 

BUILDERALERT 
BUILDER ALERT
Give your feedback on whole building airtightness testing


You are invited to participate in a survey about airtightness testing services across Canada. This survey is being conducted by RDH Building Engineering and Building Science Consulting Inc. as part of a larger study reviewing issues related to whole building air leakage testing requirements in the the National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings. The survey takes about 5 minutes and is available at:

Please direct any questions to info@buildingsciencelabs.com
EQTEAM 
ENERQUALITY TEAM 

Corey McBurney

President

Corey@enerquality.ca

 

Rose Benedetto

Managing Director

Rose@enerquality.ca

 

Kirk Johnson

Program Director

kirk@enerquality.ca

 

Sarah Margolius

Director of Development

sarahm@enerquality.ca

 

Bari Rapp

Program Coordinator

Bari@enerquality.ca

 

Aaron Short

Development Specialist 

aaron@enerquality.ca

 

Christephanie Uy

Program Coordinator

christephanie@enerquality.ca 

 

Katie Bayley

Program  Manager

Katie@enerquality.ca 



 

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  designs and delivers green building programs to the residential construction industry. A social enterprise, EnerQuality is working to transform Ontario's housing into the most energy efficient and sustainable in the world. 

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.

 

EnerQuality would like to thank our Partners for their continuing support:


  

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