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Happy Friday and welcome to our October newsletter!
Up first, we celebrate the LEED Gold certification of one of our projects!
Next, we release the Design for Disassembly for Residential Construction Report.
Then, Christina presents at the Burnaby Board of Trade 'Green Talks 2021'.
Later, Joanne presents in the Pinchin 'Sustainability In Our Built Environments' webinar.
Lastly, we look ahead to Zero Waste Construction Certification!
Light House Spotlight
LEED Homes Gold Certification

Light House is proud to announce that our Basalt project at 35th Ave. and Cambie St. is officially LEED Homes Gold certified! We extend congratulations to the amazing team and look forward to more LEED projects like this one.

See more of the project here.
Basalt at 5030 Cambie Street
Image source: Basalt Living Vancouver
Design for Disassembly for Residential Construction Report

We are excited to announce the release of the Design for Disassembly for Residential Construction Report!

Created with the support of BC Housing, this report investigates Design for Disassembly (DfD) and the importance of integrating it into building design.
Read the full report here.

Additionally, Light House's Brenda Martens spoke with Vienna House about the future of building waste and DfD, and the conversation is posted to their blog.
Burnaby Board of Trade 'Green Talks 2021'

Light House's Christina Radvak recently presented at the Burnaby Board of Trade 'Green Talks 2021'. This annual environmental event brings together individuals from all walks of life to hear about, discuss, and engage on the topic of embedding and enhancing sustainability throughout our community.

Green Talks 2021 featured its annual fast-paced sustainability session with six rapid-fire presentation segments where speakers presented interesting and engaging 5-minute talks on all things sustainability. Christina joined fellow presenters: Emily Dodge, Traction on Demand; Allen Langdon, Return-It; Graeme Huguet, My House Design/Build/Team; Robert Esterer, Cellcentric Canada; and Christian Reich, IKEA Canada.

Watch it here or below.
Pinchin 'Sustainability In Our Built Environments'

The recent Pinchin presentation 'Sustainability In Our Built Environments', featuring our Managing Director Joanne Sawatzky, is available for viewing anytime at: Sustainability in our Built Environments Webinar. Joanne presented alongside Pinchin's Valerie Johnston and Andrew Byrnes.

This 1-hr webinar hosted by John Holland outlines emerging aspects of sustainability in our built environments and how we can take positive climate action. It focuses on building certification standards, energy conservation, and alternative energy sources as processes to mitigate the Greenhouse Gas impacts of our buildings.  
Coming soon...

Zero Waste Construction Certification

Light House, Zero Waste Canada, and HSR Zero Waste are working together with Ledcor Construction to develop a Zero Waste Certification for Construction, the first of its kind in Canada.

The goal of this project is to create a Zero Waste certification program tailored to construction projects that provides accountability and recognition, and will reduce waste across the industry. Once the certification program is created, an accompanying education curriculum will be developed and hosted by Zero Waste Canada.
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