BlueGreen Consulting Group Inc.

mike anderson

Passive House E-Design

Mike Anderson has helped create some of the most high-performance buildings in Atlantic Canada. Since graduating with a Masters in Architecture in 2012, Mike has designed, built or consulted on many Passive House projects, at scales ranging from small cabins to large apartment buildings. Drawing from his backgrounds in physics, construction and architecture, he brings a dedication to making environmentally responsible and beautiful spaces accessible to people who aren’t necessarily millionaires.

sylvia cook

Aerecura

Sylvia Cook BSc, MSc, BEd., for many years a secondary school Science teacher, lived in a small Ontario town overtaken by stick-frame suburban sprawl. For her this phenomenon epitomized the inefficiency of climate injustice, an issue she sees as the most pressing of our time. She had long enjoyed researching building alternatives, and when she came upon rammed earth, she realized it met all of the criteria she had come to associate with sustainability. Rammed earth is a most efficient use of energy and resources and healthy on so many levels for people and the planet. Her belief in ?thinking globally and acting locally? in improving the built environment has led Sylvia into launching a second career establishing *Aerecura Rammed Earth Builders*, a company that creates beautiful, comfortable, affordable, healthy, environmentally sustainable, rammed earth buildings.

ross elliott

Homesol Building Solutions, Inc

After two decades building and renovating super-energy-efficient, earth-friendly homes, including some of Canada’s first R-2000 houses, Ross founded Homesol Building Solutions in 1999 to deliver energy design and green building consulting services. His addiction to low-energy construction can be traced back to Shelter Institute and Cornerstones in Maine, where he was licensed as an Energy Auditor in 1983. Ross is a Certified Passive House Consultant (Germany & US), LEED-AP (Building Design & Construction), Licensed Carpenter, PHIUS+ Rater, PHIUS Certified Builder and a Certified Energy Advisor for ENERGY STAR and R-2000. His qualifications include Air Systems and Radiant Hydronic Design Technician, and an Ontario BCIN Designer designation. Ross is a founding member of Passive Buildings Canada and CRESNET, and a director of the Ontario Natural Building Coalition. He was the recipient of EnerQuality Evaluator of the Year in 2007 and 2011, and the Hall of Fame award in 2014 for making a lasting impact on energy efficiency and green building. He lives in a low-carbon owner-built LEED Gold / R-2000 home with a strawbale studio and a soap-bubble insulated organic greenhouse, in the heart of a maple sugarbush near McDonalds Corners, Ontario.

steven gray

Greening Homes Ltd

Steven P.Eng., CPHC, LEED AP Initially trained as a structural engineer, Steven went on to earn a masters degree in building science and is a Certified Passive House Consultant. He has a passion for building and constructs energy-efficient projects with Greening Homes in the Toronto area. Steven has presented as a guest lecturer in upper-year and post-graduate building science courses at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University.

joe lstiburek

Building Science Corporation

Joseph Lstiburek, B.A.Sc., M.Eng., Ph.D., P.Eng., is a principal of Building Science Corporation and an ASHRAE Fellow. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Building Science at the University of Toronto. He is a building scientist who investigates building failures.

Dr. Lstiburek received an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto, a masters degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto and a doctorate in Building Science Engineering from the University of Toronto. He has been a licensed Professional Engineer since 1982.

When he is not in buildings he drinks red French wine and drives fast German sports cars – but never at the same time.

stephen magneron

Homesol Building Solutions

Stephen is a Certified Passive House Consultant, PHIUS Certified Builder and Certified Energy Advisor / Green rater for ENERGY STAR, R-2000 and LEED for Homes. He has been working as an Advanced Housing Specialist for Homesol Building Solutions since 2010, collaborating with builders, designers and homeowners to create more energy efficient, sustainable, and affordable human shelter. A valedictorian graduate of Algonquin College’s Construction Carpentry – Advanced Housing program, with hands-on construction experience with an award-winning green renovator, Stephen is proficient with PHPP, WUFI and THERM. He is evolving next-generation Zero Energy+ homes, and was the lead researcher comparing Passive House with EQuilibrium Net-Zero Energy and SuperEE homes for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC). He’s a permaculturalist, fire-spinner, father of two girls, expat Australian and lives east of Ottawa, Ontario.

matthew tokarik

Ryerson University, EIT, MASc, CPHC

Matthew is a building energy consultant specializing in the creation and calibration of whole building energy models. He has been a PHIUS Certified Passive House Consultant since 2013, and his professional experience involves residential mechanical design, and commercial energy modeling. Earlier this year, Matthew received a Master’s degree in Building Science from Ryerson University, where his research focused on life cycle cost assessment of passive energy conservation measures. While at Ryerson, he led the performance optimization and mechanical design efforts for Team Urban Harvest in the 2014 US DOE Race to Zero competition, where the team won awards for Grand Winner, Best Design Solution Integration, Best Technical Integration, and Best Presentation.

terell wong

Stones Throw Design

Terrell Wong is an architect with over 25 years experience. Her passion for the environment and design has greatly influenced her career. In 2006, Terrell lead the winning team to the National Archetype Sustainable House Award. Their “Building Blocks” modular home concept was constructed at the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority’s Kortright Centre as a showcase for sustainable design.

In 2009, Terrell was a founding member and President of Passive Buildings Canada, a national membership-based, non-profit organization that promotes the Passive House concept.

Terrell’s firm, Stone’s Throw Design Inc., specializes in low energy residential design. With its focus on building science, the firm creates designs utilizing cutting edge materials and techniques. In 2011, they completed the first insulated rammed earth house in Ontario. This 350m2 building has a total heating load of 25kWh/m2 and total primary energy use of 100kWh/m2 based on the Passive House criteria. This constitutes 1/10th of the energy usage of a comparably sized home. In 2014 the firm fought for the right to build a two storey strawbale addition in the Beaches area of Toronto. The project was completed in the Fall. Stones Throw Design Inc. is a full service firm that partners with its clients to provide cost effective design and energy solutions.

In 2014, Terrell published Passive Buildings in Canada. This book is a snapshot in time of these buildings in Canada. The goal is to present these excellent designs in an easily comprehensible way to architect, engineer, builder and future home owners alike. This book encompasses buildings from British Columbia to Nova Scotia and building types as diverse as single family dwellings to high rises.

hayes zirnheld

Rocky Mountain Institute

Hayes is a Senior Associate in RMI’s Building Practice, focusing on getting to deeper savings through energy modeling, designing and evaluating strategies to achieve deep savings in new and existing buildings individually and across portfolios. Hayes studied Integrated Engineering at the University of British Columbia where he focused on energy and environmental engineering. Following this he completed his Masters degree at Ryerson University in Building Science, with a focus on calibrated whole building energy simulation and passive solar housing. Hayes then started his own building energy analysis practice and worked on several super efficient building projects as well as taught an advanced building energy simulation workshop at Ryerson University. He also has experience working for the Pembina Institute – a non-profit energy policy think tank located in Canada, where he developed a building stock model to assess the impact of cutting edge green building policies. Hayes also has construction experience, and has built his own passive solar, off-grid home. Some of Hayes’s recent projects at RMI include, leading RMI’s energy modeling work for a net zero energy feasibility study for McDonald’s; creating a portfolio wide building retrofit strategy for the Army and Airforce Exchange Service; and creating a methodology for incorporating uncertainty analysis into energy modeling.