Gordon Patrick Newell

May 3, 2021

Video & Playbook: Planning Airtight Buildings

May 2021: Planning Airtight Buildings From ZEBx’s Net-Zero Energy-Ready Playbook Series Why Build Airtight Buildings? Building airtightness reduces energy consumption by minimizing heat loss via air leakage through the building enclosure. For this reason, many North American building codes have […]

April 22, 2021

Video & Playbook: Ventilation Strategies for High-Performance Multi-Unit Residential Buildings

April 2021: Ventilation Strategies for High-Performance Multi-Unit Residential Buildings From ZEBx’s Net-Zero Energy-Ready Playbook Series High-performance multi-unit residential buildings (MURB) are becoming the norm in British Columbia. This shift in the building industry is the result of the increasing energy-related […]

April 20, 2021

We’re Hiring! Communications Coordinator

Apply with Indeed here Communications Coordinator, ZEBx About the Metro Vancouver Zero Emissions Innovation Centre and ZEBx Seeded by a $21.7 million federal endowment, the Metro Vancouver Zero Emission Innovation Centre (ZEIC) is a purpose-built organization with a mandate to […]

April 15, 2021

Annual Survey: Celebrating 3 years of ZEBx with our Community

Complete our survey for a chance to win one of five $100 prepaid VISA cards!Closing Date: Midnight Sunday April 25, 2021 We are extremely proud to be celebrating three years and would like to thank our ZEBx community. Today, we are asking for a few minutes of your […]

March 5, 2021

Feb 2021 Decarb Lunch: Evolving Passive House

Evolving Passive House Past Event: Feb 26 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Overview Evolve will be a six-storey, wood frame building with 110 rental units for UBC faculty and staff in the Wesbrook Place neighbourhood at UBC Vancouver. The […]

February 16, 2021

Case Study: Skeena Residence

When the University of British Columbia decided to add another student residence to their Okanagan campus in 2017, the UBC Board of Governors (with input from UBC Properties Trust) decided to pursue Passive House certification for the project to affirm […]

February 11, 2021

CleanBC NZER Challenge Workshops Series: Lessons from the Leading Edge

CleanBC NZER Workshops Series: Lessons from the Leading Edge Past Event: Feb 11 2021 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am Overview Join ZEBx for our last webinar in the Net-Zero-Energy-Ready (NZER) Challenge Series. We’ll be hearing lessons learned from two winners of […]

February 2, 2021

Case Study: Peatt Commons West

Peatt Commons West is the second phase of a purpose-built rental development by Peatt Commons Inc. in Langford, British Columbia. While its original design targeted some improvement in energy performance, the developer of Peatt Commons West decided to pursue Step 4 of […]