Here are the houses we had on the 2009 tour
Riverdale NetZero Energy Home
www.riverdalenetzero.ca
EnerGuide Rating 100.4
This house is one of Canada's first 15 net zero energy homes.
It generates all its own heat and electricity on an annual basis.
It is part of CMHC's world-class
EQuilibrium Sustainable Housing Initiative.
You saw this house under construction last year -- now see it complete.
Last time to see the house before the homeowners move in.
See how to build cost-effective quick-payback ultra-efficient walls and ceilings.
See solar power and solar heating technologies in operation.
See its sustainable materials and finishes and find out how to do it on your house.
Find out about net zero energy design, water efficiency, drain water heat recovery, ventilation with heat recovery.
The house has no natural gas line.
It's electricity bill will be somewhere between $0 and $200 per year.
Talk with the home's design and construction team.
Find out the remarkable things they've learned over the first winter's heating season.
Find out how to radically simplify your home's heating system and its costs.
Talk with sustainable materials specialists from EcoAmmo and
GreenAlberta.
Find out about Edmonton's community-wide greenhouse gas reduction strategy
(CO2RE), and Climate Change Central's
Riverdale Elementary School -- Touch and Learn Eco-Fair
8901-101 Avenue, Edmonton
riverdale.epsb.ca
Site hosts: staff and friends of Riverdale Elementary School
Come join the school's Eco-fair. Bring your kids; have lots of fun.
Come and ride the bicycle generator. Generate the electricity to make your own smoothie.
Touch and feel solar power, solar heating, and solar ovens with the solar demo trailer
from the Solar Energy Society.
Make cookies with the solar ovens.
City of Edmonton Recreation Co-ordinators will run kid's games.
See and learn about rain barrels so you can become more "water secure".
Come and learn how to plant native plants. Buy native plants for your yard.
Ride or bring your bicycle to the bicycle repair station.
Enjoy a BBQ (by donation to support the school).
Find out how this school is caring for the environment, caring for its community, and caring for your kids.
[Click here to download information in a pdf file]
Mill Creek NetZero Energy Home
www.greenedmonton.ca/MillCreekNetZeroHome
EnerGuide Rating 100.4
Last time to see the house before the homeowners move in.
This is the second generation net zero energy house. It generates all of its own heat and electricity on an annual basis.
No natural gas line. Electricity bill expected to be $0 to $200 per year.
See ultra-insulated walls. See large-window passive solar heating
and how to control overheating in the summer. See active solar heating that
supplies 90% of domestic water heating. See a remarkable moveable
solar power awning that supplies all the house electricity, the
rest of the house heating (!!) and even supplies extra to the
grid. See how a tiny wood stove and scrap construction wood
provides 10 years of heating security. See sustainable house
materials and finishes. See how to get high quality indoor air,
recover heat from drain water, and recover heat from waste air.
Mills Geothermal House Retrofit
www.thz.ca
EnerGuide Rating: 79
See how a heat pump pumps heat from the ground to heat this 1949 home. They have NO natural gas bills!
Get the details, the costs, the savings. Talk with the homeowner about getting heat from the ground!
See all the photos of the heat pump installation and other energy- and water-efficiency house renovations
at www.thz.ca. Learn how to be carbon neutral in
your home's electricity, home heating and car with wind-generated carbon offsets from "Bullfrog Power".
[Click here to download information in a pdf file]
Energy-Efficient Show Home
Effect Homes Builders
EnerGuide Rating: 86
Brand new R-2000-certified, energy efficient sound-proof
heat-comfortable show home with solar domestic water heating,
insulated concrete forms (ICF) walls and radiant floor heating.
Learn how to integrate energy efficiency and solar domestic hot water
into a new home's plans. See how ICF works. See how radiant floor
heating works. See how to get the Alberta government's $10,000 cheque
for an EnerGuide 86 house!
[Click here to download information in a pdf file]
EnerGuide Rating: 79
This is a great example of a house energy efficiency renovation. See how the owners renovated their 1957 home to
be both energy-efficient and up to code with new wiring and new plumbing. Home retrofit included adding an interior
wall, new triple pane windows, high efficiency furnace, programmable thermostat, carefully-sealed outside
penetrations, HRV (ventilation air heat exchanger), tile and cork flooring.
Their backyard features home-made and purchased compost bins, rain barrels to store rain water, sheet mulching and
a large backyard garden.
Come speak with the homeowners, technology specialists and an EnerGuide audit consultant to find answers to questions
about the technologies, to answer questions about how to get an energy audit and how to help in planning how to tackle
your big energy trouble spots. Learn what are the best things to do first; how to make a plan; find out where the
energy trouble spots are in a house; how to get a government cheque to help with the costs!
[Click here to download information in a pdf file]
The Judy House -- new stylish green home
Photo Gallery
EnerGuide Rating: TBC
See this very stylish house with Greenwork tile, carpet made from recycled pop bottles, recycled concrete and glass countertops and
other great sustainable materials. See a house with a small 1048 ft2 footprint but over 4000 ft2 of living space -- it even has an
800 ft2 vegetable and herb garden on the roof! Learn about the solar heating collectors from Edmonton's new solar heating
manufacturer, insulated concrete forms walls, high efficiency windows, and air heat recovery.
Come speak with the builder and technology specialists.
[Click here to download information in a pdf file]