2011 Open Houses
The open houses can be viewed at any time between 12:00 and 4:00pm
Saturday, June 4, 2011. No pre‑registration is required. The homeowners and Eco-Solar Home Tour Society volunteers will
be there to tell you about the exciting features of the home and to answer any questions you may have.
Free Open House -- tour on your own
We have seven exciting sites on the tour this year.
[Click here to download a summary sheet to take with you on the tour]
Sites Map: Click
here for a Google map of the sites and go visit them on your own.
Bike Map: Click here
to download a large city bike map (7.2 MB) with the sites marked on it so you can cycle to them, or
(click here to download a small version of the same city bike map (632 kB))
Site #1. Mills Geothermal Upgrade
10821-79 Avenue, Edmonton
www.thz.ca
Site hosts: Andrew and Karen Mills and colleagues
EnerGuide Rating: 79
This is a 1949 house that was upgraded from a drafty Energuide of 39 to a near new rating of 79.
This house features geothermal heating, extensive energy efficiency upgrades, a xeriscaped front yard, a number of LED lighting ideas,
and a new grid-tied solar electric system. This house features extensive explanations on posters all around the site.
[Click here to download information in a pdf file]
Site #2. Pearson Maraj Cogeneration House
7615-111Street, Edmonton
Site hosts: Vik Maraj and Sheryl Pearson (homeowners) plus members of the project team
This duplex is the first residential installation in North America of an electric/heat cogeneration unit.
This new house features a passive solar design with R-50 walls and an R-100 roof. The house also features
extensive water conservation features including a large rainwater collection tank.
[Click here to download information in a pdf file]
Site #3. Mill Creek NetZero House
9805-84 Avenue, Edmonton
www.greenedmonton.ca/MillCreekNetZeroHome
Site hosts: Conrad Nobert (homeowner) plus members of the project team
EnerGuide Rating 100.4
The Mill Creek Net Zero House is a home that produces more energy than it consumes in a year.
This house was completed last year and features a passive solar design with solar electric and solar thermal
panels to gather energy. The solar electric panels are on movable awnings that shade the windows in summer
to cool the house and then retract in the winter to let in the suns heat.
[Click here to download information in a pdf file]
Site #4. Belgravia Green
11536-74 Avenue, Edmonton
Site hosts: Effect Home Builders
This is a housing development with three houses side-by-side. Each house uses energy efficiency technologies
in a different way. In this case there is a Net Zero house, a Near Net Zero house, and a geothermal heated house
with an Energuide rating of 90. These three houses will be under construction on the tour so many of the features
will be visible.
[Click here to download information in a pdf file]
Site #5. Beverly Heights Near Net Zero House
3626 Ada Blvd, Edmonton
Site hosts: Manasc Isaac Architects, Shafraaz Kaba
Currently under construction this unique house is very narrow and tall
to reduce its coverage of the lot and to maximize its collection of the sun. The house has a passive solar and 2
daylighting design that uses the sun to heat and light all rooms. The small footprint allows the owners to plan
for an edible landscape. This house design is currently near net zero; the addition of more solar panels in the
future will allow it to become net zero.
[Click here to download information in a pdf file]
Site #6. Windsor Park Net Zero House
8340-120 Street, Edmonton
Site hosts: Peter Amerongen, Habitat Studio and Workshop
Windsor Park Net Zero House is a home that is still under construction. This energy efficient home was being
built to an Energuide 86 standard. What makes this house truly interesting is that once you get to a certain standard
in energy efficiency the step to net zero can be a smaller one than we think. In this case the addition of a
highly-efficient geothermal heat pump and a larger solar electric system was all it took to take a nicely efficient
house all the way to the net zero energy goal.
[Click here to download information in a pdf file]
Site #7. Dusseault Naturalized Landscaping
14011-91 Avenue, Edmonton
Site hosts: Paul and Cynthia Dusseault (homeowners)
In this project the homeowners upgraded the 1958 era landscaping in front of their house
to a more natural, water efficient, lower maintenance design. The homeowners will describe how they decided on the
overall design and the selection and location of the plants and other features.
[Click here to download information in a pdf file]
