Greensmart News
Greensmart is looking for Accommodations for temporary workers
November 10, 2011 - 11:59amLooking for extra income? If you have a room to rent, we can help! Greensmart is developing an ongoing roster of available rooms for rent in Dawson Creek BC. We would like to help our new employees who may be temporary or relocating to...
Further Accolades for Alcroft Homes
September 21, 2011 - 12:15pmAlcroft Homes' EnerGuide 86 certified house is garnering a lot of local attention! The house, now completed, was featured in an article by the Grande Prairie Daily Herald Tribune last week. The article touts this home as one of the most energy-...
Congratulations to Alcroft Homes for achieving EnerGuide 86!
August 2, 2011 - 10:28amAlcroft Homes in Grande Prairie is a longtime Greensmart customer. Their latest project, built with Greensmart SIPs, has been blower door tested at EnerGuide 86. In a pre-drywall test conducted recently, this Custom Home achieved 0.3 ACH (Air...
Update on the BC 2012 Building Code
June 27, 2011 - 2:06pmThere are many ways to get to EnerGuide 80, and only one way to reliably measure it. Through a blower door test. We've known for some time that the 2012 Building Code will lead to tighter regulation on the level of energy-efficiency needed for new...
Greensmart Appears in Edmonton Journal
June 22, 2011 - 10:15amA Story by Jane Cardillo in Saturday June 18's Edmonton Journal features Greensmart SIPs as the supplier for North House Inc's Railhead project. A portion of our interview is below: "The same material that insulates a new show home in Edmonton's...
Cypress Hills Interprovincial park building recognized as Green Leader
April 25, 2011 - 4:52pmThe Alberta government is highlighting one of our Greensmart projects as an achievement of green building. Part of a series of green building projects for various provincial parks, the Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park visitor's centre (...
BC Hydro focusing on EnerGuide to reduce consumption of energy
February 9, 2011 - 11:21amA couple of months ago, Nina Windham from BC Hydro interviewed John Nicol, Senior Policy Analyst with the Building and Safety Standard branch of B.C.'s Ministry of Housing, regarding some building code changes coming to BC in October 2011. The...
Local BC Governments sign letter asking for better energy efficiency rules
January 31, 2011 - 1:56pmCheck out the article below from the Alaska Highway News. The article outlines the leading role the municipal governments of Fort St. John and Dawson Creek, BC are taking in demanding energy efficient buildings in their jurisdictions. Greensmart...
"First New Modular Classroom gets Thumbs up from kids" says Aldergrove Star
January 24, 2011 - 3:23pmBy Kurt Langmann - Aldergrove Star Published: January 19, 2011 4:00 PM Updated: January 19, 2011 4:38 PM A group of Kindergarten students from Langley's James Kennedy School were among the first to look over the first of 138 new school...
"New modular classrooms...will be nicer than some of the schools they are put beside..." says The Langley Advance
January 24, 2011 - 2:32pmForget the grubby old school portables that were sweltering in summer and freezing in winter. The new 138 modular classrooms being constructed by Shelter Industries in Aldergrove will be nicer than some of the schools they will be put beside...
