Previous Events

Celebrate a Canadian Renovation Success Story

Celebrate a Canadian Renovation Success Story
October 6, 2011

The Sustainable Housing Foundation invites you to visit one of Canada’s greenest homes.

Meet homeowner turned renovator, John Bell, and learn how the previous host of HGTV’s World’s Greenest Homes created an energy and water efficient home in North Toronto.

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Showcasing the Cross Border Challenge at GreenBuild

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Showcasing the Cross Border Challenge at GreenBuild
October 4th to 7th, 2011

The Sustainable Housing Foundation will introduce the Cross Border Builders Challenge in participation with BILD at GreenBuild 2011 in Toronto, which runs October 4th – 7th.

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Developing an Alternative Approach to Green Building in the GTA

Developing an Alternative Approach to Green Building in the GTA

November 2010
The Sustainable Builders Leadership Forum 

Sponsored by Enbridge Gas Distribution, the Sustainable Builders Leadership Forum – Alternative approach to Green Building was held November 17, 2010 in Vaughan as the initiation meeting to forming The Sustainable Builders Leadership Team.

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Builders Visioning Session

June 2010

The Sustainable Housing Foundation held a brainstorming session in June 2010 to gather feedback from builders on the top barriers to building sustainable homes and discover their future vision.

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Building Sustainable Advantage

May 3rd, 2010

GTA builders and manufacturers came together May 3rd at the Donalda Golf Club in the Don Valley for an afternoon forum for focused toward builders on why you should be building green, and how to leverage energy and water efficiency to work better with municipalities, followed by a Builders’ Den. Building Sustainable Advantage sessions bring builders together to inform each other on hot topics, discuss contentious issues and network to strengthen the sustainable housing industry.

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Builders’ Den

November 2009

On November 24, 2009, the Sustainable Housing Foundation put on a builder and manufacturer engagement session dubbed the Builders’ Den (along the lines of the TV show Dragons’ Den).

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The Green is 50: Builders Challenge Awards Presentation

September 2009

The Green Building Festival at IIDEX

John Godden and Lenard Hart had the pleasure of awarding all the builders who took part in the Green is 50: Builder Challenge pilot project at the 2009 Green Building Festival, held in conjunction with IIDEX.

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