What is Eco-Build?
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Eco-Build is a directory of local suppliers, builders and designers contributing to sustainable development on Salt Spring Island. Not all businesses on Eco-Build are 100 percent green but they can provide you with products, services and advice to help you decide how best to reduce your environmental impact while building, renovating, landscaping or simply enjoying your home, office and land.
EVENTS:
August 31-Sept 20, 2009
Three week intensive, Permaculture Design Certification Course,
please contact
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, 250 537 0866
Natural Home Building Workshop, June 26th - July 3rd , Neptune Farm, Salt Spring Island - www.mudgirls.ca
Who is Eco-Build for?
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Community members looking to explore sustainable building, renovation and retrofit options to make their homes, offices and land use more sustainable.
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Local businesses providing Eco-efficient products and services that may be used to build renovate or improve the sustainability of development on the island.
Why do we need Eco-Build?
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Salt Spring is developing and we can all help to ensure that it is developed sustainably. Thankfully along with property development demand for sustainable building design, products and services is also increasing and many of our local designers, builders and suppliers are responding.
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Eco-Build aims to encourage these initiatives by helping new and existing residents find local designers, builders and suppliers who can help them to make sustainable choices.
Who is I-SEA?
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The Institute for Sustainability Education and Action (I-SEA), is a local non-profit organization dedicated to being a positive force for communities, organizations, and individuals that are striving to practice sustainability. We have been supporting community based sustainability initiatives on Salt Spring Island since the start of 2003. For more information on I-SEA go to www.i-sea.org.
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Through Eco-build I-SEA hopes to help build a sustainable Salt Spring by encouraging demand for, and businesses supplying, sustainable building, renovation and retrofit options and information on the Island and throughout the Gulf Islands.
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Name of Business owner: Meror Krayenhoff
212 Cusheon Lake Road, Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2B9
Phone: (250) 537-9355
Fax: (250) 537-9361
http://www.sirewall.com/
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Sustainability Keywords: Rammed Earth
Services and Products: SIREWALL’s mission is to positively impact the environment and people’s health via the built environment, for now and for the future. SIREWALLs are Stabilized, Insulated, Rammed Earth walls. With a blend of locally-sourced soils, SIREWALL builders use a proven system along with advanced formwork customized for each design. SIREWALL offers hands-on introductory rammed earth courses for homeowners, builders, designers, architects, engineers, investors, building inspectors and those involved in green building. From a dream home or cottage to a winery or cultural centre, SIREWALL builds beautiful walls with timeless distinction. With its network of Apprentices, Certified SIREWALL Builders and Franchisees, SIREWALL continues to develop a global standard for healthy, energy efficient homes and buildings that are beautiful legacies for future generations.
Business Philosophy and Perspective:
With tens of thousands of square feet in rammed earth walls built over the last fifteen years, Terra Firma Builders President Meror Krayenhoff and his team have revolutionized a rammed earth system like no other. Leveraging SIREWALL’s research and development, Terra Firma Builders create the only rammed earth walls with compressive strength and energy efficiency beyond the strictest codes, reusable forms and a design approach that enhances indoor air quality. The SIREWALL and Terra Firma teams have more experience leading insulated rammed earth crews than all other related builders combined. Terra Firma Builders has won numerous awards for their homes and buildings, is a Certified SIREWALL Builders and is a member of the Canadian Homebuilders Association.
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