Rodney will be speaking on the latest innovations in green buildings at the Green Real Estate Forum April 4th. Here’s a more detailed description of the session:
SESSION A3
AN UPDATE ON THE MOST INNOVATIVE SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS AND INTELLIGENT BUILDING…

From the Daily Commercial News
January 9, 2012
by Patricia Williams
Greening of existing “energy-hogging” buildings is expected to gain traction in coming years, says Windmill Development Group founder Jonathan Westeinde.
“The existing building stock is aging,” he told…

BuildGreen as a firm typically has our fingers in a buffet of great pies. We thought it would be helpful to outline a few of the projects currently underway:
Cathedral Hill – this Windmill Development project is (very worthily) taking…

December 1 BuildGreen Solutions is presenting two sessions at the National Green Building Conference in Toronto – http://www.nationalgreenbuildingexpo.com/pre_show_2011/index.php . The first session is presented by Rodney Wilts and Jonathan Westeinde and will focus on leading-edge case studies from deep green…

Green development is making the leap from the building-scale to the neighbourhood-scale. A new way of building is taking hold, bringing together concepts from transit-oriented development, new urbanism, renewable energy technologies and lifecycle carbon accounting.  Such communities show dramatic ecological…

Kevin Bourne at Reinventing Ottawa had some nice things to say about us – read below or follow this link http://reinventingottawa.blogspot.com/ :
DOCKSIDE GREEN: WHAT LEBRETON COULD HAVE BEEN
After publishing a blog post yesterday about the Dockside Green development…

Is Dockside the World’s Greenest Neighbourhood? Kaid Benfield from The Atlantic Magazine thinks so – see the article below or follow this link: http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/08/is-this-the-worlds-greenest-neighborhood/244121/
A visit to the 15-acre Canadian development that’s leading the way with green design, stormwater recycling,…

Cathedral Hill is an innovative luxury condominium building located downtown Ottawa, targeting LEED Platinum. BuildGreen is providing development management and sustainability advisement. Registration is now open at www.cathedralhill.ca. Look for more information coming soon, along with the opening of the…

Scott Demark gave a presentation on the One Planet Reno to the Young Environmental Professionals on May 31, at the University of Ottawa.  If you missed it, check out the slides to get a sense of all of the…

This press release was sent out on the wire yesterday summarizing our work on the emerging SERA standard:
Review of International Aggregate Standards Finds “No Rival” for SERA

BuildGreen Solutions Finds Draft SERA Standards the most rigorous…