Position: Green Building Team Member
Employer: BuildGreen Solutions
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
BuildGreen Solutions (http://www.build-green.com) is a dynamic and entrepreneurial development management and green building consulting firm. As part of the Windmill Developments (http://www.windmilldevelopments.com) family of companies…

CaGBC in cooperation with BuildGreen Solutions has developed a report intended to provide a brief summary on a series of discussions that have occurred over the past six months with private and public sector actors working on the topic of…

The Project Management Institute hosted BuildGreen’s Rodney Wilts as a guest speaker, with a presentation on managing deep green development projects.  With a room full of project managers, Rodney found keen interest in our experience project managing LEED and green projects, with…

Here is the presentation from Construct Canada on what we thought were emerging trends in 2010. Apologies for the quality – it needed to be compressed to work on our site. New and Hot in Green Building 2010 compressed

The Daily Commercial News highlights our Oxfam project as a sustainability retrofit success story.  We worked with a great team on the project, and a client committed to the triple bottom line.

Over the past six months or so we have been working with the Canada Green Building Council and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities to explore the opportunity of a National Green Loan program. For a recent meeting with potential public…

BuildGreen is delivering a series of webinars and workshops for the CaGBC in October and November.  Tapping our experience in developing and advising on LEED Platinum projects, we hope to challenge your thinking about green buildings.  What evidence creates a…

The Ottawa Chamber of Commerce’s magazine The Voice ran an article highlighting work done by Windmill/BuildGreen on Oxfam Canada’s offices. The article profiles the benefits of retrofitting an aging building using integrated design, healthy materials and energy efficient building technologies. …

Rodney Wilts will lead an Integrated Design Workshop and Scott Demark will present his One Planet Reno at the 2010 Green Building Festival, Sept. 23 and 24 in Toronto.  More info: http://www.greenbuildingfest.com

Municipalities may be reluctant to allow certain green practices due to worries about liability.  In our One Planet Reno project, we are unable to use stored rainwater for a hose bib at grade due to the City’s health concerns.  The…