Welcome to the 2024 Bow Valley-wide Green Buildings Open House!
The Green Buildings Open House is a self-guided tour of Bow Valley's high-performance and sustainable building practices.
On this page, you will find the homes that will be open for this year's tour and links to details of each home. You can use these details to choose the homes you want to visit on Saturday, June 1, 2024.
This is an open-house-style tour. When the homes are open, you can make your own way there, and the homeowners and volunteers will show you around. You do not need to register in advance for the tour unless you wish to tour the Spring Creek site in Canmore, where registration for a specific tour time is mandatory.
As always, we encourage you to get creative and use low-carbon forms of transportation to commute between host sites.
The Green Buildings Open House is being run in conjunction with the 2024 Eco-Solar Home Tour.
Thank you to our property owners for stepping up to show their homes and our sponsors for helping keep this a FREE tour. We'll see you on the tour!
Green Buildings Open House Tour Day
Saturday, June 1, 2024 - 11 am - 4 pm
Plan your tour…
BANFF SITES
BANFF RECREATION GROUNDS PUBLIC PAVILION - PASSIVE HOUSE
The Pavilion is designed and constructed to Passive House Low Energy Building standards and is expected to have an annual heating demand of less than 30 kWh/(m2a) and an overall low carbon footprint.
TOWN OF BANFF OPERATIONS COMPOUND - BIOMASS ENERGY CENTRE
The Town of Banff has created a biomass district heating system that uses a waste product to provide renewable heat for four municipal buildings.
CANMORE SITES
FAIRHOLME LANEWAY HOME
This 600-square-foot independent, legal, two-bedroom accessory dwelling unit has been designed using Passive House principles. This property showcases how you can create a spacious living area on a relatively small footprint, with tailored design and southern exposure.
HOMESTEADS NET-ZERO PASSIVE HOUSE
This is a net-zero Passive House under the final stages of construction atop a reclaimed coal mine and will use a Ground-source heat pump (vertical closed loop system) to heat and cool the finished property.
LARCH DEEP ENERGY RETROFIT
This home, currently under construction, is an example of a Deep Energy Retrofit to a modular home with the addition of an extra story.
The retrofit has been designed with passive house principles in mind, along sustainable solutions to extend the life cycle of built substance and improve energy efficiency interior air climate.
LIONS PARK NEAR NET ZERO HOME
This homeowner is a retired engineer with a passion for sustainable energy. His dream of building a NetZero Home, which takes advantage of all the natural energy assets available at a given location, has come to fruition in this new build, which is currently under construction.
RALPH CONNOR UNITED MEMORIAL CHURCH - VENDOR HUB A& COMMUNITY SOLAR
Over the past few years, the church has committed significant resources to upgrading the energy efficiency of this listed heritage building.
RCMUC is also the proud host of Alberta's first community-owned solar array in partnership with the Bow Valley Green Energy Cooperative.
At our Vendor Hub, local installers will showcase the products and services they offer to help people improve the energy efficiency of their properties.
SPRING CREEK NEAR NET ZERO CONDOMINIUM
Timberstone Mountain Lodge is certified as Built Green Platinum, is 42.3% more efficient than an NECB base model home and is near Net Zero.
PLEASE NOTE - this is a closed site - Pre-registration for site tours is required to attend. SECURE YOUR PLACE HERE.
DEAD MANS FLATS SITES
DEAD MAN'S FLATS SOLAR ARRAY & E-VEHICLES
These homeowners have experience installing solar twice on two separate homes. They have been proud solar homeowners for over nine years and have a wealth of knowledge to share.
Harvie Heights SITES
HARVIE HEIGHTS FULL ELECTRIFICATION
This 1950's home has undergone an electrification deep energy retrofit. The homeowners have electrified everything and have removed their connection to the main gas line. This household not only heats their home using their solar panels but charges and runs two electric vehicles and an e-bike!
French Language Tour is available at this site!
A huge thank you to our 2024 tour sponsors
SILVER SPONSORS
Bronze Sponsors
If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please find more detailed event information and a description of all sponsor benefits in the linked sponsorship package here: SPONSORSHIP PACKAGE.