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Designing Your Own Sustainable Home: A Workshop for Owner-Builders
March 2-3, 2013 Workshop Instructor(s): Chris Magwood Endeavour Centre Peterborough, Ontario Workshop Description The dream of designing and building one’s own home is one of the most deeply held...
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Air Source Heat Pump
Among the many challenges involved in meeting the Living Building Challenge standard for Canada’s Greenest Home, one of the biggest was how to heat the home given that the LBC does not accept...
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Former Students and Their Beautiful Home
As a teacher, there is nothing more satisfying than to know that what you have taught has been absorbed, understood and sometimes even improved upon by a student. Kate and Bernat with their amazing...
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Siga Tapes Make Things Airtight
As those who have followed the progress of Canada’s Greenest Home will know, we are taking the air tightness of this house very seriously. A great deal of thought has gone into ensuring construction...
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Composting Toilets Are a Must
The Sierra Legal Defense Fund’s Sewage Report Card for Canada says “Over one trillion liters of primary or untreated sewage is collectively dumped into our waters every year by cities evaluated in this...
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How to Install a Clivus Multrum Composting Toilet
January 16, 2013 Workshop Instructor(s): Don Mills Clivus Multrum Workshop Description If you have ever been curious about how a composting toilet works and whether it might work for you, this is the...
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Hypar Lightweight Roofing Workshop
March 11-15, 2013 Workshop Instructor(s): George Nez Workshop Description Hypar is a shortened version of hyperparabolic, and hypar roofs are one of the most exciting and fascinating architectural...
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Composting Toilet Installation
Clivus Multrum composting toilet tank The Clivus Multrum composting toilet is one of the most important systems in Canada’s Greenest Home, and company representative Don Mills came up to Peterborough...
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Open House for Canada’s Greenest Home
Join us on Saturday, March 9, 10am – 4pm! Canada’s Greenest Home nears completion We have attempted to build the most sustainable home possible, and want to share the results with you! Since April,...
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Managing Job Site “Waste” a Sustainable Building Necessity
In the province of Ontario in 2002, “1.2 million tones of solid waste were generated from the construction and demolition sector” (Development of Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling in...
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Did We Build Canada’s Greenest Home?
Canada’s Greenest Home at 136 1/2 James Street, Peterborough Canada’s Greenest Home is about to go on the market, and as we switch out of construction mode and into the process of selling the home on...
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Hypar Roof Workshop with George Nez
On July 3rd, the students at Endeavour’s Sustainable New Construction program took part in a day long workshop focused on building hyper-parabolic or “Hypar” roofs. This type of roofing is much...
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Making a Rubble Trench Foundation
Rubble trench foundations offer a means by which to connect a building to frost-free ground in cold climates without resorting to the use of a concrete wall and footing. While rubble trench foundations...
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First Ever Poraver Foundation
Followers of the Endeavour blog may remember that last year we used an innovative new insulation based on Poraver expanded glass beads as our sub slab insulation for Canada’s Greenest Home. At the...
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Framing and Bales for the Farm
We do a lot of straw bale work at Endeavour, but it’s such a normal part of what we do that there haven’t been any posts that show us putting in bales for a long time! Over the past few years, we’ve...
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Home-made hydraulic lime plaster
One of the most exciting elements of the Circle Organic farm project is the home-made hydraulic lime plaster we successfully used on the interior and exterior walls of the building. With this new...
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A large, low-energy root cellar
Our 2013 project at Circle Organic farm involved constructing a large, root cellar-style vegetable storage facility attached to the vegetable processing barn. Our research showed us that small...
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Designing Your Own Sustainable Home: A Workshop for Owner-Builders
May 10 & 11, 2014 ***Workshop fully booked*** New dates will be added soon… Workshop Instructor: Chris Magwood Workshop Description The dream of designing and building one’s own home is one of the...
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Fundamentals of Building Science
September 19-22, 2014 Workshop Instructor: Jacob Deva Racusin New Frameworks Natural Building Workshop Description Building Science is relatively new field of study, but the issues it addresses are...
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Milk Paint Finishing Workshop
June 14th, 2014 Instructor: Jennylyn Pringle, owner of Homestead House Paints Paint can be one of the most toxic, health-harming substances you use in your home. That smell of “fresh paint” may evoke...
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