Homes

Our Advantage

Our dedication to sustainability was never an add-on feature but has been embedded in our service offering since day 1. In fact, we’re the only firm in Ottawa that’s never even been involved in a minimum code-built project.

LEED, Passive House, Living Building Challenge, etc, are all good starting points for sustainability, but they don’t always capture all the relevant environmental criteria, and they certainly don’t fully address the importance of healthy air quality and healthy materials. Our approach was developed to also optimize the ecological, health and financial aspects of construction.

Net Zero Homes

Blackbaer Sustainability provides design, building science services and construction management for net zero carbon and ultra-sustainable homes.

Recent

Blackbaer managed the technical design and engineering of Ottawa’s first mass timber homes. Using sustainable timber, we plan, design and project manage according to any architectural style that you prefer.

Innovation

We’ve achieved many ‘firsts’:
  • The first residential CLT project in Ottawa
  • The first mass timber net-zero building in eastern Ontario
  • The first deep retrofit of a century home in Old Ottawa South
  • The first PWF Foundation in Central Ottawa
  • The first Rammed Earth structure in Ottawa
  • The first Rammed Earth Home in Ottawa
  • The most energy efficient rammed earth wall in the world