The GTA Construction Report – September 2009 – PAGE A5
Home Sweet Home competition coming soon to Ontario’s Green Home Building Industry
Affordable Home of the Year
JILL THOMPSON, OntarioGreenSpec.ca
– Special to The GTA Construction Report
This award recognizes the best environ-
mental performance within a tighter budget,
Ontario’s movement toward green home reducing energy costs for the people who
building and renovating is about to get a need it most. While affordability is a rela-
kick-start, thanks to a new province-wide tive term, and cost-effectiveness wins
competition that will recognize our greenest points under every Home Sweet Home cat-
homes, and the many people and products egory, the Affordable Home of the Year
that are bringing them to fruition. award is about creating a socially just soci-
The Home Sweet Home competition ety where every individual can afford a
will be formally launched this fall, with a place to call home, and where that home is
kick-off green home tour in the spring, and energy efficient and healthy to live in. Be-
the first round of judged entries scheduled cause the building budgets for these homes
for fall 2010. Builders, suppliers, trades are naturally lower, Home Sweet Home of-
people, designers and others can all be fers a dedicated category for them to en-
thinking about which of their 2010 home courage fair competition.
building projects they want to enter in the
competition.
Renovated Home of the Year
The competition is being hosted by On- There is no way to overstate the value
tarioGreenSpec.ca, the new online directory
Derek Satnik presents Home Sweet Home competition to
and importance of retrofitting existing
of products, services and information for potential sponsors of the Founding Production Home. homes. Simply put, climate change cannot
Ontario’s green building industry (www.on- be addressed without improving the energy
tariogreenspec.ca). Entries will be based on
“We believe that great homes come Custom Home of the Year
efficiency of our older housing stock. This
the whole home, and the entire team of peo-
from great teamwork, where the sum is These are typically owner-initiated proj-
category is about applying today’s knowl-
ple involved in greening it up.
greater than all the parts, so we also wanted ects, so the breadth of creativity here is end-
edge to yesterday’s buildings, turning un-
The competition intentionally uses the
to create a competition that involves the less. This category recognizes outstanding
healthy energy hogs into Home Sweet
term “sweet” rather than “green” in recog-
whole team, rather than only a particular and unique homes, often experimental in
Homes.
nition of the fact that today’s green homes
group of people involved in its creation,” nature. These are the homes that turn prob-
For more information, please email
are far more than just environmentally su-
Satnick says. Everyone involved in build- lem worksites into stunning testaments of
homesweethome@ontariogreenspec.ca or
perior. “Ecological performance is at the
ing or renovating a Home Sweet Home human ingenuity, or the ones most likely to
see http://homesweethome.ontariogreen-
heart of every Home Sweet Home award,”
award winner will be able to take credit for achieve Net-Zero energy or to be off-grid,
spec.ca/hsh.
says Derek Satnik, Acting Director of On-
playing his or her part. Builders, designers, or to use advanced health concepts and spe-
tarioGreenSpec.ca, “but with this competi-
trades-people, producers and suppliers will cialized materials. They are in a class of
tion we want to spread the word that green
all be Home Sweet Home winners. their own, and Home Sweet Home will give
homes are for everyone. Our judging crite-
them a chance to compete that way.
ria are rigorous, and they recognize the full
2. Showcasing Ontario Talent
range of ecological, health, economic and
OntarioGreenSpec.ca exists to shine a
social values embodied in today’s best
bright light on the great products and serv- CITY OF WELLAND – TENDERS
homes.”
ices available to Ontario’s high perform-
When asked how Home Sweet Home is
ance builders, and to serve Ontario’s green ENG09-33
different from other Ontario building
building sector. As such, Home Sweet
EAST MAIN STREET AND HAGAR STREET SANITARY SEWER CONSTRUC-
awards, Satnik emphasized his appreciation
Home promotes the use of “home-grown”
for the existing competitions, and the niches
TION (PART OF OAW DRAINAGE AREA COMBINED SEWER SEPARATION
materials. Not only does a competition en-
they fill, and identified the following three
trant need to be located in Ontario, the judg-
2009) AND EAST MAIN STREET WATERMAIN REPLACEMENT
features as the gap that Home Sweet Home
ing criteria also gives cumulative points for
Sealed tenders must be properly marked as to contents and include the above noted tender number
seeks to fill.
Canadian, Ontarian, and local (within 800 (ENG09-33).
km) content, with triple points when the
1. Province-wide and Cross-Sectoral
products in the home come from your re-
Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.
in Scope
gion of Ontario.
Many of the established awards compe-
CLOSING DATE: 02:15 p.m., September 14, 2009
BID OPENING: 02:30 p.m., September 14, 2009
titions are either national or regional in
3. Comparing Apples with Apples
scope, so Home Sweet Home seeks to pro-
After hearing from various builders that
COST: $21.00 includes GST (non-refundable)
vide something at the provincial scale. Fur-
they just couldn’t compete against others
ther, while there are some great
whose projects were radically different
PICK UP TENDER PACKAGE FROM: RETURN TENDER PACKAGE TO:
Ontario-wide green building awards, they
Engineering, Public Works and Transportation City Clerks Department
from their own, Home Sweet Home seeks
Services Department (Second Floor) (Main Floor)
are typically sector-specific (design, con-
to give everyone in the low-rise home 60 East Main Street 60 East Main Street Welland, ON L3B 3X4
struction, wood, steel, landscaping, etc).
building/renovating industry a fair shot at a
Welland, ON L3B 3X4
prize using the following four prize cate-
gories
Tender documents/specifications may be viewed on our website at:
http://www.welland.ca/WeeklyInfo/Tenders.asp.
Production Home of the Year
Tender documents will be made available as of August 31, 2009.
This award recognizes excellence in build-
ing design, construction and materials that
Sal Iannello, P. Eng., B.B.A., M.A.
General Manager, Engineering, Public Works
can be replicated in hundreds of homes,
and Transportation Services/City Engineer
significantly impacting Ontario’s housing For more details please visit
market. While any one production home www.welland.ca you can find all
may not seem as impressive in green im-
current tender opportunities listed on
pact as its custom-built counterpart, this
our Bid Opportunities page.
category allows us to recognize the trans-
formational impact when production homes
go green.
Post your tenders with the GTA for $100 per project. For more
details contact Chase at chase@cnrgp.com or 905-228-1151
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