High-performance homes coming to Oakville and SWO
March 15, 2019
Great Gulf recently unveiled a new high-performance model home designed to maximize a homebuyer’s comfort while significantly reducing energy use. The Optimum Discovery Home features several leading-edge building design and construction technologies, offering homebuyers improved comfort, better indoor air quality, and tools to efficiently control energy use resulting in lower utility bills.
Great Gulf, an industry leader committed to building homes to higher standards, incorporates a whole-home approach using energy-efficient technologies and strategies to build homes that are more durable, sustainable and are more likely to increase in value over the years.
“This Optimum Discovery Home features the latest level of Energy Star requirements,” says Shaun Joffe, Great Gulf executive director Sustainability and Building Science.
“Our long-term commitment is to build energy-efficient and sustainable homes, providing our homeowners and their families with improved thermal comfort, air quality control and ample natural daylight. Through our partnership with Enbridge Gas, we are working diligently to educate staff on the latest technologies and innovation in high-performance construction to produce better buildings.”
“Great Gulf is building high-performance homes to differentiate themselves from the competition and offer customers tomorrow’s homes today,” says Andy Oding, a widely recognized building consultant.
“Homebuyers typically look for aesthetic finishes, but Great Gulf goes beyond this by using innovative construction techniques and materials to build homes that are on average 20 per cent more energy efficient than required under the current Ontario Building Code.”
Great Gulf’s Optimum Discovery Home was built with the support of Union Gas’ Optimum Home Program, which equips builders in legacy Union Gas territory, with leading-edge technical and marketing training from renowned building science experts with an extensive background in energy efficiency and sustainable housing.
The goal is to help builders design, build and market high-performance homes that exceed the current Ontario Building Code efficiency standards. The Optimum Discovery Home is located at the Oakville job site.
“Through the Optimum Home Program, builders have access to the knowledge and tools that will assist them in their journey to produce some of the most efficient homes on the market. In turn, homebuyers will benefit from high-performance homes that are more healthy, durable, and comfortable to live in, while significantly cutting energy bills.”