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Представництво Uponor в Україні
просп. Миру, б.15, оф.405
м. Київ, Україна
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Edelweiss,
Québec,
Canada

Edelweiss

Demonstration home in Quebec earns LEED® Platinum

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As energy-saving and high-performance homes gain traction, a Québec demonstration home has taken cost savings to a new low with a yearly total of $385 (U.S.) in heating and cooling charges. And this includes the extra electricity costs for a plug-in to power an electric vehicle. The home is the first house in Canada to be certified Platinum under the new version of LEED® for Homes. 

The 1,552-square-foot home includes a long list of environmentally friendly products, including a radiant heating system from Uponor. The home cost about $190,000 (U.S.) to build translating into about $122 (U.S.) per square foot. ”You don’t have to blow the bank to have a high performance house,” Mike Reynolds said, co-owner of Ecohome, the designer and builder of the demonstration home.

Місце знаходження
Québec, Canada
Рік завершення будівництва
2015
Тип будівлі
Приватні будинки
Тип проєкту
Референс об'єкти

1st LEED® Platinum-certified home in Canada

The home, dubbed the Edelweiss House, is a demonstration home and thus has more features than an average home would need. For example, it boasts three heating systems with the primary heating source coming from the sun. “The majority of the heating requirement is met by the windows,” Reynolds said. “Our primary heat source would be passive solar gain.” 

In addition, a 10-zone hydronic radiant floor distribution system was paired with an electric boiler to eliminate cold floors (even with a R-32 worth of mineral wool under the slab). Finally, a ductless air-to-air heat pump should work when solar doesn’t provide enough heat. “The radiant system will guarantee that the slab will never get icy,” Reynolds said. And with the harsh Canadian winters, the radiant heat will be much appreciated by homeowners who will feel ultimate thermal comfort and superior air quality with Uponor’s radiant system. 

With a goal to use the home as a teaching tool, the Edelweiss House includes finishes, materials and fixtures with low environmental impact including low-flow plumbing fixtures, mineral wool insulation (including that used under the slab), a vegetative roof and interior paints and floor adhesives with zero volatile organic compounds. 

“The biggest message we are after is not to look at the building-code base requirement as a target to achieve and then just resign yourself to spending tons of money every month to pump heat into your house, “Reynolds said. “People think the payback is going to be 25 years, and it’s not. The payback starts when your neighbor turns on the heat and you don’t.”

Edelweiss

Outdoor photo of the Edelweiss demonstration home in Quebec Canada
Living room image of LEED® Platinum-certified home in Canada featuring Uponor's radiant heating system
The kitchen image of LEED® Platinum-certified home in Canada featuring Uponor's radiant heating system
Edelweiss residential Uponor case study; kitchen image

You don’t have to blow the bank to have a high performance house.

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The Weber Hill Villas are comprised of 24 attached and detached single-family homes nestled along a quiet forest with lot sizes ranging from one-quarter to one acre. These LEED® and Energy Star® homes are ADA-compliant and built to withstand 250-mph, wind-blown debris. With a top-of-the-line design in mind, the team at Dale Hicks and Associates, LLC chose Uponor PEX piping systems for the plumbing and fire safety — a brand they have relied on for years. 
 

“Uponor Construction Services designed the system, and we simply installed their design,” said Dale Hicks of Dale Hicks and Associates, LLC. “They have been of immeasurable service to us. I refer Uponor PEX to colleagues all the time.” 

All 24 homes in the development feature Uponor AquaPEX® plumbing systems and AquaSAFE™ fire sprinkler systems with ProPEX® fittings in ½" to 1½" sizes. The multipurpose fire sprinkler systems seamlessly integrate into the home’s cold-water plumbing system, which increases the speed of installation and provides homeowners with greater peace of mind. 

“Weber Hill Villas is just our latest development, and we will apply a lifetime of work, knowledge and innovation to make it truly world class,” explained Hicks. 
 

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Jesse Faust, a former Madison firefighter and EMT, sustained partial paralysis after a severe car accident in 2022. During the construction of his new home, Faust prioritized fire safety, and after seeing how commercial buildings benefit from sprinkler systems, he chose to incorporate a residential solution with Uponor AquaSAFE™ — a multipurpose PEX piping system that combined with his home’s AquaPEX® plumbing.

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