Passive House Langley

04/17/2025

12/18/2023

100 years ago

03/20/2023

03/11/2023

1916 Sears catalog home. They shipped the entire house to you by railroad car. Sears was like Ikea before Ikea.

Friends and family would come from all around to help the owner build it.

Most were built in New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Sears sold more than 70,000 mail-order homes between 1908 and 1940. Some enthusiasts estimate that about 70% of Sears houses are still standing today.

Sears provided building plans and specifications, along with the lumber and any other materials needed. The shipment included everything from nails, screws, and paint to prebuilt building parts, such as staircases and dining nooks.

03/03/2023

This is a net zero building under construction in Toronto

Heavy equipment operators have completed excavation work at the site of Toronto’s first net-zero energy and emissions community centre in Joyce Trimmer Park along Sheppard Avenue East in northeast Scarborough. The contractor, Aquicon Construction Company Ltd., has begun forming the foundation of t...

08/24/2022

A house with a ridiculous roofline

07/23/2022