LEED Homes | Energy & Atmosphere

The category, ‘Energy & Atmosphere’, pertains to improving the overall energy performance of a home. Guidelines are provided for Energy, insulation, air leakage, windows, heating & cooling systems, domestic hot water, lighting, appliances and renewable energy.

EA c-1 | Optimize Energy Performance

Accurate Dorwin
Airia Brands Inc./Lifebreath
Amvic Building System/ICF | Amvic ICF blocks use Amvic’s FormLock TM interlocking system which has deeper grooves than competing products and allows the blocks to be fully reversible. This allows Amvic ICF to be stacked quickly, easily and without the need for glue or ties. Amvic’s user friendly, easy to install system increases job site efficiency and worker productivity, which saves time and money.
Beaver Plastics
BioBased Insulation
Boreal Geothermal Inc.
Cansolair Inc.
Demilec/Heatlok Soya | HEATLOK SOYA – Spray Polyurethane Foam Insulation with high R value, made from recycled plastics and vegetable oils with Zero ODS. DEMILEC recycles your plastic bottles into insulation and offers you a high performance and durable envelope system. Designed to save energy.
Dryvit | Dryvit’s Outsulation, an Exterior Insulation and Finish System offers the most effective insulation strategy for you project with the smallest ecological footprint.
DuPont/Tyvek | DuPont provides environmentally sustainable building solutions for commercial and residential construction. DuPont products and systems work together to create healthier safer, more energy-efficient buildings and homes. To see a copy of our “Sustainable Building” brochure go to our website.
The Dyson Airblade™ hand dryer is the fastest hand dryer – it purifies the air before blowing it onto hands, so it’s hygienic and it also uses up to 80% less energy than warm air hand dryers.
Eco Innovation
Emercor Ltd.
EnergyBank
Fraser Shading Systems Inc. | FRASER SHADING SYSTEMS manufactures MechoShade Systems and is a leader in solarshading solutions for sustainable and LEED projects. We offer manual and automated rollerblind systems for integration into 3rd party low voltage and lighting controls, SolarTrac®, ImageShade™ and EcoVeil®.
Formtech International Corp.
GE Lighting | Discover GE’s full range of sustainable lighting solutions, like the new GE Infusion® LED module, Find out how GE Lighting products can help you maximize LEED® project points
Good Shepard Wool Insulation
Hunter Douglas Canada Ltd.
Hubbell Canada LP | GreenWise™ is our sustainability initiative to show you how reducing lighting energy, without sacrificing illumination, can be affordably achieved with leading edge, sustainable lighting solutions.
Igloo Cellulose Inc.
Illumineer Ltd | Illumineer specializes in Custom LED lighting solutions, and is a proud winner of the “Next Icon LED Challenge”. We work diligently with our clients to design, manufacture, and certify their lighting needs.
Inline Fiberglass Ltd. | Inline’s fiberglass window frames offer condensation resistance, dimensional stability,
durability and, above all, superior thermal resistance and energy savings to help a project potentially earn LEED points.
Knauf Insulation
Krumpers Olar Solutions
Les Energies Solex Energy
Logix Insulated Concrete Forms | LOGIX design solutions and installation expertise make building with LOGIX easy and profitable. And the enhanced R-Value solutions offered by LOGIX will ensure that your customers fall in love with their LOGIX XtraComfortTM Homes and Basements.
Mammoth-WEBCO Inc.
Marathon International/Eternal | The 98% efficient stainless steel Eternal Hybrid water heater promises no pressure drop issues and no cold water sandwich [unlike tankless], combining endless hot water with high output flow capacity. It comes with a .96 Energy Factor rating, stainless steel heat exchanger and built-in 2 gallon reserve tank.
Marathon International/Baxi | Up to 98% efficient, Baxi high efficiency combi heating and domestic hot water wall-hung boilers are no bigger than a kitchen cabinet, freeing up valuable living space and cutting fuel use and emissions significantly over conventional heating appliances. Baxi high output designer radiators and towel warmers perform in high and low temperature applications.
NextEnergy Inc.
Noritz
Novatech Energy
Nu-Air Ventilation Systems Inc.
Nudura | NUDURA Insulated Concrete Forms offer: • Superior energy efficiency • Greater fire protection and sound resistance • Limitless design capabilities • Industry leading form attributes that allow for faster build times and reduced shipping and labour costs • Contribute to the LEED®.
Optimum Energy Products Ltd.
Philips Lighting | Philips leads the lighting industry with a long history of unique first-to-market, efficient lighting solutions, such as our award-winning LED portfolio, and the industry’s lowest mercury content T8 lamps.
Polycrete
Pollard Window
Reliable Controls Corporation
RenewABILITY Energy Inc.
ReTherm Energy Systems Inc.
Rheem Canada Ltd.
Rinnai Tankless Water Heaters | The premier name in tankless water heating brings you two new series of condensing Tankless Water Heaters (up to 96.5% AFUE efficiency) that can be easily retrofitted to replace traditional, less efficient boilers and provide simple, space-saving installation. QUICK INFO
SealTigh
Step Warmfloor Ontario Ltd. | Unique polymeric flat heating elements use 50% less energy than hydronic or electric cable radiant floor systems.
•    Even heat distribution with self-regulating nano-terchnology
•    Low-voltage, 24V AC or DC
•    Flexible and thin (1.2mm), cut to size on the jobsite.
•    20% recycled content, 0 % waste in manufacturing
Solatube International Inc.
SunProject Toro Inc.
Takagi Canada, Inc.
Texmar Control Systems
Therma-Ray Inc.
Thermapan | Thermapan Structural Insulated Panels [SIPs] are used for walls, foundations, roofs and floors of residential and commercial projects of all sizes. Exceptionally energy-efficient, SIPs can be a major asset in EnerGuide 80+ and LEED design.
Venmar Ventilation Inc.
Viessmann Manufacturing Company Inc. | High-efficiency heating boilers, industry-leading solar thermal and biomass systems, designed for complete system integration, to achieve maximum energy savings and reduced environmental impact from one of the world’s leading manufacturers of innovative fossil fuel and renewable energy heating systems.
Watercycles Energy Recovery Inc.

EA c-2 | Insulation

Arxx Building Products
Amvic Building System/ICF | Amvic ICF blocks use Amvic’s FormLock TM interlocking system which has deeper grooves than competing products and allows the blocks to be fully reversible. This allows Amvic ICF to be stacked quickly, easily and without the need for glue or ties. Amvic’s user friendly, easy to install system increases job site efficiency and worker productivity, which saves time and money.
BASF Canada
Demilec/Heatlok Soya | HEATLOK SOYA – Spray Polyurethane Foam Insulation with high R value, made from recycled plastics and vegetable oils with Zero ODS. DEMILEC recycles your plastic bottles into insulation and offers you a high performance and durable envelope system. Designed to save energy.
Dryvit | Dryvit’s Outsulation, an Exterior Insulation and Finish System offers the most effective insulation strategy for you project with the smallest ecological footprint.
Dura Foam/Canadian Industrial Distributors Inc. | Canadian Industrial Distributors CCMC-approved DuraFoam Green Polyurethane Foam with non-ozone depleting, non-flammable propellant and no VOCs formulation offers professionals high green performance at low cost. 100% product yield, easy and speedy installation.
Durisol Building Systems Inc.
Emercor Ltd.
ELT Easy Green: Green Roof Systems
Good Shepard Wool Insulation
Icynene Insulation
Nudura | NUDURA Insulated Concrete Forms offer:
• Superior energy efficiency
• Greater fire protection and sound resistance
• Limitless design capabilities
• Industry leading form attributes that allow for faster build times and reduced shipping and labour costs
• Contribute to LEED®
Owens Corning
Polycrete
Roxul Inc.
SilveRboard® | SilveRboard® is high performance insulation made from Expanded Polystyrene [EPS], coated with reflective lamination. It offers a higher R-value and provides an air/moisture barrier eliminating house wrap. This increases jobsite efficiency and reduces labour costs.
Thermafiber, Inc. | Thermafiber mineral wool insulation is used for many applications in commercial and residential construction. Our insulation contains up to 90% recycled content and contributes to 33 LEED Green Building Credits.

EA c-3 | Air Infiltration

CertainTeed | CertainTeed’s MemBrain was designed on an ingenious principle: If you can’t escape the possibility of moisture entering a wall, why not let the moisture in the wall escape? Made from an advanced material that changes its permeability with the ambient humidity condition, MemBrain acts like a traditional vapor retarder to protect wall cavities, but also allows closed building envelope systems to dramatically increase their drying potential with seasonal climatic changes.

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EA c-4 | Windows

Alumicor | is a preferred supplier of architectural aluminum profiles extruded exclusively in recycled aluminum billet [minimum 40% to 75% recycled material], complying with the requirements of Materials and Resources Credit 4 for Recycled Content under LEED.
Dashwood Industries Limited/Andersen
Donat Flamand Inc.
Eco Insulating Glass | Meet the glass that insulates like a wall, and redefines energy efficiency. Reduce energy costs and increase your comfort level with the world’s most efficient insulated glass. R-Value from 7 to 20.
Fenestration Ltd.
Fibertec Window and Door
Hunter Douglas Canada Ltd.
Inline Fiberglass Ltd. | Inline’s fiberglass window frames offer condensation resistance, dimensional stability,
durability and, above all, superior thermal resistance and energy savings to help a project potentially earn LEED points [under EAp2 and EAc1].
Laflamme Portes et Fenêtres
Marvin WIndows / Integra
Mitsubishi Electric Sales Canada Inc.
Solatube International Inc.
Thermotech Fiberglass Fenestration Ltd.
Window Film Systems

EA c-5 | Heating and Cooling Distribution Systems

HeatLink Group Inc.
IPEX Inc
Legalett
Rinnai Tankless Water Heaters | The premier name in tankless water heating brings you two new series of condensing Tankless Water Heaters (up to 96.5% AFUE efficiency) that can be easily retrofitted to replace traditional, less efficient boilers and provide simple, space-saving installation. QUICK INFO
Rona Canada
Therma-Ray Inc.

EA c-6 | Space Heating and Cooling Equipment

Airtechni
Baxi Heating Solutions
Cansolair Inc.
CGC Group | With no compressor operation in heating, the CGC systems delivers better building energy performance and contributes towards more LEED points than traditional WSHP.
Conematic Heating Systems Inc.
Confort Geothermique
Earth Energy Solutions
Ecologix Heating Technologies Inc.
Enertran Technology Inc.
FHP Manufacturing
GeoSmart Energy Inc.
Geothermix
Groundheat Systems
Hydron Module
Nu-Air Ventilation Systems Inc.
NY Thermal Inc.
Rinnai Tankless Water Heaters | The premier name in tankless water heating brings you two new series of condensing Tankless Water Heaters (up to 96.5% AFUE efficiency) that can be easily retrofitted to replace traditional, less efficient boilers and provide simple, space-saving installation.QUICK INFO
Siemens Building Technologies Ltd.
Taco Ltd.
Temp-Cast
Tirino Corp.
TLM
Viessmann Manufacturing Company Inc. | High-efficiency heating boilers, industry-leading solar thermal and biomass systems, designed for complete system integration, to achieve maximum energy savings and reduced environmental impact from one of the world’s leading manufacturers of innovative fossil fuel and renewable energy heating systems.
Your Solar Home Inc.

EA c-7 | Water Heating

Chateau Solar Heating
FirstSmart Sensor Corp.
Global Solar Energy Inc.
HLT Energies
JAS Filtration Inc.
Krumpers Solar Solutions
Marathon International/Eternal | The 98% efficient stainless steel Eternal Hybrid water heater promises no pressure drop issues and no cold water sandwich [unlike tankless], combining endless hot water with high output flow capacity. It comes with a .96 Energy Factor rating, stainless steel heat exchanger and built-in 2 gallon reserve tank.
Marathon International/Baxi | Up to 98% efficient, Baxi high efficiency combi heating and domestic hot water wall-hung boilers are no bigger than a kitchen cabinet, freeing up valuable living space and cutting fuel use and emissions significantly over conventional heating appliances. Baxi high output designer radiators and towel warmers perform in high and low temperature applications.
Rheem Canada Ltd.
Rinnai | The premier name in tankless water heating brings you two new series of condensing Tankless Water Heaters (up to 96.5% AFUE efficiency) that can be easily retrofitted to replace traditional, less efficient boilers and provide simple, space-saving installation. QUICK INFO
Roth Canada
Runtal North America, Inc.
Solar Heating Canada
Solar-Max Heating Systems Inc.
Solarnetix Inc.
Stiebel Eltron Inc.
Thermo Dynamics Ltd.
Your Solar Home Inc.

EA c-8 | Lighting

Litemor Distributors Ltd.
Bluebeam Software, Inc.
Canlyte Inc.
CeeLite
Cooper Lighting Canada
Eurofase Inc.
GE Lighting | Discover GE’s full range of sustainable lighting solutions, like the new GE Infusion® LED module, Find out how GE Lighting products can help you maximize LEED® project points
Hubbell Canada LP | GreenWise™ is our sustainability initiative to show you how reducing lighting energy, without sacrificing illumination, can be affordably achieved with leading edge, sustainable lighting solutions.
Illumineer Ltd | Illumineer specializes in Custom LED lighting solutions, and is a proud winner of the “Next Icon LED Challenge”. We work diligently with our clients to design, manufacture, and certify their lighting needs.
Ledalite Architectural Products Inc.
Leviton | Offers LEED contributing products: Daylighting Controls automatically adjust lighting to take advantage of ambient light conditions. Energy Performance Control integrated energy management lighting control system, ambient light adjustment, wireless control and Motion Sensor Switches with passive infrared technology.
Osram Sylvania Ltd.
Philips Color Kinetics
Philips Lighting | Philips leads the lighting industry with a long history of unique first-to-market, efficient lighting solutions, such as our award-winning LED portfolio, and the industry’s lowest mercury content T8 lamps.
Prescolite, Inc.
Ruud Lighting Canada/BetaLED
Sistemalux
Solera Corp.
Standard Lighting
Tech Lighting
Texmar Control Systems

EA c-9 | Appliances

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EA c-10 | Renewable Energy

ARC solar
BC Hydro
Bosch Water Heating
BP Solar
Buderus
Bullfrog Power Inc. | Bullfrog Power, Canada’s 100 % green energy provider, provides renewable energy solutions that enable homes and businesses to reduce their environmental impact and help create a cleaner, healthier world.
Chateau Solar Heating
Cleanfield Energy Corp.
Cleanline Technologies
CeeLite
Day 4 Energy Inc.
Distribution Jean-Pierre Paquette
DuPont | DuPont provides environmentally sustainable building solutions for commercial and residential construction. DuPont products and systems work together to create healthier safer, more energy-efficient buildings and homes. To see a copy of our “Sustainable Building” brochure go to our website.
Energy Wind Systems Inc.
Enviroharvest Inc.
GE Industrial
Generation PV
GeoSmart Energy Inc.
Global Solar Energy Inc.
HelioVolt Corporation
Honeywell-windtronics Inc.
ICP Solar Technologies Inc.
Integrated Lighting Systems
Menova Energy Inc.
Metal Span
Morgan Solar Inc.
Nova Sun Power
Nysan Solar Control
Novatech Energie
Open Energy Corporation
PowerWISE
Pulse Energy
Roth Canada
Schréder Inc.
Solar Converters inc.
SolarIntegrated
Solarnetix Inc.
Solar Converters inc.
Solar Heating Canada
SolarIntegrated
Solar-Max Heating Systems Inc.
Solarnetix Inc.
Solar Roofing Systems Inc.
Solar Solutions
Sun Ross Energy Systems Limited
Surrette Battery company Ltd.
Sustainable Energy Technologies Ltd.
Stiebel Eltron Inc.
TerraTek Environmental Solutions
Thermo Dynamics Ltd.
Toshiba
Triacta
Xantrex Technology Inc.
Your Solar Home Inc.
ZinCo Canada

EA c-11 | Residential Refrigerant Management

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