David Silburn is on the ground floor of the trend toward green construction among home builders and what he's doing on campus at SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary has significant implications for trade workers across Canada.
He's designing, fabricating and constructing 'net zero' houses -- homes that produce as much energy as they consume -- by working with Avalon Master Builder, a company that plans to provide new net zero houses to its customers at no extra cost by 2015.
'There are certainly new skills being required by the trades,' says Silburn, who's overseeing the initiative on campus as a research associate in SAIT's Green Building Technologies Applied Research program."
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