We’re working on a wonderful group of custom home builds close to our Ottawa, Canada base. We also ship our energy efficient house plans and our passivehouse and engineer approved weathertight material kits across North America. We’ve shipped to many locations in the United States, including Maine, New York, Georgia, Minnesota, and Utah.
A sampling of projects
- Smart Living: Passive House Over a GarageSecondary dwellings have focused on the intelligence of living space over a garage. This primary residence makes the most of this concept.
- One Exceptional Passive House Plan Four WaysThe Hummingbird is hugely popular and we have new renders for four different versions, including interiors.
- Passive House Suppliers in the US + CanadaWe’re preparing some project updates to share, and first want to give you a feel for where we’re sending our passive house kit these days.
- Passive House Addition for a Tiny Post War HomePost World War II homes of the 1950s and early 60s were tiny. For some, the challenge is finding more space while remaining in place.
- A Fresh Look at Our Net Zero Model HomeWe’ve gone for a light touch in our newly decorated net zero model home in Ottawa’s rural West End.
- New Shared Living House PlansMore and more we’re being asked about communal living and shared living house plans. We’ve got two new ones to share!
- Calabogie, ON Lot for Sale with Your EkoBuilt HomeImagine the perfect passive home in a forest setting. If you are keen on Calabogie, Ontario, read on!
- The Fresh Air Feel of a Passive HouseLate in 2021 we visited a build with one of our passive house kits near Victoria Harbour, Ontario.
- Tearing Down, Rebuilding PassiveWhether you decide to retrofit or rebuild your home is a highly personal decision. Here are two projects where the homeowners chose to rebuild passive.
- Smart Passive House Plan: The HummingbirdOne of our most popular house plans, we’ve featured The Hummingbird before.
- Virtual Tour of our model passive homeIf you missed our open house in Ottawa, we have a virtual tour option you can try out now.
- The Madawaska: Net Zero Family HomeOne of our larger house plans, The Madawaska, is a great family home. This one is Net Zero and yours could be too.
- New passive house design in the Chelsea HighlandsWe’re adding another house plan, The Fern! Check out a finished home using this plan.
- EkoBuilt Open House on June 11thEkoBuilt’s passive houses feature extremely low energy use, roughly 10% of a home built to code in the last few years. Here’s your chance to see what that looks like.
- A Semi-Detached Passive House PlanThis one may be of particular interest to our urban followers! We have a semi-detached project underway and have added the floorplan to our portfolio.
- Client defined design near North BayIn 2021 we supplied our weathertight material package to a couple wishing to build a small passive home near North Bay, Ontario.
- Video walkthrough of an EkoBuilt homeThis EkoBuilt home is just a smidge over 1,200 sq ft, but is full of smart spaces.
- Ottawa coach homes as income propertiesWe recently completed a build of two coach homes in the long established Glebe neighbourhood just south of Ottawa’s downtown core. We have a video walkthrough to share!
- Interior Photos for Hummingbird ModelThe Hummingbird passive house plan is a stunner – check out these interior shots!
- Video of Our New Model Home BuildIf you’re not on Facebook, you might have missed a neat little video overview of this year’s build of the new EkoBuilt model passive home.
- Custom 2-Storey Passive HomeIn 2020 we sold our first model home, the hugely popular Trillium model that we had built west of Ottawa as a showcase for our passive house offering.
- Another house plan, three different ways: The FiddleheadFour versions of our popular two-storey Fiddlehead house plan!
- New custom home in Wakefield, QuebecThe cost effective house design for this home began with a plan to fit three bedrooms into a modest but comfortable 1,200 ft.² bungalow.
- EkoBuilt Project: Prince Edward County Coach HouseThis cottage is based on an EkoBuilt coach house plan and has a clever sleeping loft.
- EkoBuilt Project: Pakenham Coach HouseThis coach home is being used as a seasonal cottage today and will be a retirement residence within the decade.
- EkoBuilt Project: Passive Home in Rural West OttawaThis is a wonderful example of a passive home designed to fit its owners.
- EkoBuilt Project: Urban home in central OttawaThis 2,500 sq ft home on a narrow urban lot is smart and very efficient.
- EkoBuilt custom home in Sydenham, OntarioThis custom home with a more traditional roofline is a great example of our versatility.
- New house build in KazabazuaOne of our current building projects is an implementation of the Primrose house plan with some additions.