Recollective Participates in EarthWork Day

EarthWork Day is about organizations celebrating Earth Day by walking the talk. SES Consulting, Recollective, Pulse Energy and HiVE are playing around with a cool new way to celebrate Earth Day this year. We are going to pay our employees to have some fun making a difference in a creative way. We start at 9 [...]

Photos from the Party!

Waterless Urinal Takes Self-Cleaning to a New Level

American Standard has just announced a new line of waterless urinals that clean the user after they have relieved themselves. State-of-the-art scrubbers get to work quickly and effectively to leave each person in a cleaner condition than when they arrived in the restroom. Product specs to be released in the next quarter.

Brenda Martens Retires from Recollective

After a recent 6 month sabbatical, Brenda Martens, co-founder and Principal of Recollective, will be retiring from the company to pursue a path of education and advocacy. In 2006, Brenda co-founded Recollective with the shared aim to create an innovative green building company that does business differently – one with little hierarchy, one that collaborates [...]

Welcome to our Winter 2012 Interns

We are happy to announce three amazing Interns for the Winter term (January 25th through April 25th): Peter Cox: Currently pursuing a BCIT advanced certificate in Sustainable Business Leadership; previous studies included Graduate Studies in Housing Futures (University College of London, England), Master of Environmental and Energy Management (University of Twente in the Netherlands), BA [...]

Melissa Estable joins Recollective!

We’re proud to announce that Melissa Estable has joined Recollective in the role of Sustainability Consultant! With a Bachelor of Architectural Studies tucked under one arm, Melissa started her career by working for design-build firm Fresh Fruit & Architecture in Montreal. Sustainability was at the core of the company philosophy and projects incorporated re-purposing of [...]

Sunset Party: June 10, 2011

To mark the transition of Recollective to the HiVE, we will be hosting one last party at our previous location. Join us this Friday for beverages and light refreshments at our Pender Street location from 5pm to 10pm. At 10pm, we will head to the HiVE.  We’ll also be projecting the hockey game! Time: 6pm [...]

We’re looking for volunteer interns!

Looking for volunteer green building interns at Recollective! Learn from the pros, get exposed to over 100 different projects, gain experience in green building & LEED needed to pass LEED AP exam, become a superhuman. Apply for our Spring 2012 internship today!

Arvin Wang joins Recollective!

We’re happy to announce that Arvin Wang has recently joined Recollective’s Energy Services team as Energy Simulation Specialist. Arvin has worked in the high performance building industry  for over three years, with experience in energy modeling and HVAC systems design.  Specializing in energy conservation strategies and other sustainable strategies for LEED energy compliance, Arvin uses advanced [...]

Recollective joins HiVE!

On behalf of HiVE Vancouver Society, Recollective signed a lease for 9,000 SF of funky heritage space at 128 West Hastings.  Along with 33 other progressive HiVE members, Recollective will be moving into this space May 1, 2011.  HiVE is a sustainability and creativity coworking space.  For more info, visit: www.hivevancouver.com

Building Green with LEED: Core Concepts and Strategies

Brenda and Eesmyal are teaching a new 36-hr course at UBC on green building called ‘Core Concepts and Strategies’.  It starts Jan 27, 2011. More info: http://www.cstudies.ubc.ca/sustainability/

Brenda & Eesmyal make the news for Green Building Brain

Recollective Principals Brenda Martens and Eesmyal Santos-Brault, along with their colleagues from the Open Green Building Society, Kalin Harvey and Alex Grunenfelder, were interviewed by the Georgia Straight about the Green Building Brain project. The open-source, user-generated compendium boasts over a thousand examples of environmentally sensitive design and construction… Read the full article here: http://www.straight.com/article-341760/vancouver/green-building-brain-thrives-shared-data

Patkau Architects + Recollective = FallingWater!

Recollective teamed up with Patkau Architects to win Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater cottage International Design competition! Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic Fallingwater is now an institute, and needed lodging for participants in its educational programs. They recently held a design competition to build six uber-sustainable units that was won by British Columbia’s Patkau Architects. Lynda Waggoner, [...]

South East False Creek Certification

Recollective is pleased to announce that all new residential buildings at Vancouver’s South East False Creek Olympic Village at Millennium Water have achieved LEED Gold certification, with the Net Zero Building and the Community Centre attaining LEED Platinum! This is our largest project to date and the largest development project to be certified in Canada [...]

New Faces

Recollective welcomes Erica Letchford, Taryn Swaitek, Kari Dow, and Maura Chestnutt ERICA LETCHFORD Erica’s work experience encompasses both design and construction, in both the commercial and residential realms. With a degree in Interior Design, Erica became a LEED AP while still in school.  Erica has a particular interest in residential design and construction, and was [...]

Eesmyal Presents to 2,000+ at Pecha Kucha Vancouver

Eesmyal gave a rousing presentation on June 23, 2010 to over 2,000 people at Pecha Kucha Vancouver‘s special edition event called ‘Walk the Talk, Green Your City’.   He spoke about his various green building and collaborative projects, such as the Green Building Brain, the Vancouver Design Nerds, and the collaborative workspace project called The Hive. [...]