Recollective is proud to have sponsored and sent a few of its Reconauts to the NAPHN15 Conference held in Vancouver over the past week. Eesmyal, David, Jason, Chris and Jay went to join hundreds of other delegates from all over the world at the CanPHI (Canadian Passive House Institute) Conference in Vancouver on October 1st and 2nd.

Throughout the two day conference, they were able to learn, exchange ideas and get to know the North American Passive House community. As a result of this conference, two of our Reconauts are taking the PHPPv9 training.

Recollective is working hard to become one of the first consulting companies in Vancouver to offer a holistic package of services that will include LEED, Living Building Challenge and Passive House.

See you Passive House folks next year’s NAPHN16 conference in New York City!!!

Our very own Director of Green Building Services, Jason Packer, will join our client Rob St-Onge, Energy Manager of Okanagan College, for a panel presentation on “Lessons Learned at the Jim Pattison Centre of Excellence” at the upcoming Colleges and Institutes of Canada 2015 Energy Symposium, November 5-7 in Medicine Hat, Alberta.

If anyone would like to meet with Jason while he’s in Medicine Hat during the conference to discuss Living Building Challenge strategies on their project, or general green building opportunities, he’d love to connect.  Jason can be reached at “jason [at ] recollective [dot] ca”.

Woot woot!  Our 2nd certification as a B Corp!  Now at 122 points as of Oct 2015.

Recollective came back from our Annual Retreat at Xenia on Bowen Island. This weekend is always a fantastic time of strategizing, planning and having fun! Thank you to Marina of Xenia for your hospitality and making us feel at home, and of course to our weekend facilitator and business coach, Ben Kadel of Emotus Operandi for all the inspiration, encouragement and tools throughout the weekend.

Some of the highlights of the retreat, as described by our staff were the opportunity to jump out of our daily routine work, rethink personal strengths, reconnect with each other and link the personal career to the company goals. We slept in yurts, played board games and even did some yoga together. The feeling was reinforced that we have such a strong team of great people with diverse skills and experience and a universal focus on really making a difference and moving the building industry towards our ultimate goal of a regenerative built environment. We feel more united and more excited for the year ahead.

Congratulations to Binghang Li for becoming BC Hydro’s newest approved Energy Modeller!  BC Hydro’s rigorous New Construction Program requires approved energy modellers to lead the application and energy modelling process that enables clients to save energy and take advantage of substantial financial incentives.  If you are interested in finding out if your new building is eligible for these incentives, please contact us at energy [at] recollective [dot] ca.

We are so pleased to welcome David Garcia, originally of Grenada in Spain, to our Energy Modelling team as a Junior Building Energy Analyst!

David has a background in Chemical Engineering and has expertise in business management, energy simulation applied to building design, the Passive House standard and building facilities. He worked on a number of prize-winning projects throughout Europe under his own company for the last few years.

We are excited to Welcome David to Vancouver and to Recollective and we are so looking forward to bringing David’s valuable international experience in energy simulation and conservation to our team!