TORONTO — Ground has just been broken on the last of a series of projects being built across the country to demonstrate that commercial home builders can build net-zero energy homes.
Net zero energy (NZE) buildings are among the most extreme “green” designs since they produce as much energy as they consume. They’re essentially self-sufficient in terms of energy. However, while individual NZE buildings have been realized as special one-off projects, a new NRCan-sponsored project is designed to show how they can be built on a much larger scale by commercial home builders.

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