Ottawa Salus, city’s new affordable housing complex, boasts top efficiency rating
May 3, 2017 at 10:17 am Leave a comment
How would you like to pay $28 to heat your apartment – for the entire year?
That’s exactly what Ottawa Salus hopes to offer when it opens its new 42-unit affordable housing building this week.
The four-storey supportive housing complex on Clementine Boulevard near Billings Bridge will serve adults with severe mental illness, but it’s also designed to support ambitious environmental and cost-saving goals through a passive house design never before used for affordable housing apartments in North America, according to executive director Lisa Ker.
Using things like thick insulation, tightly sealed doors and windows and a special energy recovery ventilator that circulates fresh air into the building, the apartments will likely be up to 90 per cent more efficient than regular buildings.
Read Ottawa Salus, city’s new affordable housing complex, boasts top efficiency rating at MetroNews.ca.
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