The Green Building Professionals

As a long time green builder, LEED for Homes Accredited Professionaland a Green Home Rater, Mike has decades of experience in green building, project management, consulting, mentoring and training construction professionals.

Mike has the experience that counts...

Project Manager

Mike was the project manager for Canada’s first LEED V4 Platinum certified home built by Ecohome, the Edelweiss, which was called a “phenomenal achievement” by Thomas Mueller, President of the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC). He's since managed many more demonstration projects to prove that building sustainable and healthy homes doesn't have to cost more!

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Housing Mentor

Mike works as a housing mentor in the Indigenous Clean Energy (ICE) Network, helping First Nations communities find the best way to upgrade existing homes, and to adopt sustainable and resilient practices for new construction. "I find it inspiring and rewarding to work with young and upcoming community leaders who want to help their communities by building and renovating homes to high energy efficiency standards."

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Green Building Instructor

Mike also works as a guest instructor in regional architectural design and construction schools to help upgrade curriculums and give workshops on sustainable design to both teachers and students. He's also done countless videos on the ins and outs of green building best practices as co-founder of The Ecohome Network - the world's largest green building network.

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"I don't like to brag, but..."

Western quebec school board WQSB

Students and staff found the presentation interesting, informative, and enlightening. Our carpentry students now have a better understanding of eco home building principles and will be able to incorporate these techniques into their projects.

Judging by the way our students responded to Mike’s presentation, he definitely got them thinking seriously about building healthy, energy efficient and environmentally-friendly houses. Presentations like Mike’s should be a required component of every carpentry course.

Rick Johnston
Coordinator/Teacher, Carpentry Program
WQSB, Maniwaki, Quebec

New Frontier School Board NFSB

Ecohome facilitated a student-built modular LEED home that was donated to Habitat for Humanity. The project is called 'Our House' and helped NFSB position themselves as the green building school of Quebec.

Graduating students participated in the building of a custom-designed, high performance multi-family home with its sights on the highest LEED rating possible, that would provide homes for two families in need.
The Ecohome expertise has helped tremendously with our “Our House” project. The cutting edge building techniques that Mike has passed along to our staff, students and community is improving our knowledge base in order to keep up with the latest in eco-trends construction.

Chuck Halliday
NFSB Development Agent
Ormstown, Quebec

Vanier College Technical program

I brought my building envelope students to Mike’s workshop on passive heating and cooling, and I could tell by the discussion that ensued how engaged the students were.

Mike reinforced many core principles I try to instill in my students, that simple is better than complicated, and that we need to break away from what we *think* we know about building performance and take advantage of lessons learned from the successes and failures of what has been built in the past. It was great content and I hope to do it again with future classes.

Jeff Johnston, Arch. Tech., B. Arch.
Faculty of Careers and Technical Programs, Architectural Technology,
Vanier College
Montreal, Quebec