THOUGHTS ON REAL ESTATE Sunday, March 20, 2011 Starting at the topCategories:,Brighouse South,Buyers,buying and selling,getting your home ready to sell,Granville,Green,Ladner Real Estate,market trends,mortgages,planning,properties,Real Estate,realtors,Richmond,Richmond Real Estate,roofing,selling,Selling your home,Showing your home,Tsawwassen
GOING GREENWhen I think about "going green" my first thoughts always turn to green roofing. Partly because my husband owns a high end roofing company here in the Vancouver Lower Mainland, partly because I have been certified to install modular living green roofs through N.A.T.S and partly because as a realtor it's important to understand the changing direction in the building and design of homes and communities and the overall impact on the global environment. As an integral part of any building, whether residential or commericial, the roof plays a key piece in providing protection, comfort and aesthetics. And there are many new options for green roofs including blanket growing medium and local sedum, modular growing medium with local sedum, mixed options with solar panels or at least, roofing that is more environmental friendly in reducing heating and cooling costs, ability to be recycled or created using recycled materials such as sheet metal.
As a Vancouverite, I'm also pleased that our city is at the leading edge of creating and using living green roofs. Think of the Vancouver Public Library, the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre and the award winning LEEDS compliant Olympic Athletes Village. In some parts of the world, for example Switzerland and Austria, living green roofs are now mandatory by law on all buildings of flat or low slope pitch. Categories: | agent | agents | babies | birdlife | blanket drive | Breast Cancer | Brighouse South | buyer | Buyers | buying | buying and selling | caring | cats and dogs | cleaning | community | condo | condos | contracts | court ordered sales | covenants | curb appeal | deas island park | deas island tunnel | decisions | Delta | design | developers | dining out | disappointment | dog park | Eagles | eating | eating out | family | financing | fish and chips | fishing | food | foreclosures | fraser river | getting your home ready to sell | Granville | Green | gutters | halibut | head lease | headlease | Health | hiking | history | home | home buying | home decor | home inspection | home maintenance | homes | house | Jan Rankin | Ladner | Ladner Real Estate | landholders | landlords | leasehold | listing | lynn valley | marinas | market trends | marketing | McNair | mortgage | mortgages | multiple offers | neighbourhood | neighbourhoods | neighbours | nesting | new build | north shore | offers | opinions | pests | planning | possession | preapprovals | presentation | properties | property | Public Service | Real Estate | realtor | realtors | repairs | restaurants | Richmond | Richmond Real Estate | rodents | roofing | seller | sellers | selling | Selling your home | sharing | Showing your home | showings | single family homes | sponsorship | sports | staging | Steveston | Steveston Villlage | strata | subjects | sunset | tenants | Terra Nova | the boot and sombrero | townhomes | trails | Tsawwassen | vancouver | viewings. open house | village | walking | warranty | water | weather | west vancouver | Wildlife | yards |
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604.329.0830
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Sutton Group - Seafair Realty
#550 - 9100 Blundell Road
Richmond, BC
V6Y 1K3 CA
Email: jrankin@sutton.com
Phone: 604.329.0830
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Prior to my career as a real estate consultant, I worked in fashion, tourism & hospitality and most recently after receiving my BSW from the University of BC, I spent more than a decade as a social worker working with families.
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