Net positive
It’s the home of the future. It’s so energy-efficient and affectively outfitted with solar panels that it will generate all the power it needs for heating and cooling and electricity and have enough left over to charge an electric car and sell some excess into the electric grid.
In addition, its cantilevered design on a slope overlooking Okanagan Lake makes is esthetically stunning.
This home was designed and is being built by Nido Design in Lake Country as the ultimate in environmental friendliness.
“The building sector is a dinosaur stick in the ‘70s and is ripe for innovation,” sayd Nido founder Brett Sichello.
“Our proven approach has an immediate impact on how people live today. Nido is Latin for home or nest, and our mission is to demonstrate a home can be a positive contributor to its natural environment by having a light footprint on the land it inhabits.”
The name of the firm was recently changed from Brett Sichello Design to Nido as part of a rebranding to move into net-zero and net-positive design and construction.
Nido worked with Accelerate Okanagan over the past six months to incorporate new technology into its business plan.
Nido will spotlight its work and the Lake Country home at a reception Sept. 20 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Okanagan Centre for Innovation in Kelowna.
Register at Tiny.cc/Nido. released nine indicators for the second quarter of the year that show a community on an incredible uptick.
Between 2011 and 2016 the area’s population swelled 8.4 per cent to 194,882.
The labour force is 5.5 per cent bigger than it was a year ago with 97,216 people employed.
Housing starts are up a staggering 87 year-over-year with 1,855 starts in the first half of the year.
The value of buildings permitted to start construction is up 40 per cent so far this year at $528 million.
There are 15.4 per cent more licensed businesses in the Central Okanagan with the total mid-year at 13,579.
In the first six months of the year, the number of passengers flying in and out of Kelowna airport hit 930,949, a 13 per cent