Features

The Camp Kawartha Environment Centre will include innovative features such as:

→  Geothermal heating and cooling
→ Radiant floors
→ Living roof seeded with local plants
→ Solar hot water
→ Grid-tied solar panel PV power
→ Net-zero energy design supplying evenly back to the grid at peak demand hours
→ Pre-fabricated and built-on-site straw bale walls
→ Rain water collection to supply all building water use
→ Indoor constructed wetland water purification system
→ Passive solar design
→ Super insulative straw bale, hempcrete and rammed earth construction
→ Only thatch roof in Ontario, locally harvested grasses
→ Cordwood benches