Regenerative Design for a Living World
SERVICES
SHED specializes in leading integrated design processes in the development of high-performance residential, commercial, and community spaces. We understand that building is inherently disruptive to natural ecosystems, through on-site interventions, as well as extended material and waste flows. The urgency to act on sustainable development and climate change mitigation is central to our design approach, and we are committed to applying regenerative design solutions within the regions in which we operate.
PROJECTS
SHED stands for the design principles reflected in our work, strategic, healthy, ecological. Our repertoire of projects has been developed with care, through close collaborations with clients and communities, considering how they can organize their housing needs to support all stages of living, working, retiring, and giving back to society.
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COLLABORATE
When working with SHED, clients are engaged in a collaborative and creative process of learning and problem solving. This involves brainstorming the best and most affordable alternatives by which to apply regenerative design principles within their homes and communities. Clients appreciate our boots on the ground approach combined with our transparent budget management, whereby we outline all anticipated expenses at the outset of a project, and maintain an open-book policy, throughout.
Since 2008, SHED (Strategic, Healthy, Ecological Design) has been working closely with families, businesses, and communities, to field test the most cutting-edge solutions for transition within the built environment. Our services bring together researchers, designers, systems engineers, licensed trades, project managers, and local craftspeople to gather information, plan scenarios, create restorative designs and develop transparent budgets.
Our team works directly with communities to develop comprehensive community plans, not-for-profits to facilitate housing strategies, oversees integrated project delivery for developers, designs custom homes for families, consults for architects, and represents multiple high-performance building material and products suppliers in Northern Ontario.
Our integrated process guides our work from concept to completion, ensuring all work is grounded in an accurate assessment of site-specific needs, building feasibility, and quadruple bottom line accounting for people, planet, profit and purpose.
SHED is a licensed vendor - builder with the HRCA in Ontario, a professional member of the Living Futures Institute, Passive Buildings Canada and the Ontario Natural Building Coalition.
SHED is located in Thunder Bay Ontario, on the north shore of Lake Superior. Thunder Bay is situated on the traditional territory of the Ojibwe people of Fort William First Nation, signatory to the Robinson Superior Treaty of 1850. We acknowledge the rights and traditions of the First Nations, Metis, and Inuit who reside in this territory and across Canada.
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