Ted and Carolen’s Home – ourhomes Magazine Feature
We are absolutely thrilled to share that one of our projects has been featured in the Holiday/Winter 2024/2025 edition of OurHomes Magazine! This stunning home belongs to Ted and Carolen, who were an absolute delight to work with. Their beautiful residence is situated on the serene shores of Lake Couchiching and perfectly blends elements of the past with their vision of a forever home. We couldn't be happier for Ted and Carolen, and we are excited for the many years and cherished memories they will create in their new home. It has been an honor to be a part of their journey, and we are proud to see their home recognized in such a prestigious publication. Click on the link below to read the full article and see the feature: OurHomes Magazine - Holiday/Winter 2024/2025...Read More
Mundy’s Bay Public School Featured in SAB Magazine
Mundy’s Bay Public School was recently featured in SAB Magazine as part of a Concrete Council of Canada supplement. Designed by Ted Handy and Associates, Mundy’s Bay was named the most energy efficient school in North America in an assessment of over 500 schools. Click here to read more about how the use of concrete results in energy consumption well below the industry...Read More
Mundy’s Bay Secures Top Spot in Study of Energy Performance
We’re pleased to announce that Mundy’s Bay Public School, designed by Ted Handy & Associates, has been named the most energy efficient school in North America in an assessment of the energy performance of over 500 schools. The assessment was done by Sustainable Schools, whose mission is to provide benchmarking, performance monitoring and best practices training to assist school boards in setting and keeping energy conservation goals. Mundy’s Bay, which opened in Midland in 2008, has a total energy consumption of $0.53 per square foot or 32 KBTU per square foot/year. It achieved LEED Gold certification in 2009 and was one of the first sustainable education projects in Canada. Some of the energy-efficient aspects of this project are as follows: Solar orientation and wind patterns were reviewed and the academic wing of the school was rotated to take maximum advantage of natural ventilation and the midday sun, which is easiest to control. Detailed...Read More
The staff at Ted Handy and Associates Inc., Architect recently completed Advanced Revit Training with provider Redcage Solutions. Our goal was to expand and refine our current Building Information Modeling (BIM) process. Please visit link below to watch a video testimonial of the benefits we received by participating in the Redcage Revit training. STAFF TESTIMONIALS “The benefit of training with Redcage was seeing the many potential areas of Revit that we could be using demonstrated to show the speed of which projects could be conceptualized and designed.” “Issues we were having were reviewed and solutions or processes were quickly demonstrated by Redcage.”~Eric May, Senior Technologist “Revit training allowed us to identify and eliminate inefficiencies with our use of Revit that we were otherwise completing in different, longer, inconsistent, and unorganised ways. Specific benefits of the training included developing shorter work paths within Revit, developing a project template, view templates, a detail library, and learning...Read More
One of our historical site projects has been featured in the Vol. 18 - No. 27 issue of Novae Res Urbis, as the City of Barrie prepares "to restore a historic landmark and create a new community space". It is expected that the "'Allandale train station revitalization will be the genesis of revitalization in the Allandale area.'" Click here to read...Read More