Assessment of sustainable and cultural housing design in the Clayoquot Sound First Nations

The Planning Framework is intended to be the foundation for future work as part of the on-going 16-month project undertaken by the aforementioned stakeholders, with the intended goals of 1) ensuring that engagement is rich and productive in determining the needs of community, 2) informing Nation members on the value of ‘green’ building design, 3) harnessing the training and employment opportunitie [...] The purpose of this project is to leverage existing knowledge of green building design features to better inform the evolution of First Nation developments in the Nuu-chah-nulth region, paying particular attention to the lessons learned during the early stages of the Tla-o-qui-aht community housing project of Ty-Histanis in order to harness its successes and to avoid replication of those efforts. [...] This is followed by the identification of culturally relevant community and housing design aspects as identified by two Nations from the Nuu-chah-nulth Region of Vancouver Island.17 To conclude the document, the Framework is introduced as a tool for informing the decision- making process involved in new community and home development in a way that ties the cultural needs of a Nation to the opportu [...] The greater the integrity of the building envelope, the less reliant the homeowner has to be on technology to heat or cool the house. [...] In leveraging the sheer size of the development, the per unit cost of specific features was reduced, dropping the overall capital cost necessary to build each home.31 Given the amount of funding currently available to First Nation communities in response to their housing crisis, the value of exploring these volume discounts would appear to be high.