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    A Healthy Renovation & Ecological Addition

    We renovated this conventionally-built home to give it a sleek, modern elegance using strictly natural, non-offgassing materials.
  • Timber framed house

    Soaring Timber Frame House

    When we reminisce about our past work, this timber frame house in the Horseshoe Valley makes us smile more than most.
  • Energy Efficient Passive Solar Living

    Passive Solar Living

    The best laid plans… What started out as a prospective addition to an existing house, two years later became family move to a new passive solar home.
  • Guelph ecological retail renovation

    Get Juiced: a Retail Reno

    Local vegetables, in-season ingredients, Spinach-Celery-Melon Juice…what could be more green?
  • Home sweet home environmental building and design competition

    A Home as Nature Intended

    Winner: Home Sweet Home Environmental Building and Design Competition 2010 A Home as Nature Intended From early design considerations of habitat preservation and geopathic energy…

Our Services

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Green Building

Evolve Builders Group is Southwestern Ontario's most experienced green builder. We pioneered the building of everything from ultra-modern, permit-ready straw-bale houses to fully autonomous, high-tech off-grid homes. Each of our dedicated employees have specialties ranging from the technical to the artisinal.

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Eco-Renovations

Let Evolve's ecological carpenters turn your home into a zen world of healthy kitchens, restful bedrooms & beautiful baths. We've won awards for performing renovations that are visual masterpieces on top of being healthy & eco-friendly. We also do green commercial conversions, creating productive offices & stimulating storefronts.

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Home Performance & Energy Retrofits

Evolve takes a holistic approach to home performance. First we examine your entire house as a system, then we use advanced building science to determine how to solve energy-efficiency and comfort issues at their source. From draft-proofing to energy-efficient window replacement, our technicians can turn almost any building into a green building.

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Green Design & Consultation

Simply talking to Evolve Builders Group can make your project a success! As an established and respected green design-builder, our designers draw & interpret plans, evaluate construction details, interpret the building code, recommend greener alternatives, assess subcontractor bids and more! Call us today to find out how we can help you!

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Healthy Building Materials

We have healthy relationships with some of Southern Ontario's most exciting ecological artisans and craftspeople, and with venders of difficult-to-source green products such as natural oils and waxes, eco-friendly bamboo flooring & healthy clay or silica paints. We can drop-ship directly to you, or we also do installed sales!

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Contact Us

Working from bases in Guelph, Harriston and Bracebridge, we service the cities of Guelph, Kitchener, Waterloo & Cambridge, as well as Wellington, Huron, Grey-Bruce, Caledon, Georgian Bay, Simcoe and Muskoka Counties. For interesting projects we also travel to Woodstock, London-Essex, Niagara Region and Peel north of the GTA.