Not other than a structural engineer for the foundation.
There are no specific requirements for contractors, but the bank providing the mortgage will likely have some stipulations around bonding and insurance.
Of course you can have an architect design the house, but the designer doesn’t need to be an architect.
Do you have any specific examples?
From working in both municipal infrastructure and residential building science, I’ve found residential design and construction is really the wild west. There is a lack of simple building science knowledge, and there are even examples in code that go against best practice (like polyethylene vapor barrier on the interior of basement walls).
I’d prefer to see money go towards education of the industry so that comfortable, durable, resilient, and efficient homes are what is being built.
BC has figured it out, and a well built home with energy performance 70% better than code baseline can be only 10% more cost. An amount quickly recovered in energy savings.
To be fair, the market is roughly at where it was in September (pending further tanking). So, not a huge difference…yet.
I very much enjoy my Ioniq 5 over any Tesla I’ve driven.
EVs have lower lifetime CO2e emissions, even when the grid is quite carbon intensive. I agree that walkable development and widely available transit alternatives would be better, but EVs are a step in the right direction. Transforming car-dependent cities is not going to happen overnight.
Yep, I’d agree with that. I know engineering licensing is governed by each province with Engineers Canada enabling some parity in standards across the country to improve mobility.
These provincial licensing/priviledging difficulties indicate provinces still have a significant say in who can practice in their province. I would guess the national standards are more around education.
It’s not dissimilar for engineers either.
Either way, a national board to administer a national Act would be necessary, which would need to develop the national licencing requirements. Unfortunately, there’s not many doctors with extra time on their hands to aid with this task.
Steam Link works well if they’re still around.
It’s the same thing with your personal finances. All the financial salespeople advisors will tell you to buy actively managed funds because they get paid more can beat the market.
I fired my first advisor after learning about passive investing and she literally said, “you can’t beat the market if you are the market.” I resisted the urge to request a guarantee that that would happen, but I did track the difference between my actual investments and if I stayed with an actively managed fund with similar holdings. Unsurprisingly, I’m tens of thousands richer today than I would’ve been.
If the market is up or down, fund managers are still going to take their 2.whatever% cut. I much prefer the 0.2% I pay.
I’ve got a Home Outfitters one still…
Anyone could do a cursory search and find that the fuel charge rate is currently $0.1761/L for gasoline. They could also see, with this same search, what the price was, is supposed to be, should be, and might be.
Very clever use of a cymbal stand.
I’ve heard of folding@home but haven’t really looked much into it.
Prohibiting surveillance and stopping manipulation of a population are not the same thing.
I can’t imagine it will be free and actually useable in any form.
Free*
*except you can only play one game in 24 hrs. *you can only play with four people *there is only a small set of prompts available
While it’s a Firefox fork, Ironfox works great for me.
A brain gain, perhaps?
Yet, that’s exactly what happens sometimes. Big developers are professionals at putting in the minimum passable workmanship while putting enough lipstick on to sell it at a high price. The only inspections that take place are for code compliance for particular items, but they don’t inspect much of anything outside of that.