Effect Home Builders

EFFECT HOME BUI LDERS Institute, and the Alberta Emerald Foundation. The company’s list of awards and accolades is lengthy, starting fromtheir first victory in 2008 and continuing to this day. In 2021, they have already been named a ‘Top Choice Home Builder in Edmonton’ by the Top Choice Awards, and they were a finalist in two categories at the CHBA Edmonton Awards. Last year, in 2020, the company was even more lauded. In addition to accolades from Houzz, the Top Choice Awards, and BestInEdmonton.com, Effect Home builders won an ‘Energy Efficiency Award’ from BILD Alberta, and ‘Best Infill over 400 square feet’ from CHBA Edmonton. Thelatterawardwasforaproject called the ‘Garneau Home,’ which Les says is notable for its list of “daring design features you won’t find anywhere else.” That list includes a suspended glass bridge, a vertical garden for growing fresh herbs year ‘round, a high-performance multi-layered wall system, and an underground corridor connecting the garage to the house. “It was such a fun project,” Les says. “There were some challenging tasks put forward on that project, some things we’d never done before, but we were able to be quite creative and come up with solutions.” The underground corridor is a great demonstration of that problem-solving capacity. The client had asked their garage be attached so they wouldn’t have to walk outside, but city bylaws did not allow for that. The team came up with the idea to build an underground corridor. To ensure the homeowner would be dry and