The Construction Source

DECEMBER 2020 He says their contribution was important and that the team at Blue Water learned a lot. Having gone through that process with MIZU, he believes the company is ready to take on any Passive House project that comes their way. Moving forward, he emphasises that’s BlueWater’smain interest – they want to build extremely efficient homes, ideally Passive- certified homes, or at least homes built to the BC Energy Step Code level 5. The company also wants to keep doing major renovations, Mike adds, as there will be plenty of local opportunity in that sector. “Squamish has a lot of old houses aging out of their lifespan, and there’s a younger demographic moving up from the city and buying up these places,” he explains. “So there are a lot of renovations that are being done – and we enjoy doing them, they’re like a puzzle, they are fun to work out. I grew up doing them and my team is really good at them.” As far as growth is concerned, Mike believes that Blue Water is about as big as the Squamish market can handle, but that there’s potentially opportunity to branch out to Whistler and West Vancouver. He says that the company is interested in pursuing those opportunities, but that growth is not the priority. “We don’t want to be doing hundreds of projects a year,” he says. “We want to be doing projects where the client puts an emphasis on efficiency and quality, and they want a builder who can build those homes properly.”