Imber Akse House - Burlington's LEED home » Site Maintenance http://imberaksehouse.ca Imber Akse House is the realization of our dream home. A burlington LEED home that looks at living, sustainability and urbanism in a holistic perspective. We've designed this site to engage as many people in the process of designing and building our sustainable home as possible — so that we might encourage others to take the same steps toward positive change and get there with a little more ease. Thu, 05 May 2011 15:35:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Construction Tree Protection http://imberaksehouse.ca/2008/04/17/construction-tree-protection/ http://imberaksehouse.ca/2008/04/17/construction-tree-protection/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:10:22 +0000 Barry Imber http://imberaksehouse.ca/?p=50 Fencing around treePeople share an intangible relationship with trees. Not only do they function as our house keepers, cleaning the air and managing our climate and water table, they are simply beautiful. Consequently we were sad to cut a few down that were in the center of the property where designing around them wasn’t an option for us. These trees were carefully downed to be made into lumber for use in the house for either millwork or other projects.

Chris Weatherman of Weatherhead Tree Service skillfully dropped the trees around our structures and chipped all branches. This mulch was then used as tree protection and nutrients for the remaining trees. In preparation for the construction we are setting up tree protection zones, combining mulch cover and fencing so that we don’t chance losing any more trees to carelessness or stress from heavy machinery on the roots.

This is not only common sense, it’s a fundamental component to LEEDs site management.

Mulch spread around trees as protection

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