designed with a “high performance building
envelope” consisting of spray foam insulation
throughout, triple gazed windows and heat re-
covery ventilators.
The Rainbow project earned Glacier Creek
2010 Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corpo-
ration (CMHC) national award for best practices
in affordable housing — an honour they shared
with the WHA. Glacier Creek was also named
the 2010 BC Hydro Power Smart Residential
Builder of the Year for the same project.
That award and others help reinforce the
company’s main philosophy.
“That housing should not just be affordable
to buy, it should be affordable to live in as well,”
said Coggins.
Glacier Creek has split into three divisions,
each with a separate focus. Glacier Creek Con-
tracting Ltd. and Glacier Creek Pacific Contract-
ing Ltd. both focus on projects but the former
division focuses on projects of larger size and
scope, which value in the tens of millions of
dollars, while the latter focuses on individual
homes and customized projects. The third divi-
sion, Glacier Creek Insulation Ltd., provides in-
sulation services that supports the company’s
environmental initiatives on their building proj-
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