Case Study: Advancing Residential Housing Sustainability and Resilience using Community Solar: The Crossing Place – Kanaka Bar Indian Band (KBIB) · Best Practices in Building Systems

Title: Case Study: Advancing Residential Housing Sustainability and Resilience using Community Solar: The Crossing Place – Kanaka Bar Indian Band (KBIB)
Abstract: The Kanaka Bar Indian Band also known as T'eqt' aqtn'mux or "the crossing place people", is a First Nations government located at Kanaka Bar, BC, Canada, between the towns of Boston Bar and Lytton in the Fraser Canyon. Beginning in 2019, KBIB proposed and subsequently developed through 2024, Phase I of “The Crossing Place”; a multi-family development consisting of 24 modular homes comprised of single, duplex, and triplex units, with a shared community amenities building and agricultural space. The Crossing Place provides affordable housing for Elders, members of the Kanaka Bar Indian Band, as well as other Indigenous Peoples and families in the Fraser Canyon region.
Contributor: Ben Giudici
Date Submitted: 2026/02/27
Format: PDF
Type: Text
Extent: 6 pages
Language: en-CA
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License
Is Part Of: Technical system threads; Energy and Thermal Systems
Description: Case study: text, colour photos, graphs
Identifier: 30

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