We design resilience into buildings
We help clients create smart, beautiful and healthy buildings that allow their occupants to live well without harming the environment or being vulnerable to threats posed by climate change or energy markets.
We exist to help you ask the right questions, question the answers and know who to trust when building your next home or getaway.
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Our Idea
Designing resilience into buildings reflects our understanding of the challenges that global warming is creating and the opportunities that technological and material innovations are delivering. Our central idea is to help create buildings that, in addition to being energy smart, aesthetically beautiful and comfortable for their occupants, pay special attention to climate change and local energy opportunities.
Our Philosophy
We design resilience into buildings so you can live well. We maintain that buildings can be better and do better when climate risks and the energy potential of the sites they sit upon are the guiding lights for design, rather than afterthoughts. We believe that architecture can serve not only as shelter, but also as a means by which we can all live well and with far less impact on the planet.
Our Plans
Building and renovating buildings to create resilience is exciting and offers promise for the future. The team at Big Bad Wolf wants to help you understand and navigate this promising landscape. Our plan is to help clients create homes that achieve building energy autonomy and durability while also ensuring occupant health and comfort.
Our Strategy
The Big Bad Wolf isn't simply a character from folklore, he represents changing times and a changing climate. He compels us to ask the right questions, question the answers, build strong and be wary of bad information. With these lessons in mind, we work with architects and other designers to create durable, adaptable buildings and landscapes that are able to withstand the impact of extreme weather events and other external threats.
We are dedicated to placing renewable energy, resilience and climate risks at the centre of the design development and project implementation processes. We bring decades of experiential and theoretical knowledge to our projects so that our clients can rest easily knowing that their future building will be climate friendly and comfortable. We do this via design consulting, project management and green building research services.
Project: Sol Shed
A truly resilient building that embodies Big Bad Wolf’s five important design principles, site sufficiency, durability, safety, adaptability and beauty.
The Sol Shed is a renewable energy generating retreat, an autonomous energy hub and flexible living space that supports fossil fuel free living in harmony with the land. Solar and biomass energy support everything from showers to mobility and healthy materials, fenestration, ventilation and finishes enhance occupant health and comfort. This project serves as a reminder of what’s possible when renewable energy potential is the guiding light for design, rather than an afterthought. It also shows how architecture can serve not only as shelter, but also as a means by which we can all live well and with far less impact on the planet.
Team
Alastair Moore
PhD | RPP | LEED AP | CEM
Principal
Alastair is passionate about buildings. Especially how to build them so they perform optimally in a rapidly warming world. With Big Bad Wolf co-lead, Dominica Babicki, he has been demonstrating and living with real world solutions to the climate change challenge for more than 20 years and he wants to share these with you.
He is a registered professional planner whose practice and research focus on concrete actions that move the dial on green and energy efficient buildings, mitigating and adapting to climate change and helping to enable one-planet lifestyles.
Creating climate resilience requires an ability to integrate a range of disciplines and diverse perspectives. Alastair has direct experience in a variety of energy, environmental, business and planning positions in business, utilities, academia and not-for-profits that give him a unique ability to address the challenge.
In addition to co-leading Big Bad Wolf Strategics, Alastair is co-founder of Greenworks Building Supply Inc., Associate Faculty at Royal Roads University and Director of OneEarth Living. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology and a master’s degree in resource and environmental management and a PhD in climate policy. His doctoral research, conducted at the Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy at the University of Manchester, reveals the powerful and often invisible influence that construction intermediaries exert over housing energy retrofits.
Luke Hadley-Beauregard
BA Environmental Studies
Climate & Resilience Specialist
Luke’s experience combines environmental studies, climate resilience, and permaculture design. He holds a BA in Environmental Studies with a focus on practical strategies for sustainability and ecological design.
At Big Bad Wolf, Luke brings a fresh perspective, contributing to projects that explore resilient and regenerative solutions. He’s passionate about learning, applying environmental knowledge, and discovering ways to adapt to a changing climate.
Big Bad Wolf Resilience Design
1350 William Street, Vancouver
British Colombia, V5L 2P5, Canada
Contact:
info@bigbadwolf.ca