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Sun Certified Builders Co-op
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Worker co-op in Winnipeg. Building Net Zero energy, Net Zero Carbon emission homes and small commercial, using Passive House building principles.
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Built by the best to withstand the worst. ❤️
January 15, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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How do you mend a broken heart? With a deep energy retrofit. We can make it feel as comfy as it looks, call us today.
January 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Snow schmo. Not saying we prefer it, but if you need to get the walls in, we do what we gotta do.
January 8, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Extreme weather? No problem. When you build high performance, you build future performance. Contact us today about your big plans.
January 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Happy holidays and belated solstice from all of us here on the Sun Certified Builders Co-Operative crew!
Yes, even though the sun is low, our certification is still valid 😂🌞
December 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Even brand new multi unit buildings are not without their problems, and residents know. More importantly, the maintenance and utility bills know! Don't buy a sick building. Let us take care of the next few decades of costs 😉
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Hi Donald! 👋
December 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Its not fine!! 😤

We can help. Contact us for your deep energy retrofit quote today.
December 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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When we say your whole home can be made fit for the climate, we mean your whole home. Your roof, walls, basement, windows and doors all contribute to how your environment feels!
From a low angle, a photo of two men in hardhats, highvis clothing, and fall arrest gear on a roof, placing deep trusses over sealed plywood to prepare for insulating a roof.
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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What if I told you your home could stay the same temperature all the time? Let's talk.
A meme. Kermit looking out a rainy dark window with his hand on the glass, staring. Text reads: 'thinking about all the dollars I spent on heating and cooling the same place over and over.'
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Hi Sparrow!! 👋
A woman in jeans and toolbelt standing up through a partially build roof giving a work-gloved thumbs up.
October 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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When your home is snug, you are too ❤️
Never reach for socks first thing again. Contact us about your cozy home retrofit.
Meme, a pied cat open mouth yelling at an antique looking image of a barefooted person getting out of a metal framed bed. The text reads: 'Why is the floor always cold so cold getting out of bed I dont want to put my bare feet on the cold floor pls not my tootsies'.
October 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Thank you @manitobacoop !
The Cooperative Achievement award recognize(s) and honour(s) cooperative organizations in Manitoba that have implemented projects and ventures that embody the cooperative values and principles and that benefit cooperative members and their communities.

Pic credit @kl.grant
Two besuited men stand shoulder to shoulder, jointly holding an award and smiling. The award has a fine wooden base, and is a soapstone carving of a kayak by George Auksaq.
October 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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We think embodied carbon is a solvable problem! Net zero is not decades away, it's right now, right here in Winnipeg.
For more info: https://theconversation.com/embodied-carbon-why-truly-net-zero-buildings-could-still-be-decades-away-170401
A meme. Top image, a yellow school bus driving along, labelled 'building lifetime carbon balance'. Bottom image, the bus is flung to the side being hit by a train labelled 'concrete'.
October 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The smell of fresh cut wood pairs well with fall colours and smiling faces!
In front of a forest of aspen trees in fall colour, Sean pokes his head up through the wooden rafters of a sunroom build in progress, smiling and wearing safety glasses.
October 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Sean hard at work on a new build! We do it all: new builds, retrofits, and high efficiency heating and cooling ❤️
September 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Graham bringing it in for a landing

Our wall panels are built with larsen trusses at the core, seen here from the side. We customize them to hold enough insulation to meet energy use targets, building the wall around them. This allows for flexibility and low waste that other walls just can't match.
On a construction site, a man in a high vis vest and hardhat rests his hand on a suspended and hollow wall panel, lifted by chains and hovering over the floor deck of the build. Behind him, another man works crouched, with wood bracing for other wall panels and ladders beside him. Behind the scene is a blue sky, and lush green trees.
August 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Literally! Insulation works passively to keep your home cool in summer, and warm in winter. Be prepared for everything Manitoba has to throw at you, contact us about your build today.
Meme format. Top text reads: Other Builders: we wont bother with all that insulation, minimum code is fine. Below is an image of two grungy young dudes in a car, the driver with his arm on the window sill, with the text: Be a lot cooler if you did.
August 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Prefabricated panelized construction is a snap when you have the right tools for the job 🏗️
An orange truck is parked in front of a colourful building with a black crane arm partially extended to a wall panel being pushed out of an open garage door. The paved ground is shiny with water, and the sky is cloudy behind the trees in the background. A blue truck with an orange crane arm sits to the left of a building in progress, holding aloft a wall panel with a window hole in the middle. The foreground is sandy, with tufts of grass, and aspen trees with thin white trunks and full canopies mark the background.
August 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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🫣 Ooh, a bug! 🐛

When you get tired of busting your hump for the CEOs and capitalists, come join a #WorkerCoop
An aerial shot of the NCL Salten, a container ship, that has run aground meters away from a quaint little cabin on the shore, surrounded by trees and green field. A meme, the text near the wee cabin reads 'Me, enjoying nature' as well as 'minding my business' and 'smelling the roses.' Near the container ship, the text reads 'Profit motive accelerating climate change.'
August 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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We're just over the peak and heading into August. If your AC is on the brink and you're looking for a new path, contacts us for info on retrofits and ERVs
A meme with two panels. At the top, an overlapping line graph charting the temperature during the change of season, with a rise in the middle corresponding to mid summer. The lower lines, in blue to green, represent earlier years. The higher lines, in yellow to red, represent more recent years. The bottom panel shows a Very Fancy Man with a little dog and a well dressed companion with makeup he is speaking to. The text reads 'Earth, so hot right now.'
July 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Walls going up!
A man wearing a high vis vest, carpenters belt, work clothes, and a pink hard hat stabilizes a plywood clad wall unit. Two other workers stand behind him.
July 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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We know where the real value is 😏

#WorkerCoop #LabourRights
A two panel meme. In the top panel, Lieutenant Geordi LaForge holds up a hand in a 'hold up' gesture, the text beside reads 'Taxing workers on their labour.' In the bottom panel, he points, tuned in, affirming, the text beside reads 'Taxing corporate carbon pollution and resource consumption.'
July 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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It's enough to blow your hair back seeing a building spring up in a matter of hours. Our prefab walls are built for quick installation without ever compromising on performance. This building, once complete, will use only 36 kilowatt hour per square meter annually to heat and cool. Love to see it!
A wide shot of a construction site from the shade of cool green aspen trees. Four workers in high vis vests and hardhats consult at the near corner of an open floor deck. Behind them are wall sections clad with plywood, braced with two by fours, and another wall section floats to the right of the scene, suspended by a crane arm and showing the side with tyvek covering it. The tree branches and wild grasses frame the scene in green.
July 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Our newest case study comes to us from Manitoba's @suncertified.bsky.social . The Full Monty, an envelope-first, #netzero ready #deepretrofit guided by Passive House principles, cut the home's annual energy consumption by 70 per cent.

Read the case study here: buff.ly/UN37Nhu
March 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM