Energy Advisors

Anna Young is a lifelong environmentalist and building industry professional, bringing house-as-a-system thinking to every project. Meticulous in approach, and collaborative in practice, serving builders and homeowners with independent science-based guidance.

Her consultancy, Green Gold Total Home provides tailored solutions to energy efficiency and embodied carbon needs in existing and new homes. They bring together the essential components of good science, home comfort, and climate responsibility.

Their work supports current code compliance while building to future energy and embodied carbon requirements, helping projects stay resilient as standards evolve.

They care deeply about airtightness, clean indoor air, and low carbon-construction. They also care about budgets, timelines, and construction-site realities. Their calm, collaborative approach and huge enthusiasm for synergistic building solutions provides answers that work in practice, not just on paper.

From Vancouver specials to old Victorian era pre-war homes and beyond, Peter has seen over 3000 properties in his 15 year career as an energy advisor.  Through this time, he has helped administer different provincial and federal rebate programs and has been fortunate enough to see progressive changes in Vancouver’s energy by-law for renovations as well as the implementation of Step Code for new construction.

Being the senior energy advisor to work with Energysave New West and Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s retrofit program, Peter has accumulated vast knowledge dealing with older homes and the challenges they face when trying to improve the building envelope to current standards.  He also has level 1 thermography certification – a thermal imaging camera and commercial grade smoke equipment is part of his arsenal when a homeowner is serious about improving their home’s airtightness.

In his free time, Peter can be seen cycling or e-scootering through the city, camping during the warmer months of the year and has recently taken interest into landscaping as a stress reliever.