Oct 12, 2026 · 1 hr · 15 segments
At ETRO construction they say that “this isn’t just what we do-its who we are,” and that describes Shaun St-Amour to a T. Shaun is the Manager of Revive at ETRO, a Construction company based in…
Yeah.
Was that warehouse converted into office space or residential
space? It's one of those ones where I can't wait for you to come to Vancouver because the basement has turned into an Irish bar.
The main floor is going to turn into a high-end restaurant and And there's one down the street, so we know what it should look like.
So I'm hoping that this new space will be my next favorite restaurant in town.
And the new portion, because it was designed with architects that know Passive House, and this is where I, we're kind of getting to a stage here in Vancouver where a lot of architects and builders know about Passive House.
And so when you have clients, that may not know it, we're doing passivus fight club.
We're just putting the right details and, you know, the kind of classic five passivus principles.
And all of a sudden air tightness ends up being pretty good because even now our specialists, you know, trades are understanding air tightness details to the point where the first time in my career where, I did a tape detail and I came back the next day and the trade didn't like my tape detail and cut it and fixed it.
If we're at that stage where people are fixing my mock-ups that I know or they're getting to show something and someone fixes, I know that we're moving in the right direction as an industry.
That's very cool.
Are these trades people in-house people or hired?
Yeah, this particular project, we've, like, again, we're the GC and we've got hired all the specialists.
And what's great about this is, like, on that particular project, the glazing installer has been doing passive house windows now for about seven years.
It's pretty exciting of seeing, you know, trades just really get the details.
Yeah.
Was that warehouse converted into office space or residential
space? It's one of those ones where I can't wait for you to come to Vancouver because the basement has turned into an Irish bar.
The main floor is going to turn into a high-end restaurant and And there's one down the street, so we know what it should look like.
So I'm hoping that this new space will be my next favorite restaurant in town.
And the new portion, because it was designed with architects that know Passive House, and this is where I, we're kind of getting to a stage here in Vancouver where a lot of architects and builders know about Passive House.
And so when you have clients, that may not know it, we're doing passivus fight club.
We're just putting the right details and, you know, the kind of classic five passivus principles.
And all of a sudden air tightness ends up being pretty good because even now our specialists, you know, trades are understanding air tightness details to the point where the first time in my career where, I did a tape detail and I came back the next day and the trade didn't like my tape detail and cut it and fixed it.
If we're at that stage where people are fixing my mock-ups that I know or they're getting to show something and someone fixes, I know that we're moving in the right direction as an industry.
That's very cool.
Are these trades people in-house people or hired?
Yeah, this particular project, we've, like, again, we're the GC and we've got hired all the specialists.
And what's great about this is, like, on that particular project, the glazing installer has been doing passive house windows now for about seven years.
It's pretty exciting of seeing, you know, trades just really get the details.
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