units. According to Drew, that diversity of housing forms is very purposeful: “We don’t just want to build million dollar homes,” he says. “We want to have a variety of housing forms and types within our developments. We want some apartment rentals, some condos, some stacked townhouses, some townhouses, some smaller units. Our goal is to provide housing to a mixed demographic. We also want to start filling in some of the missing middle housing that’s so desperately needed.” No matter the typology, however, Drew believes all developments by Elevate Living stand apart for the same few reasons. One of the main reasons is they all take place in thoughtfully-considered communities that all share the same key qualities and values – e.g., they are walkable; they contain multiple housing forms, including some form of attainable housing; and they were designed and planned with a strategy for reducing carbon emissions. On the carbon emission front, Drew says a big part of that is the walkability and bikeability of their communities, which mitigates the necessity of using cars to get around. In addition, Elevate Living is also implementing electric car share, electric scooter share, and electric bike share services in all of their developments moving forward. One more thing that Elevate Living does in regards to energy efficiency and carbon emission reduction is they carefully consider the materials they use and the building techniques they deploy. That consideration is resulted in apartments that are all at least 25 per cent THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
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