Professional Partners
CoHousing Solutions
Katie McCamant brings the depth and diversity of her 30 + years of experience as an architect, developer, and cohousing resident to her clients.
She is a licensed architect and coauthor of the authoritative book, Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves which introduced cohousing to the English speaking world. Katie co-founded McCamant & Durrett Architects/Cohousing Company with Charles Durrett in 1987. In 2006, she and Jim Leach (Wonderland Hill Development) co-founded CoHousing Partners, a development company that partnered with cohousing groups. Today, she is the sole owner CoHousing Solutions, a development consulting firm that works with cohousing groups and developers across the US and Canada.
Katie has designed and developed dozens of cohousing communities in the United States and Canada. After 12 years living in and raising her daughter at Doyle Street Cohousing in Emeryville, she now lives at Nevada City Cohousing in the Sierra Foothills
Coolearth Architecture
Coolearth Architecture Inc. is a full services architecture firm located in Toronto and Parry Sound that offers comprehensive architectural services including passive house and net-zero homes, institutional & commercial buildings such as hospices or childcare centres, building energy analysis and policy work, and permaculture design. Their mission statement is to design buildings for human prosperity within a flourishing planet. They look at the impacts their buildings have on occupants, as well as on the ecosystems and world around them, to make smart, sustainable solutions that can help inspire positive feedback loops and positive change. They work closely with a trusted network of professional engineers, landscape architects, and other design professionals, as well as using Building Information Modelling (BIM) and energy modelling via passive house, to deliver the spaces people need!
Mortlock Construction
Mortlock Construction was established in 1947 in Peterborough by Walter H. Mortlock. In 1949, the company, then entitled W.H. Mortlock General Contractor, was incorporated under the laws of Ontario. After sixteen years of owning and operating the business Walter Mortlock retired, selling his share of the company to his brother Albert A. Mortlock in 1963, who continued operation under the firm name of Mortlock Construction (1963) Limited. Albert retired in 1978, selling the company to his sons, William K. Mortlock and Thomas A. Mortlock, thus keeping the business family owned and operated. Under the ownership of the brothers construction operations continued with the firm name Mortlock Construction (1978) Limited and in 1990 it became Mortlock Construction Incorporated. Today, Craig, Tom’s son is carrying on the family tradition as a third-generation owner. With over seventy years in the construction industry, building Peterborough and surrounding area, Mortlock Construction has experienced and survived all the highs and lows of the economy, and the ever changing industry, while managing to maintain its strong focus on the community that supports us.