Sonja Winkelmann

Background

About Sonja Winkelmann

My career objective is to lead a collaborative effort, championing and catalyzing the residential construction industry’s transformation to net-zero. My goal is to change the relevance of value we place on homes and communities. If environmental performance (and the impact this has on our quality of life) is believed and understood to have more value, attitudes will change, causing both the market push and pull to respond. Sonja has been working in the field of energy efficient homes since 2004. She joined CHBA in 2014 as the first Director of Net Zero Energy Housing and has led the development of the Net Zero Home Labelling Program as well as the associated training courses and marketing efforts. Prior to the CHBA she was the Executive Director of the Net-Zero Energy Home Coalition, and she started her career in this industry working at an NRCan licensed Service Organization in Alberta that delivered new home rating and certification programs such as EnerGuide, Built Green™, and LEED for Homes, as well as NRCan’s Building Canada initiative. Her formal education is in Business Administration and Environmental Management, and she has received the Environmental Professional (EP) designation from ECO Canada.