Green Building
What is Green Building?
We Strive for 5 Star AEGB Green Building Ratings
Health
The most important function of a home is to help keep us healthy. A healthy home includes indoor air that is consistently healthy to breathe; that is, free of mold (e.g. resulting from poor ventilation or poor moisture management) or toxins (e.g. from chemicals used in common building materials).
Water
From water-efficient fixtures and appliances inside the home to drought-resistant landscapes on the outside, our homes help homeowners reduce their water use.
Education
A key part of delivering a green home is communicating to homeowners how best to live in and maintain their home so as to optimize the home’s indoor air quality, energy efficiency, water efficiency, and long-term durability
Materials
We build homes that last longer by using quality materials and good design. We reduce our material waste with efficient construction practices, and we recycle 50-75% of the construction waste on our projects.
Energy
We want our homes to satisfy homeowners’ needs as efficiently as possible. Energyefficient homes will save homeowners money, and will reduce environmental impacts from energy production.
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Keys to Energy Efficiency:
- Air Tightness – keep the outside out, and the inside in
- Insulation, and More Insulation – high Rvalue materials in the walls and a continuous thermal break outside of the structural framing
- Efficient Heating and Cooling – high- efficiency heat pump systems for heating and cooling both air and water in the home
- Efficient Appliances – Energy-Star* appliances and LED lighting throughout the homes
- Solar PV – our homes off-set their energy use with rooftop harvesting of clean energy from the sun