Green Home Building - Energy Efficient Homes

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What, exactly, is a high performance, systems-built home? This simply means that the building in which you live can drastically improve your Family's Quality of Life.

Between work, school and home, Americans spend at least 90% of their lives inside of buildings. Indoor pollutants often exceed outside levels by two to three times. A green building transforms the quality of indoor air and transforms the quality of our daily living. A building designed for efficiency and conservation affects the family environment in numerous positive ways:

• Health: Vapor barriers and strategic ventilation control moisture. This improves indoor air quality and results in:
• Higher test scores in children
• Reduction of sick days
• Reduction of Asthma, allergies & other respiratory illnesses
• Less depression
• Fewer headaches
• Comfort: Quality windows, high efficiency heating & cooling systems, and increased wall & ceiling insulation improves year-round thermal comfort.
• Safety: Appliances & heating units have sealed combustion, thus carbon dioxide does not have the chance to leak into your home.
• Durability: Quality construction leads to less maintenance over the life of the home, which means more free time & money for you and your family.
• Energy Efficiency: A lower utility bill means significant long-term savings.
• Resale value: More money in your pocket when you sell.

These are the client’s immediate benefits. Green building is merely a choice of quality design and construction methods instead of the mindless construction techniques of the 1970’s. On the grander scale, you are contributing to a cleaner Colorado environment by conserving natural resources for your grandchildren and future generations.

Lamar Valley Craftsman produces a high performance house with an array of major technical features which are outlined below. This more sensitive approach to the building process represents a substantial shift in the homebuilding industry today. Each project has its own set of requirements and constraints that dictate the final product and, by addressing these factors in the initial design phase; Lamar Valley Craftsman will build what is ultimately a better home.

Components of a Green Home