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Any element of green building and design that you incorporate into your project will benefit the environment and reduce your carbon footprint. EcoBuilders makes it easy to select the right green “ingredients” to suit your taste and budget. Enclosed are some examples of the menu we offer but our “chefs” can whip up something special just for you.
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- Create an efficient floor plan that maintains a home’s functionality.
- Use advanced framing techniques that reduce the amount of building material while maintaining the structural integrity of the home.
- Use building dimensions and layout that maximize the use of resources by minimizing material cuts.
- Reuse salvaged material where possible.
- Sort and reuse building material
- Use recycled-content building material as available.
- Recycle construction waste wood, cardboard, drywall, metals
- Use formaldehyde free batt insulation
- Administrative office and vehicle fleet have a zero carbon foot print thru a carbon offset program.
- Air sealing package
- Prefabricated Wood I-joists where appropriate
- Energy Star Rated furnace
- SEER 13 central air conditioning
- Water-efficient showerheads, sink faucets, toilets
- Low VOC paints
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- Use building materials that require no additional finish resources to complete application on site.
- Recycle construction waste asphalt shingles, concrete, block
- Use blown recycled insulation
- Use certified wood and wood-based materials, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
- High efficiency furnace, 95%
- Seer 15 central air conditioning
- Whole house fan with insulated louvers
- Spot instantaneous (tankless) water heater
- Insulate hot water lines
- Solar hot water
- Third party testing to verify performance of systems, blower door, duct leakage testing.
- Rain water collection systems
- Direct vent space heating and water heating equipment
- No added urea-formaldehyde resins
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- Panelized wall framing and roof systems
- Disassemble existing building (deconstruction) instead of demolishing.
- Conduct on site recycling efforts, use grinder and apply material onsite.
- Use soy-based foam insulation
- Alternative framing systems, Insulated Concrete Forms (ICFs), Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs)
- Parallel Strand Lumber(PSL), Finger-jointed Studs
- Ground source heat pump
- Whole house instantaneous (tankless) water heater
- Insulate all water lines
- Solar space heating and cooling, passive or active systems
- Onsite renewable energy, photovoltaic, wind
- Third-party certified for low formaldehyde emissions composite wood/agrified panel products
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