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FACT:


Construction of a home accounts for about 6 percent of the total energy that home will consume over its lifespan, if it’s built with a wood frame.


FACT:


Construction of a home accounts for about 6 percent of the total energy that home will consume over its lifespan, if it’s built with a wood frame.


FACT:


When green field development is unavoidable, it should start with natural land form design, maintaining as much native vegetation as


possible. Use natural landscape functions to inform your residential design plans by working development envelopes into the natural landscape, modifying natural drainage patterns as little as possible.


Construction of a home accounts for about 6 percent of the total energy that home will consume over its lifespan, if it’s built with a wood frame.


Construction of a home accounts for about 6 percent of the total energy that home will consume over its lifespan, if it’s built with a wood frame.


FACT:


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