America’s Greenest Home Plans
In this, our second annual home plans issue, we chose six favorites—plus a dozen notable contenders—from a field of several dozen entries organized by our friends at The House Designers.
Once again, we offer you plans for the greenest of homes that can hide in plain site in any neighborhood. In other words, these are not “alternative” structures. Most tend to appeal to mainstream buyers. To be honest, some are bigger than we’d like, but at least they’ll be consuming a lot less resources over the long haul.
We selected this year’s plans by creating an evaluation sheet and “coding” the homes on various features. For example, we devoted points to siting, natural lighting, durability/ stainability of materials, water use/conservation, plus the results of the EPS (read on).
When I say “we,” I’m referring to myself, Michael Strong (an experienced builder and member of our GB sales team) and architect Larry Garnett (www.
larrygarnettdesigns.com).
After feedback from readers last year about the lack of an “apples to apples” energy rating, all plans have been run through Earth Advantage Institute’s Energy Performance Score. This evaluation also includes a carbon score, expressed as tons produced per year. At right is an explanation of how to read the EPS scores. We’ve included an abbreviated version of the full EPS calculations with each plan. -Editor
TO ORDER PLANS FROM THIS ISSUE Visit:
www.greenbuilderhouseplans.com or scan this code:
Once there, type in GREENBUILDER50 to receive $50 off any house plan package (online only).
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