March 5, 2008 at 1:35 pm | Green Home Building, Green Power
- Posted by John Wyeth |
If you’re planning on building a home and are interested in realizing the most bang for your energy efficiency buck, you’d be smart to incorporate passive solar
principles into the design of your home. Improved comfort and reduced cooling and heating energy bills can be achieved through passive solar design. Builders and designers use solar geometry concepts to integrate passive solar design into a home. Practically any type of architectural style can be employed with PSD - the only requirement is a building site which lends itself to the solar design principle of proper orientation.
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February 1, 2008 at 12:29 am | Green Home Building
- Posted by John Wyeth |
Many people will tell you that building a green, energy efficient home is much more costly than a traditionally constructed home. In the past, this would likely have been a true statement, however, some builders are now able to construct green homes that are comparable to or even less expensive than traditional construction.
Built by Ferrier Custom Homes, Heather’s Home is an affordable, three bedroom, 2,000+ square foot home located near Ft. Worth, Texas. The home is incredibly energy efficient - Heather’s Home rates in the top one percent of high end Energy Star homes built today. For Heather, that will mean an average monthly heating and cooling bill in the $15 range. And when it comes to summers in Texas, that’s saying a lot.
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