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1,920 Sq. Ft.
This plan won the 2009 National Green Building Award for Single Family Concept/Research! We already won the Most Innovative Home Award in our local Home Tour, and our Pennsylvania Dream plan just won the Gold Award for Custom Homes in a Moderate Climate at the national Energy Value Housing Award competition sponsored by the US Department of Energy and the NAHB Research Center. In March 2009 we were honored with the Net Zero-Energy Home of the Year Award from Built Green® Washington, the largest state-wide green building organization in the US.
Even better, we received word from the owners last year that this home used LESS THAN $100 in total energy in it’s first full year of operation! New figures for the second year indicate similar usage, in spite of a poor sun year in the Pacific Northwest for PV panels. This home has a HERS score of 32 with only 3kW of solar panels.
This two-bedroom home with loft could also have a third bedroom on the second level. As completed in early 2008, this home has achieved near Zero-Energy efficiency, with just a 3.0KW solar PV system on the roof of the detached garage. With plenty of room for an additional 3.0 KW, this home will actually put more energy back into the grid than it uses when that additional PV is installed. How about an electric car, with ZERO fuel costs?
The lighting is all compact fluorescent, the appliances all Energy Star, and the heating system is a ground-source heat pump. The main floor uses Universal Design principles, allowing full handicapped access to all main floor areas.
The home was designed for optimal use of SIPS panel construction, with virtually zero construction site waste. This would be a good plan for a remote area, where construction efficiencies are even more critical. An arctic version of this plan is being developed, please call for more information, (360) 969-2363.
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This plan won the 2009 National Green Building Award for Single Family Concept/Research! We already won the Most Innovative Home Award in our local Home Tour, and our Pennsylvania Dream plan just won the Gold Award for Custom Homes in a Moderate Climate at the national Energy Value Housing Award competition sponsored by the US […]
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We provide the most complete plan packages available on the market. We are interested in the ultimate success of your project, not just in selling a set of house plans.
We include foundation plans, foundation details, floor plans of all levels, framing details, floor framing plans, and elevation views from all sides. We also provide an electrical plan, though you will want to modify the lighting to your own tastes. Most importantly, we provide a complete mechanical plan, tailored to YOUR climate zone.
We used to ship either a “Basic Set” of plans, with just one copy of each page, or a “full Set”, which ideally would include enough plan pagers for all of your key suppliers and subcontractors. Now most people prefer to have you send them a PDF to bid from and work from, and they will carry it with them in their portable device. Even banks and building departments are now preferring electronic plan copies.
There are now FedEx Office, Office Max, and similar locations all over the country where you can have full size plans printed at a far lower cost than what we can provide, especially when the cost and time required to ship them across the country is considered. When you need an extra copy of a certain page, you can simply e-mail the pdf page you need to the local outlet, and they will have it all printed and ready for pick-up by the time you arrive. Isn’t technology wonderful!