A Florida home complete by Sarasota's DwellGreen, Inc. has won four 2008 Aurora Awards, including one Grand Aurora, for arete in the chic of blooming building. This home was ahead certified in June 2008 by the Florida Green Building Coalition as the accomplished assuming blooming home in Florida complete to date.
Sarasota, FL -- A North Port, Florida abode complete by DwellGreen, Inc. (www.dwellgreen.com ) accustomed four 2008 Aurora Awards (www.theauroras.com ) for arete in high-performance blooming building. The house, amid at 12020 DeSoto Dr. in North Port, won one Aurora and one Grand Aurora accolade appropriately in the chic of Green Construction--New Production Builder Spec Model, and one Aurora Award anniversary for Water-wise Home and Energy Efficient Home --Detached Single-Family categories respectively.
Each year, the Aurora Awards admit the Southeast's a lot of outstanding builders, planners, architects, developers, designers, autogenous merchandisers and added housing-related professionals aural a 12-state region.
The North Port home is accepted to abate the homeowner's operating costs by 60% or more, while carrying them a absurd Florida lifestyle This activity is different in that it exemplifies how architecture methods and technologies accept afflicted over the endure 10 years It shows that a home can be complete to accomplish a top blooming account after spending added than it would accept amount for a commonly complete home. The Home Front Homes Panelized Construction System enables this abode to bear apprehension added than 200 afar per hour and these panels aswell helped the abode accomplish top acceptance array for activity ability and use of recycled materials. The Greenest Building in Florida The North Port home shows how the DwellGreen cardinal architecture action can accord Florida homeowners a college above of activity and greater accord of mind "The North Port home is accepted to abate the homeowner's operating costs by 60% or more, while carrying them a absurd Florida lifestyle," says John Lambie, admiral of DwellGreen, a arrangement of accomplished affiliates who specialize in high-performance blooming home advance ("eco-retrofitting"), and in new home construction.
"This activity is different in that it exemplifies how architecture methods and technologies accept afflicted over the endure 10 years," says Drew Smith, DwellGreen accomplice and admiral of the blooming consulting close Two Trails, Inc. (www.twotrails.net/) "It shows that a home can be complete to accomplish a top blooming account after spending added than it would accept amount for a commonly complete home."
The award-winning DwellGreen home integrates abounding of the latest best-practice abstracts and techniques in high-performance blooming construction. DwellGreen arrangement companies that provided casework and abstracts for the abode included HomeFront Homes, (www.homefronthomes.com ), McCall Engineering, Terry Osborn Architects, Calcs-Plus (www.calcs-plus.com ), MyGreenBuildings (www.mygreenbuildings.com ), Mirasol Fafco Solar (www.mirasolfafco.com ), Two Trails, Inc. (www.twotrails.net ), Whirlpool appliances, Taz Tile and Marble, Babe's Plumbing of Venice, Toto Plumbing Fixtures, Kimal Lumber, Eco-$mart Inc. (http://www.ecosmartinc.com/ ), Tom Tynes Cabinet and Finish, Mike Holsinger Landscape Consulting, J.D. Vie Landscape Consulting.
"The Home Front Homes Panelized Construction System enables this abode to bear apprehension added than 200 afar per hour," says Lambie, "and these panels aswell helped the abode accomplish top acceptance array for activity ability and use of recycled materials." Lambie added added the home's activity ability by application Low-E windows, solar baptize heating, a water-cooled air conditioning arrangement with heat-pipe dehumidification, and by active ducts in air-conditioned space--a action fabricated simple by the Home Front Homes panelized architecture system.
The Auroras are not the alone acceptance this DwellGreen home has received. In June 2008, it was accustomed the accomplished account by the Florida Green Building Coalition (www.floridagreenbuilding.org) for Florida Green Building certification. At a celebrated 226 points, the home clearly became "The Greenest Building in Florida" complete to date.
DwellGreen uses accurate appraisal to admeasurement a home's achievement in a array of key categories of structural integrity, activity ability and watershed balance. The after-effects become the base of a cardinal plan for home improvement. DwellGreen analyzes and monitors the after-effects of plan to accomplish abiding the blooming objectives are met. "The North Port home shows how the DwellGreen cardinal architecture action can accord Florida homeowners a college above of activity and greater accord of mind," says Lambie.
And it's a awful affordable lifestyle, as well. The DwellGreen home at 12020 De Soto in North Port is currently for sale. Choose to go "off the grid" for just beneath $269,000.00 (after rebates and tax credits), which includes a solar photovoltaic arrangement option, or $239,000 after the solar photovoltaic system.
Lambie, admiral of DwellGreen, is the above controlling administrator of the Florida House Institute for Sustainable Development in Sarasota.
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