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| "By incorporating various green building principles into a home, the average home can save as much as 50% on their utility costs." U.S. Dept. of Energy experience. |
| Healthy Homes If you read the information provided below, you'll be hard pressed to think of a reason not to construct your new home with healthy building materials and techniques. Most people spend over 90% of their time indoors. Your home is a very important environment where you and your family may spend much of your time. This brochure offers ways to make your home a healthy place. It includes information on indoor and outdoor air quality, pesticides, toxic household products, mold, tobacco smoke, radon, drinking water contaminants and making your home “green”. It has a little information about a lot of different topics and links to web sites to learn more. You can try the web links throughout the brochure or go to the federal agency web sites listed below to learn more about a particular topic that interests you. | |
| U.S. Centers for Disease Control at www.cdc.gov U.S. Department of Agriculture at www.usda.gov U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at www.hhs.gov U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development at www.hud.gov U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at www.epa.gov |
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Space Efficient Green Homes
The days of
bragging about how big of a home you own we think is over.
Incorporating efficient use of space within a home design comes
with years of experience. The less square footage needed, the
less construction cost and less heat loss.
CHB Custom Homes strives to make the best use of space in their
designs by:
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| Green Homes A green home is a home designed to be energy and space efficient while providing healthy air quality, and comfort to its occupants. Green homes are also sustainable homes built to maximize our resources and create less impact on the environment. A green home is an asset to the community by improving a homeowner's quality of life with luxury and style. Healthy Green Homes Responsibility for controlling a home's pollutant sources lies with both the builder and the homeowner. Careful selection of construction materials and finishes inside the house can be very effective in eliminating the sources of air pollution from the building itself. However, even if non-polluting materials are used in construction, the occupant may move in with particle board furniture, aerosols, and cleaners that will permeate the house in a matter of hours. There are other pollutants generated by occupants that cannot be eliminated at the source. Carbon dioxide and moisture have to be managed by either dehumidification or exhausting to the outside of the building. Exhausting warm, moist, house air, however, has obvious energy penalty. Controlled ventilation maintains indoor health and comfort. Air quality in homes has become poor as builders strive to make homes tighter. CHB Custom Homes realized it is not practical to try to build a home so it leaks just enough but not too much. The CHB Custom Homes approach is to build as tight as economically possible and include controlled, heat-recovery ventilation. This assures healthy air quality, reduces heat loss, and keeps homes cleaner and more comfortable. Affordable Green Homes CHB Custom Homes has always evaluated energy-saving features cost effectively--if it saves more in energy cost than it adds to the mortgage interest expense per year, do it! Don't settle for a standard constructed home when you can receive more value for less cost with the right choice of energy saving features in a CHB Custom home. |
| Energy Efficient Homes CHB Custom Homes has been the leader in designing and building cost effective energy efficient homes since 2005. A house is a system of interconnected elements. CHB Custom Homes strives to combine all the parts with careful emphasis on economics, durability, maintenance and comfort and energy efficiency. CHB Custom Homes success in designing and building homes depends upon understanding the physical forces that create a tug of war between the outside and the inside environments. CHB Custom Homes applies the latest in building science to its homes. Our “total concept” approach seeks to enhance living comfort and home sustainability through every one of our energy saving features, including proper insulation, heat recovery ventilation, alternative heating and cooling systems, earth sheltering, new window technologies, advanced framing, and more. Climate Conscious Since heating requirements vary depending on location, we provide a variety of construction methods from which to choose. The CHB design considers not only climate but also utility cost as factors when determining construction standards. This gives our clients the ability to choose conservation methods for their specific needs. Advanced Framing CHB Custom Homes use only as much wood framing as is structurally necessary, leaving more room for insulation. This construction method eliminates structurally unnecessary wood members and replaces them with insulation. Advanced framing conserves wood, reduces heat loss and saves money without compromising the structural strength of the building. |
Modern Home
The definition of modern is a home design for today’s home
owner providing the latest in cost effective, energy efficient,
comfortable, healthy, green, sustainable technology.
Green Home Design Concepts
Besides energy efficiency, there are other key elements
unique to all of our designs. Affordable means just that.
Starting the first year, properly chosen features should return
more dollars in energy savings than they will cost you annually.
Style is enhanced through the utilization of open designs, and
low maintenance exteriors. Protecting against rising energy
prices adds to your security and your home’s future value.
Our ongoing commitment is to research and evaluating new
products and construction techniques, incorporating those we
find to be of true value into each new
CHB
Custom Home design.
Space Efficient Green Homes
The days of bragging about how big of a home you own we think
is over. Incorporating efficient use of space within a home
design comes with years of experience. The less square footage
needed, the less construction cost and less heat loss.
CHB
Custom Homes strives to make the best use of space in their
designs by:
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