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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.
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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.
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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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Creating an open floor plan design
(eliminating as many walls as possible).
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Developing traffic patterns to reduce the
need for hall area.
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Obtain multiple uses of space where
appropriate (more than one function per area).
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Use radius walls to improve traffic flow and
create a larger appearance.
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Use the interior volume by not wasting
available space.
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Sculpture the interior by building in
furniture, lighting, etc.
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Choose a well insulated exterior wall system
that does not eat up interior space due to its excessive
thickness.
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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.
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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.
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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:
-
· Creating an open floor plan design (eliminating as many walls as
possible).
-
· Developing traffic patterns to reduce the need for hall area.
-
· Obtain multiple uses of space where appropriate (more than one
function per area).
-
· Use radius walls to improve traffic flow and create a larger
appearance.
-
· Use the interior volume by not wasting available space.
-
· Sculpture the interior by building in furniture, lighting, etc.
-
· Choose a well insulated exterior wall system that does not eat up
interior space due to its excessive thickness.
Energy Efficient Building Shape
Building shape is also a major concern for a good, energy
efficient, modern home design. Our goal is to design an
attractive home with the least amount of exterior surface area
without sacrificing good aesthetic appeal.
The shape of a home can play a considerable role in how
energy efficient it is. A more compact, open-design concept can
maximize interior space use, while reducing exterior wall
surface area.
When we reduce the surface area, we reduce heat transfer.
Shapes that achieve good ratios of surface area to volume are
more energy efficient.
Earth Sheltered Home
Earth sheltering is a significant benefit if your lot is
conducive. The sun and earth combined for comfort! This is the
blending of a
CHB Custom Home with its site to help achieve a low profile, in
addition to providing energy savings.
Smart planning and design leads to improved comfort, better
livability, and money and energy savings and a home that will
serve your enjoyment for years to come..
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Equal Housing Opportunity