Sustainable Practices

We have built a number of energy star homes and have built for clients with significant chemical sensitivities, including a new home that exceeds the 2011 RBES standards, with radiant slab from a geothermal heat pump, and whole house heat recovery ventilation.

Energy:

• We use all wood scraps generated from timberframe and construction projects to heat our shop.
• Our super-insulated office wing uses less than 40 gallons of propane to heat a year.
• Our Shop is 100% Solar Powered with a grid inter-tie; over the course of the year we expect to use zero outside electricity from our utility.

Given these investments our goal is to preassemble projects in the shop as much as possible. We already pre-construct timberframes in our shop, and are exploring pre-fabricating wall and roof sections for client homes as well. This will further reduce our commuting costs and improve efficiency.

Resources:

• We recycle all packaging and containers at our shop.
• All our pine timbers and boards are locally grown and sawn on a portable sawmill.

Materials:

• We use Stihl Eco Bar & Chain Oil in our chainsaws.
• We use Non-petroleum based finishes on our woodwork, such as Land Ark, Vermont Natural Coatings, and Tried & True.