| Site
• Careful excavating practices
- Limiting soil compaction
- Limiting site disturbance
- Recycled concrete used in roadways
- Best practices in erosion control
• Landscape design
- Existing native vegetation
protected from construction process
- Native vegetation used in restorative landscaping
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Energy
and Equipment
• Ground source
heat pumps
- Most energy efficient
heating and cooling system available
- Closed loop system rather than drawing water from the aquifer
• Solar
hot water heaters
• Ten-kilowatt
wind generator
Installation
| Technical | Story
• Lighting
- Energy efficient
light fixtures
- No outside light pollution
- Windows aligned for good daylighting
• Energy efficient
appliances
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Building Design and
Materials
• High efficiency building envelope
(one third the energy used compared to other buildings)
- Six inch walls filled
with recycled cellulose fiber
- Triple pane, fiberglass framed windows
(operable)
- Full house fans
- Careful building orientation to the sun
- Metal roofs to reduce heat load on the building (also long lasting)
• Seventy five percent of construction will be diverted from landfills
• Interior finishes
- Low VOC paints and adhesives
- Recycled rubber and cork floor tile
- Recyclable carpet tiles
• Travel distance for
materials reduced
- Locally grown tulip poplar
for siding
- More than 20% of materials from within 500 miles
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Water
• Innovative stormwater management system
- All the stormwater
stays on site to recharge the earth
- Biotopes and rain gardens
• Sewage
treated on site through specially designed wetlands
• Rainwater
collected from roofs used to flush toilets
- Metal roof, downspouts,
biotope, cisterns
- Water use reduced by over 30%
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