Devland Inc.
Tour an ENERGY STAR® and Built Green™ home! This model features Energy Star appliances, a passive solar design, low-toxic materials for improved indoor air quality, stylish recycled hardwood flooring, natural wool carpet, and spacious covered porches. This house is better for your health, costs you less on utility bills, and allows you to tread more lightly on the earth. Live healthier, live richer, live Green!
Green Living Features:
40 Year Roof
No one likes to replace a roof more often than necessary. It uses up resources (including your money!) and the old roofing usually ends up in a landfill. A 30-year roof is good looking, durable and has an efficient lifecycle cost.
Advanced Framing-Ceiling
Heat rises. The sun heats from above. Both are reasons why extra efforts to insulate ceiling areas pay big dividends. Ceiling insulation is also quite economical. In this home Energy heels of 6" on trusses allow added insulation over the top plate, The point at which typical roof rafters connect with the top plate of the exterior wall leaves little room for the full depth of attic insulation, creating compressed insulation and reduced performance. A raised heel truss, or "energy heel," raises the truss at that point (at least 6 inches) to allow the insulation enough room to produce its full R-value at this critical location.
Advanced Framing-Insulated Headers:
The headers (beams) over doors and windows have typically been a point of increased heat loss because they were made from laminated framing timbers with no insulation. The simple technique used for this home laminates a layer of rigid foam between 2X s where structurally possible to create insulated headers. This reduces heat transfer to keep the home warmer in winter and cooler in summer.
Build Tight, Ventilate Right
"Build tight and ventilate right" is an approach important both to the homeowners' comfort and to reducing the cost of heating and cooling. It's an approach that also sets the stage for improving indoor air quality. Proper framing techniques, improved insulation and sealing systems eliminate construction voids preventing air leakage and draft. A thermally efficient, airtight envelope and super-insulated walls and ceiling minimize heat loss in winter, and heat gain in summer. One of the cost advantages of this home is that it doesn't require expensive air conditioning to remain comfortable in the summer months and at the same time significantly reduces heating costs in the winter.
Ceramic Tile Flooring
The flooring and countertops chosen for this home add a great deal of style, beauty and ease-of-maintenance over the typical "non-green" choice. A "green" floor or counter top choice usually means a material that comes from recycled or renewable resources, or one that is not made with the kinds of synthetic materials that off-gas annoying or harmful compounds. Quite often this leads to simple, natural materials, such as stone or slate, or the beautiful ceramic tile you see in this home.
Detached Garage
A detached garage has many advantages. First is air quality. Because it is a separate building, emission from your car (and shop) are separated from living spaces. Also, there is no heat loss from the living spaces when you open the garage door.
Drought tolerant landscaping
Beautiful and natural is the inspiration for landscaping throughout High Point. The topsoils were amended with an addition of compost and organic materials. Drought-tolerant native plant species thrive in the local climate and tend to be more pest and disease resistant. The result is a garden that uses less water, has reduced maintenance and weeding required, and the naturally improved soils produce healthy, vibrant plant growth without the use of chemical amendments and pesticides. Using natural mulches and compost also creates a market for the recycling of yard and land clearing wastes, which keeps them out of landfills.
Effective Insulation
Properly installed insulation in walls, floors and attics results in better energy-saving performance and enhanced comfort.
Efficient Water Heater Placement
Small things can make a big difference! In this case the water heater is located within 20 feet of the point of highest use.
ENERGY STAR Light Fixtures
"These fixtures distribute light more efficiently and evenly than standard fixtures. They lower utility bills by lasting 10 times longer and using 75% less energy than incandescent fixtures. They have superior light quality, are flicker-free, emit no hum, start instantly, and come with a two-year warranty, which is double the industry standard. By replacing the five most frequently used lights in your home with ENERGY STAR qualified lighting, you can save about $60 per year in energy costs."
ENERGY STAR qualified clothes washer
ENERGY STAR clothes washer uses 50% less energy and water than conventional models.
ENERGY STAR qualified dishwasher
ENERGY STAR qualified dishwasher uses 25% less energy than a standard model, saving about $100 over its lifetime.
ENERGY STAR qualified heat pumps
ENERGY STAR qualified heat pumps have a greater heating and cooling efficiency rating. ENERGY STAR homes with heat pumps are commissioned to ensure proper charge, flow and performance.
ENERGY STAR Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs
- Use 75% less energy than standard incandescent bulbs and last up to 10 times longer.
- Advanced phoshors eliminate color shift
- Replacing a 100-watt incandescent with a 32-watt CFL can save you at least $30 in energy cost over the life of the bulb.
- By replacing the five most frequently used lights in your home with ENERGY STAR qualified lighting, you can save about $60 per year in energy costs.
ENERGY STAR qualified refrigerator
ENERGY STAR qualified refrigerator uses less energy in one year than a 75-watt light bulb.
ENERGY STAR qualified windows
ENERGY STAR qualified windows reduce heat flow for greater comfort, reduced condensation and lower energy costs.
Environmentally Friendly Building Materials
You will see throughout this home attention paid to materials that are friendly to the environment, low in maintenance and durable. Another criteria for selecting "green" building materials is indoor air quality. Attention was paid to use materials, substrates and surfaces that would eliminate or minimize "off-gassing" that home owners often find irritating or harmful to health. In a tour of this home, you just might miss that "new home smell." That's a good thing!
Hardiplank from the James Hardie Corporation
This cement and fiber siding is known for high durability and low maintenance or replacement costs. It's guaranteed for 50 years.
Heat System Located within Heated Space
By having the heating system located within the heated space heating and cooling is not lost in an attic or crawlspace. In addition the central location reduces the amount ductwork require reducing installation costs and ongoing heat loss. All ductworks received advanced sealing using low-toxic mastic.
High efficiency Water Heater
High efficiency water heater utilizes built-in insulation and efficient burners to help cut costs while keeping water hotter, longer.
Large Front and Side Porches
These porches not only function as multi-season living spaces, but also help regulate the temperature of the home.
Low V.O.C. Paints
V.O.C. stands for volatile organic compounds (which are pollutants). Using paints formulated to be low in emissions is a lot healthier for the painters and for the residents.
Natural Granite Counter Tops
The flooring and countertops chosen for this home add a great deal of style, beauty and ease-of-maintenance over the typical "non-green" choice. A "green" floor or counter top choice usually means a material that comes from natural, recycled or renewable resources, or one that is not made with the kinds of synthetic materials that off-gas annoying or harmful compounds. Quite often this leads to simple, natural materials, such as the stunning natural granite you see here.
Performance Testing
Performance testing by trained technicians ensures that your home's duct system is energy efficient, your indoor air is cleaner and your home will be comfortable year-round.
Pervious Pavers for Walkways and Landscaping
This beautiful paving material allows rainwater to drain through to be incorporated into the natural drainage system of High Point. And we'll bet you thought we used it because it's so beautiful!
Rain Barrels
It's almost like something our of the Farmer's Almanac: an old technology becomes new again. When you divert rainwater into rain barrels it can be stored for irrigation use. Rainwater collection systems reduce the use of potable water for irrigation- lowering water and sewer fees, and it helping to reduce and buffer runoff to adjacent wetlands.
Recycled Fir Floors
This beautiful fir floor was recycled from a home being deconstructed at Rainier Vista.
Recycled Maple Floors
This stylish maple flooring was recycled from the gym remodel at Cleveland High School.
Solar Orientation
Windows have been placed to take advantage of solar heating and cooling.
THIS HOME HAS EARNED THE ENERGY STAR
Designed, built and performance tested to provide enhanced comfort, healthier indoor air, energy savings and a better future.
Trees Protected
One of the many features that makes High Point such a special neighborhood are the legacy trees that have been preserved during reconstruction. As Devland, Inc. created these homes special care was taken to protect existing trees as well as to use erosion control measures to help prevent soil from washing away.
Wood Flooring on the First Floor
As an alternative to finished concrete, the wood floor shown here is warm, beautiful and easy to maintain.
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