Standard Home Features
- Floor Plans
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Vaulted ceilings
- Energy efficient homes with well insulated (walls R29, roof R38)
- Private backyards
- High speed internet connections
- Open floor plan: living, kitchen, & dining room
- Sunny and spacious
- Enjoy the privacy of your own private home
Know all your neighbors
Green Features of Individual Homes:
- 5/8" drywall instead of standard 1/2" - better sound and thermal insulation
- Insulation upgrade (higher R value; cellulose in walls; BAT in ceiling)
- Solar stubs to roof for future solar water heating
- Units exceed model energy code and have the Energy Star/Energy Advantage designations
- Basements provide space that is easier to heat and cool
- 2"x6" walls provide extra depth for more insulation
- Homes oriented for solar gain
- Programmable thermostats
- Solatubes in most units; some skylights
- "Borrow lights" made of glass block let natural light into interior rooms
- High efficiency A/C units
- Hydraunic heating - home heating based on heat generated by water heater
- Insulation of basement walls with foam
- Upgraded double-pane windows
Water:
- Corrugated roofs included to provide cleaner water for harvesting
- Some homes include water harvesting cisterns
- Detention basins hold 100 year storm on site. Reduces flooding downstream, increases soil moisture
- Water harvesting swales and basins included throughout to help water plants
- Water purchased in bulk for savings
- Efficient drip irrigation system
Toxicity:
- Low VOC paint
- Lower toxicity mudsills
- Corrugated metal roof yields cleaner water for reuse Some plywood used in place of OSB (or other low VOC wood substitute)
- Low VOC OSB used
- General directive to subcontractors to use the lowest tox option available
- Choices were explored for lower toxicity flooring (e.g., no floor covering - polished concrete, wheatboard, cork, low-voc carpet, etc.)
- Fresh air intake to exchange out interior air (important in closed-in air-conditioned spaces.)
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