This house was designed for a family of 3 with an apartment below for relatives. It is a 3 generation house with large shared public spaces as well as private bedroom areas. The house is designed to take advantage of solar heating, on-site renewable energy, and the beautiful siting with views of the Groton range. The house is designed and built to the highest standard of energy efficiency with R-40 walls, R-60 Roofs and R-5 windows. There is a screened porch to the north and a deck to the east. Over the garage there is an office. This house is net-zero ready. It exports energy back to the grid, but uses some imported liquid fuel for heating back-up. All the other energy needs for the house, hot-water, cooking, lights, etc are provided for with renewable energy from the on site PV panels.
The project was built by Creative Carpentry and Construction
This project is an addition to an existing house. The adult children of the owners now live in the older structure and the new Addition/ADU accommodates the couple with a living/dining/kitchen space and outdoor living on the main level with a bedroom, bathroom , and a small office. The downstairs level has work spaces, bathroom and guest space if needed. The new structure is net-zero energy, with a ground-mounted solar array providing all the annual power necessary for heating, lights, hot-water and electrical. The new structure is connected to the older house with a stair volume and screened porch that allows for sounds privacy between the two households. However, if the kids want to visit their grand-parents, they can simply walk through the screen-porch to visit the new structure.
The project was built by Bill Heigis and Trish Dwyer.
This zero-net-ready home was designed for a family of five on a wooded site with views to the south and west. The house is a one story structure with most living spaces on one level and a small guest loft above the studio in the north. The house is heated entirely with renewable sources ,passive solar, a wood boiler and a wood stove. There is also a 8 KW solar array which generates most of electricity than the house consumes annually, including electric car charging. The house was built by Bill Heigis and Hobie Guion. The energy engineering was done in collaboration with Efficiency Vermont. The house has achieved a 5 Star Plus Energy Star Rating from Efficiency Vermont. It has a HERS index rating of 24.The blower door test resulted in .36 ACH at 50P.
This is one of the most energy efficient houses built in Vermont. It is a 3 Bedroom house with a yoga studio and finished space over the garage. The house and land will produce as much energy as it consumes on an annual basis. There is a back up wood stove and solar hot water heater. The house was built by Bill Heigis and Hobie Guion. The energy engineering was done by Andy Shapiro of Energy Balance Inc. The house has achieved a 5 Star Plus Energy Star Rating from Efficiency Vermont. It has a HERS index rating of 12. It has achieved an infiltration rating of less than .2 ACH at 50 P. That is 3 times better than what is required of PassiveHaus.
This house was built as part of the planned community of Prospect New Town in Longmont Colorado. It is a two bedroom house that was built on spec by a builder in the community. The strategies for passive solar heating and passive cooling allow this house to run on a minimum of fossil fuel in the winter and no mechanical air conditioning in the summer time.
The house was designed for the planned community of Prospect New Town. A three-bedroom house, built on spec by a local developer, the house creates generous indoor and outdoor spaces on a narrow urban lot. Passive solar design helps with heating in the winter and passive cooling in the summer.
This house for a family of four, is a transformation of a structure that was originally built to be a four car garage. Located on an open site in northern Vermont, there are spectacular views to the south and west. We worked on this project in two phases adding the garage and guest wing seven years after the original transformation. This house makes use of solar thermal collectors for space heating and hot water, as well as passive solar. The envelope is super insulated. A wood stove provides a majority of the space heating.
We designed and built this house for ourselves. The house is super-insulated, passive solar and passively ventilated. It is heated by the sun and by two cords of wood per winter with a propane heater as back-up. All the electrical needs of building are supplied by a solar array on the property. An air to air heat exchanger contributes to the structure's very high level of energy efficiency. The house serves as a living space and work space for our artwork, cabinet and furniture projects and incorporates an art studio and a design office.
This project is a renovation of an existing house. With two small additions we added an art studio and enlarged the existing kitchen. The goal was to create spaces filled with sunlight to ride through the winter. Changes were also made to the landscaping around the building. Lawn and driveways were transformed into flower beds and an outdoor terrace for eating and entertaining. To increase the energy efficiency of the structure the walls of the additions are airtight and super insulated while insulation was added to existing walls.
This house is a small house for one or two people. It is sited on a wooded site near a stream next to the Green Mountain National Forest. This high performance passive and active solar home is super insulated with a high performing energy efficient envelope. This house runs on less than two cords of wood a year. The rest of the heat is provided by the solar system and some insidental electric backup. Excess heat generated by the sun in summer and on warm days is stored for later use with an innovative solar heating system/thermal storage system designed by the builder J. Craig Robertson.
This house was designed for a couple who spends their winters in Florida. On a wooded site near a lake, this house makes use of shading and passive cooling through vertical airflow and cross-ventilation throughout the building. At the time of its construction it was rated one of the most energy efficient houses in the county where it was built.
This house was designed by DSArchitects and built by the owners , a photographer and a documentary producer. Our experience as design/builders makes us uniquely qualified to help with owner-builder projects. The wood for both structure and finish was harvested from the site. The owners cut the trees, and milled the wood with a portable sawmill. The house is not connected to the energy grid. The house is powered by photovoltaic panels, a wood stove, and a back-up propane generator. It is super-insulated and runs on passive solar energy when the sun shines in winter. It is also designed to ventilate and cool passively in the summer. The views are spectacular !
