Building a Green Home Its Easier Than You Thinkwith some
Forethought! Slide 2 Agenda Who Was Involved? Ensuring Green
Success Making the Project Green Challenges What We Did Right Whats
Next? Who Was Involved? Ensuring Green Success Making the Project
Green Challenges What We Did Right Whats Next? Slide 3 Who Was
Involved? Slide 4 Who was involved? Me: Tom Termini, the owner, and
eventually the General Contractor Mairin Coleman, my wife and the
ultimate customer/boss Me: Tom Termini, the owner, and eventually
the General Contractor Mairin Coleman, my wife and the ultimate
customer/boss Slide 5 Architect Tom Shiner, AIA Slide 6
Sub-Contractors Tim Bennet, Mason Harvey Hottel, HVAC Franklin
Plumbing MR Electricians Corely Roofing Christian Sanchez, general
carpentry Tim Bennet, Mason Harvey Hottel, HVAC Franklin Plumbing
MR Electricians Corely Roofing Christian Sanchez, general carpentry
Slide 7 Ensuring Green Success Slide 8 Three Things Made this
Project Work: 1. Site 2. Budget 3. Design 1. Site 2. Budget 3.
Design Slide 9 First, a We Got a Site Slide 10 Location, Location,
etc. Patience we looked for more than a year We knew roughly what
areas we liked We lucked out the property backs to a park and has
older trees The site allows for excellent south-eastern exposure,
and is on a hill top Patience we looked for more than a year We
knew roughly what areas we liked We lucked out the property backs
to a park and has older trees The site allows for excellent
south-eastern exposure, and is on a hill top Slide 11 Second,
Budget Baseline: We priced houses that were larger, wouldnt need
work, and that we could afford We opted for reasonable size and
amenities that were not extravagant We made green a goal, because
it met our requirements for efficiency and low maintenance
Baseline: We priced houses that were larger, wouldnt need work, and
that we could afford We opted for reasonable size and amenities
that were not extravagant We made green a goal, because it met our
requirements for efficiency and low maintenance Slide 12 Finally,
Design We knew some things we wanted... Efficiency, Low Maintenance
Simple, Modern Look Something Affordable We knew some things we
wanted... Efficiency, Low Maintenance Simple, Modern Look Something
Affordable Slide 13 ...And Some Things We Didnt: Cost-Overruns
Cheesy Half-Baked...And Some Things We Didnt: Cost-Overruns Cheesy
Half-Baked Slide 14 Green Came NaturallyWe Got an Architect to Help
Cohesive, Big-Picture Approach Design! Technically Complex
Expertise Required An Ally Cohesive, Big-Picture Approach Design!
Technically Complex Expertise Required An Ally Slide 15 Slide 16
Making The Project Green Slide 17 Design To Aid Cooling High-placed
Celestory Windows Promote Convection Sky Light that opens to help
make the Central Stairwell a Chimney Trees on site provide shade in
summer and from western sun High-placed Celestory Windows Promote
Convection Sky Light that opens to help make the Central Stairwell
a Chimney Trees on site provide shade in summer and from western
sun Slide 18 Overhangs Slide 19 Reflective Membrane Roof Slide 20
Renewable Materials Bamboo Floors Linoleum Recycled the Concrete
from Demolition Bamboo Floors Linoleum Recycled the Concrete from
Demolition Slide 21 Gas-charged High-R-Value Windows + Doors
Gas-charged High-R-Value Windows + Doors Extra-Thick Walls Permit
More Insulation Extra-Thick Walls Permit More Insulation Slide 22
The Drill Rig Slide 23 Geothermal Heat Pump Slide 24 Geothermal
Heat Pump Geothermal Heat Pump Slide 25 Not Just a House, But a
Home for My Family Slide 26 Challenges Slide 27 Retrofitting is
Tough Slide 28 What We Did Right Slide 29 Got an Architect Sized
Appropriately Choose Three Things to Go Green With Got an Architect
Sized Appropriately Choose Three Things to Go Green With Slide 30
Whats Next? Slide 31 We pre-wired for a residential Fuel Cell,
which is being tested by Ballard Power in Japan New types of
Photovoltaics may be an option (rate-of-return on current systems
too low) We pre-wired for a residential Fuel Cell, which is being
tested by Ballard Power in Japan New types of Photovoltaics may be
an option (rate-of-return on current systems too low) Slide 32
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