ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN NEW HOME BUILDS IS WIDELY RECOGNIZED AS IMPORTANT
Energy efficiency in new home builds is widely recognized as important, and an increasing number of owners of newly built luxury homes have focused much of their attention on environmental home design ideas, optimizing the environmental friendliness of their homes from start to finish.
Green Building Goals To Build Your Luxury Home In Rehoboth Beach
As sustainable home builders, our green approach focuses on achieving the goals discussed in this guide. Download this document to learn how each of these goals - ranging from indoor air quality, energy efficiency and materials efficiency to sustainability and minimized maintenance - benefits you and how we are leading the way in building sustainable custom homes.
Top 10 Eco-Friendly Home Ideas
The industry-leading, environmentally friendly ideas we build into new homes and renovations.
| No. | Green Idea | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Protect the Environment | Reducing demand for electricity, gas, and water lets a home do more with less and places a smaller burden on the environment. |
| 02 | Improve Indoor Air Quality | Modern construction and design approaches reduce emissions from commonly used building and finishing materials. |
| 03 | Occupant Health & Comfort | Advanced allergen filters and humidifiers/dehumidifiers in the air-circulation system support greater respiratory health. |
| 04 | Energy Efficiency | From expandable foam insulation to Energy Star-rated appliances and strategically located landscaping vegetation. |
| 05 | Materials Efficiency | Better-quality materials and craftsmanship delay the replacements and repairs common to lesser-built homes for many more years. |
| 06 | Water Heating Efficiency | On-demand water heaters replace units that constantly maintain the temperature of a set volume of water. |
| 07 | Conserve Water | Low- or variable-flow toilets and sprinkler systems with sensors help minimize water waste. |
| 08 | Promote Sustainability | Net-zero and zero-energy homes feed electricity back into the utility grid. |
| 09 | Minimal Natural Resources | Solar panels, geo-thermal heat pumps, and on-demand water heaters reduce demand on natural resources. |
| 10 | Value & Low Maintenance | Green building techniques help a home retain, and even increase, its value over the long run while minimizing maintenance. |
TOP 10 ECO-FRIENDLY HOUSE IDEAS
The following list contains the top ten industry-leading, eco-friendly house ideas, all of which we are proud to incorporate into our new builds and renovations for our clients.
1. Protect The Environment: reducing demand for electricity, gas, and water means that your home can do more with less and place a smaller burden on your environment.
2. Improve Indoor Air Quality: current construction and design approaches reduce emissions from commonly used building and finishing materials, resulting in better indoor air quality.
3. Enrich Occupant Health and Comfort: increasingly advanced and efficient allergen filters and humidifiers/ dehumidifiers built into the air circulation system contribute to greater respiratory health within the home.
4. Realize Energy Efficiency: increases in energy efficiency are realized today both inside the home through updated technology in everything from expandable foam insulation to Energy Star- rated appliances and outside the home with strategically selected and located landscaping vegetation.
5. Enhance Materials Efficiency: better quality materials and highest quality craftsmanship lead to the best efficiency in the long term, delaying by many more years the need for replacements and repairs that are common to homes not built with the optimum labor and materials.
6. Achieve Water Heating Efficiency: The use of on-demand water heaters, rather than those that maintain the temperature of a particular volume of water is a current leading example of energy efficiency in the home.
7. Conserve Water: Water conservation is another key feature of a green home, achieved with the use of low- or variable- flow toilets, and sprinkler systems with sensors that help minimize water waste.
8. Promote Sustainability: new net-zero and zero energy homes promote sustainability as they are able to feed electricity back into the utility grid and result in no energy costs on an annual basis.
9. Use a Minimum of Natural Resources: the reduction of burden on the environment that results from using solar panels, geo-thermal heat pumps, and on-demand hot water heaters, contributes to the sustainability of your green home. It also reduces your monthly expenses and your demand for natural resources.
10. Optimize Operation while Minimizing Maintenance and Maximizing Value: An initial investment of 2% of your building costs into green/ sustainable building techniques has been shown to yield savings more than 10 times the original investment. Such a home retains, and even increases, in value at a higher rate than a non- green home over the long run, yielding a greater return on overall investment for the homeowner.
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HOW WE DO IT AND DO IT WELL
We at CRx Construction understand the impact we can make by improving home quality and reducing maintenance needs, while reducing the net operating cost of a home. By addressing specific design considerations and materials early in the build process, we minimize the utility load on the home. We also understand the importance that our clients place on environmentally friendly practices and materials in their new builds.
We achieve the reduction of energy, or even net-zero energy consumption, and the implementation of all the environmentally friendly aspects of construction in our builds by first listening to and understanding our client s environmental interests and green goals for the construction of their new home. Then we carefully consider the orientation of the home on the building site as well as the inclusion of the various interior systems and materials to achieve our homeowners plans.
As Certified Green Professionals (CGP), our team believes in being environmentally sensitive and mindful of the impact of our material choices on the earth s limited natural resources.
Green Building Goals To Build Your Luxury Home In Rehoboth Beach
As sustainable home builders, our green approach focuses on achieving the goals discussed in this guide. Download this document to learn how each of these goals - ranging from indoor air quality, energy efficiency and materials efficiency to sustainability and minimized maintenance - benefits you and how we are leading the way in building sustainable custom homes.
Dion Lamb is the founder and President of CRx Construction, a luxury custom home builder and remodeler serving Rehoboth Beach, Dewey Beach, Lewes, Bethany Beach, and Fenwick Island, Delaware. Since founding CRx in 2016, Dion has led the firm to a #1 Houzz ranking in Rehoboth Beach and Dewey Beach and a 5-star reputation, guiding homeowners through his trademarked “5 Simple Steps” design-build process. CRx is a member of NAHB, the Home Builders Association of Delaware (HBADE), and the Certified Luxury Builders Network, and a Regal Award winner for Best Luxury Custom Home Design.
