A Tour of Green Homes
Blue skies and a light breeze set the stage for a great afternoon of green home hopping recently here in southern Maine on July 25th. Builders, architects, real estate agents, and other green building professionals and advocates were among a select group invited to tour several area homes that each have taken a different approach to “green” or sustainable building. Of the three homes we toured 2 are in various stages of LEED for Homes certification. A third home was a remarkable example of sighting and of building for low maintenance and long life cycle using standing seam copper siding, slate flooring, and salvaged timbers for framing.
Open loop ground source heat pumps were probably the most amazing technology on display today but it was some of the simpler things that were really quite impressive. For me it was great to see local subcontractors that I’ve seen around for years working on making the transition to better and more sustainable building. Our host for the event was the Maine Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council and as usual for this group the event was well planned and we were well fed and well watered!
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