The custom homes at the SAHBA Parade of Homes were built utilizing the latest in energy efficiency and green building techniques. Many of these techniques are inside the walls, above your head in the ceilings, inside the fixtures and in the heating and cooling units. Please feel free to ask your tour guide about the unique energy efficient features of each home. Look for representatives of the companies that provided these products either in the homes or in the Vendor Village.
Here are samples of the many Green features:
- Limited western window exposure
- Energy efficient solar tube skylights.
- Solar hot water heater.
- Demilec SEALECTIONTM 500 insulation seals the home from infiltration with no ozone depleting chemicals, CFC, HCFC, fibers, formaldehyde or asbestos. Computer controlled heating and cooling system.
- 16 seer cooling with 95% efficiency gas furnaces
- SPF wood used. SPF is a hybrid tree that is fast growing and is considered a renewable resource. The tree is a combination of spruce, pine and fir.
- Use of concrete pavers in the open outdoor areas that will enable rainwater to soak through eliminating run off from the property and utilizing the rainwater on site.
- Complete solar systems with electric generators that will sell back unneeded electricity to TRICO.
- Energy efficient AC system with modulating dampers for zoned heating and cooling with a variable flame/variable speed furnace.
- Low voltage lights and bulbs.
- Low maintenance landscapes
- Gray water systems
- Instant, on-demand gas hot water systems
- The use of natural southwest adobe.
- 400 series Andersen windows
- Andersen exterior doors with three part latching system
- Tyvek wrap under foam before the stucco to create an airtight and watertight house
- Tankless hot water heater
- ICF insulated concrete wall system
- Insulated concrete forms and Lite-Deck Concrete Decks and Floors product
- Earth Energy fireplaces that are also 90% efficient heaters
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