AFFORDABLE ZERO ENERGY HOMES
A few short years ago the notion of a zero energy home was beyond the imagination of most people. While the technologies needed were available, the costs to do this was far beyond the average homeowners budget. While technologies to accomplish this have advanced over the last few years and the costs for these technologies continues to decline, the solutions are closer than you may have previously thought. Today we can build a home that is not only efficient but can produce all of the energy needed through use of renewable energy, primarily the sun. By combining design, methods, materials and systems we have come up with affordable approaches to building energy free homes, today. Today a zero energy home can be built for as little as $165 sq/ft . To achieve this is no simple feat and there are some tradeoff's that must be made to do this, at this cost. Forget the granite countertops and chose a solar hot water system instead, but if you still want the granite you can have them but not at this cost. The trade offs are mostly the fluff as I call it, all of the things we like to put in our homes that have no energy value but add beauty to the interior design, you can still have the fluff, but not at the price point.
Design and construction of energy efficient and zero energy homes.
Thank you for visiting Energy Efficient building Technologies web site. Our goal is to design and build homes that reduce or eliminate your need for energy, freeing you from the grasp of big energy companies. Take a look at some of the innovative ways we have come up with, to solve these problems, including our prototype thermal mass windows system (Trombe). The single most innovative, passive solar collection system to be developed in a long time. Check out our videos, with details to the construction processes used and a little bit about materials and home performance testing.
MIT solar decathlon house 2007
Passive solar home, with water filled windows
That's me, explaining how our solar hot water system works
Energy efficient SIP's envelope system during construction
Project links
Curio house Solar decathlon house 2009
