We have several new projects coming up that run a wide spectrum of very technical and green with many different building systems and in many different styles from cottage to modern all of which incorporate aging in place design.

• A home that uses Insulated Concrete Forms in a sealed, conditioned, crawl with WarmBoard radiant heat flooring with both solar and a water stove heating system and panelized 6” wall system with a raised heel cantilever truss roof.


• A sweet cottage in the woods that incorporates aging-in-place design and a very sophisticated home computer and whole house audio system along with a very ambitious rain-garden / rain water harvesting system with a 3,300 gallon storage capacity.


• A new variation on the Esposito design that addresses some of the potential alternative solutions that we saw in that design and incorporates Insulated Concrete Form technology to form and insulate the edge of the radiant heated concrete slab that is designed to work with solar panels on the roof and a Rinnai demand water heater to maximize the potential of each.


• A very exciting modern influenced home that incorporates a new 10” thick panelized wall system with blown-in batt fiberglass insulation system on top of an ICC edged solar heated radiant slab and a roof garden for growing tomatoes out of reach of the deer with a brick floor roof top grilling area for cooking the burgers to place those tomatoes on.

Meanwhile I’ll continue to be involved with the NAHB green Building Initiative working on the www.NAHBgreen.org on-line scoring tool and the local Green Home Builders of the triangle as well as the new 501c3 non profit Green Home Council and I’ll be speaking at the National Green Building Conference in New Orleans.

With all these exciting projects coming up this year I thought it would be a good idea to start a “Blog” to let people know what we are up to on a week by week basis please check back here from time to time and I’ll keep you updated on all our exciting new projects on the drafting table, at the job site, and in the larger green building world.