Timber Frame Facts

Duke Energy in North Carolina offers a discounted electric rate to homes that meet Energy Star requirements.  The homes must be inspected by a third-party inspector, but the 5% savings makes it an affordable option.

The savings, when coupled with the reduced energy cost to maintain a home that meets or exceeds the requirements, are significant.

There are lots of incentives for building an energy efficient home.   We’ll outline some of them in coming weeks.  Stay tuned.

Green Building, in it’s new and sometimes abused persona, is not really a new concept.  It has always been important to use resources wisely, to build with the materials at hand, and to conserve energy.  New technology has helped us to achieve some of these goals, but if we look back, we see that many before us have built green, without all the hype.  Adobe homes protected Native Americans in the Southwest from sweltering heat, wattle and daub homes used materials at hand to build shelters, skyscrapers built in the late 1800′s made use of urban space.  So while architects, designers, and builders today would like to take credit for this movement, they are truly just making the public more aware of the importance of building green