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August 8, 2017
BrightBuilt Home and Island Carpentry: Delivering You Beautiful and Affordable Zero Energy HomesIsland Carpentry is currently partnered with BrightBuilt Home for our net zero energy home at Kelsey Brook in Freeport, Maine. BrightBuilt Home was founded by award-winning Kaplan Thompson Architects with the mission of providing state of the art, healthy, low-energy, affordable homes. Our project at Kelsey Brook utilizes BrightBuilt’s modular home design. These the […] Read More
July 21, 2017
An Overview of Zero Energy Homes: Why Island Carpentry Chooses Green Building StandardsOverview of Zero Energy Building Wouldn’t it be great to save hundreds or thousands on energy bills while also helping to save the planet? Those are two main incentives for choosing a zero energy home. Island Carpentry has been building zero energy homes for twelve years, but this style of building is still just catching […] Read More
February 6, 2016
Australia should follow Obama’s solar SunShotThe US government has announced a US$36 million program to develop technologies that turn solar PV and storage batteries into a new kind of decentralised, virtual power source which some are calling ‘the internet of energy’. This is just the kind of technological shift that excites Australia’s new Prime Minister Malcolm and terrified his predecessor, […] Read More
November 4, 2015
Energy Efficient Housing for Maine Senior CitizensYesterday, Maine citizens voted to pass Question Two: The Senior Affordable Housing Bond: The Senior Affordable Housing Bond authorizes the sale of $15 million in general obligation bonds, to be used in combination with more than $22 million in leveraged funds, for the construction of approximately 225 affordable, highly energy efficient homes for Maine’s seniors […] Read More
October 19, 2015
Solar Power and Affordable HousingSometimes new technologies are first available exclusively to the wealthiest. It looks like in the case of solar we may have a different ballgame. This past summer, the Obama Administration declared measures to promote solar power for low income housing. The government intends to connect local housing authorities to over $520 million in capital from […] Read More
August 20, 2015
Rise and Shine, Maine: It’s Time to SolarizeWelcome to the age of renewable energy and collaboration. Six years ago in 2009, a group of citizens in Portland, Oregon began a community collaborative program that brings homeowners and businesses together to purchase solar energy installations for buildings in bulk deals that lowers the price per household or business. They called their program Solarize. […] Read More
July 28, 2015
HERS Rating Freeport ProjectDec 14 Hi Mike: Attached please find the Final HERS Report for the Humphrey Residence in Freeport. Of the 1,000 plus new HERS Rated homes I have evaluated over the years, this home is clearly in the very small group of truly high performance homes. As we discussed, even though this home did not qualify for the […] Read More
July 25, 2015
Zero Energy Home Newcastle, MaineOur latest zero energy home project is underway in Newcastle. The home is being built for Nick and Sandra Barth. It is a 1900 square foot single story home with an attached two car garage. What separates this homes from others in the neighborhood is that the Barth’s will never have energy bills. The house […] Read More
August 13, 2014
Zero Energy Home ProjectThis is an Energy Independent Cape that we built at the Kelsey Brook subdivision in Freeport, ME. It is a zero energy home entirely producing its own electricity via solar panels on the roof. OUR UNIQUE WALL FRAMING SYSTEM We designed the framing system you can see revealed in this first floor bedroom wall.Our […] Read More
July 14, 2013
Energy Efficient HomesElectricity produced from the sun is a key component of our program to build healthy energy efficient and zero energy homes. The cost of solar electricity has dropped to a point that it is affordable and if combined with high tech energy efficient building practices can create energy independence for the home owner. From what […] Read More |