End of the Year Update!

We have been very busy the last three month of this year. Our "Glenn Retreat" project (See the picture above) is now complete and the final LEED for Homes certification paperwork is nearing completion this will be a LEED for Homes "Platinum" Project. Our projected LEED for Homes "Gold " "Turtle Lake" (Beulah, Mi.) project (Possibly a "Platinum" project now) and projected our LEED for Homes "Platinum"...

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Affordable LEED for Homes project being built by Students

A affordable Near Zero Energy, projected LEED for Homes "Platinum" project called the "Genesis Project" designed by Image Design is now under construction in Grand Rapids and will be built by Students from Grand Rapids Public Schools Academy of Design & Construction and Habitat for Humanity of Kent County. This home is a Passive Solar home and will have concrete floors and a trombe wall for Thermal...

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Turtle Lake Project is Under Construction

Our projected LEED for Homes "Gold" "Turtle Lake Project" is now under construction in Beulah, Michigan. The home is being built by Joel Harner of Let Us, Inc and the ICF foundation is being constructed by Adam Eerdmans of Turtle Wall (Good company name for our project). This home will be a Passive Solar home with Photovoltaic and Geo-Thermal heating and cooling. The home will be constructed with...

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Help Us Welcome A New Employee

Please help us welcome Ching C. Van, LEED AP to Image Design, LLC. He is a graduate from Lawrence Technological University (LTU) with a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture and is currently pursuing his Masters Degree. He will be helping us in multiple way from Drafting and Marketing to LEED Consulting. We are excited to have him working with us so next time your in of office please welcome him to our fir...

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Wealthy Heights Net-Zero Energy Home

We are proud and excited to be the designer of the Habitat for Humanity of Kent County projected LEED for Homes "Platinum" Net-Zero Energy Homes in Wealthy Heights. This will be Michigan's first Net-zero Energy Habitat home and it will be built as part of the Wealthy Heights Partnership Project. Construction could begin as soon as September or as late as March 2011 depending on the entire neighbor...

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LEED for Homes "Gold" Gut Re-Hab project completed

Just helped Habitat for Humanity of Kent County completed a LEED for Homes "Gold" Gut Re-Hab project. It was just 5 points shy of score "Platinum"certification. Please visit the Hovey Project's I would like to thank our friends at Generations Timber Frames donate the awesome Timber framed front porch (Made from recycled telephone poles) that you see in the picture above. and our friends at Apex Landscape...

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Judging EcoHome Design Awards

I am honored to have been ask to be a judge of EcoHome Magazines inaugural EcoHome Design Awards, honoring the best sustainable homes for innovative design, green building features, environmental performance, and integration with their sites and communities in the nation. I will be flying to Washington D.C. for the judging in a week and a half and I am really excited about the opportunity to be one...

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Come See Us at GreenSolutions4: GreenFest in Traverse City

If you get a chance please visit us at our booth at the GS4 Greenfest in Traverse City this Saturday. Our booth will be in the Con Foster Building and we will also be speaking on designing Grand Traverse Counties First LEED Certified Home at 12:00pm in the same building. This will be the place to connect with people, ideas, information, products and services related to green building. Get great ideas...

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Paw Paw project receives LEED for Homes "Platinum" certification

It's official we just received LEED for Homes "Platinum" Certification for the "Vineyard" project in Paw Paw, Michigan. This is the Highest highest honor you can receive from the USGBC and the third time we have achieved this honor. We want to thank the member of the Vineyard project team for project well done. Thanks goes out to Image Design LLC, Hybrid Home LLC, Andersen Window Corporation, BuildBlock,...

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Glenn Retreat Project Under Construction

We made a site visit to the Projected LEED for Homes "Platinum" Glenn Retreat Project this week and things are coming along great. We are very impressed with the construction progress and attention to detail on this project. Thumbs up goes out to Doug and Jeff from Lake Homes Builder's for all their hard work on their first LEED for Homes project. Note: you can see how the passive solar is working...

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Earth Day Special

To help celebrate Earth Day on Wednesday April 22nd Image Design, LLC will be taking $500.00 off our design fee for any new design projects that we are hired for between April 18th and April 24th 2010. We hope that you all enjoy the different Earth Day events through-out the next week."YOU MUST BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD." - Mahatma Ghan...

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Kingsley project receives LEED for Homes "Gold" Certification

It's official we just received LEED for Homes "Gold" Certification for the "Granite Hill" project in Kingsley, Michigan. This is the second highest honor you can receive from the USGBC. To our knowledge this is the first LEED certified home in Grand Traverse county. Congratulation goes out to Frontier Construction this is their first LEED for Homes project they have completed, hopefully we can help...

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"Granite Hill" Project Wins Two National Awards

Today we found out the "Granite Hill" in Kingsley , Michigan won two national awards from the ICFA (Insulating Concrete Form Association). The 2009 ICFA Excellence Award is the premier industry recognition for the most innovative and noteworthy ICF projects of the year. We are proud that BuildBlock our ICF supplier believed in our project so much that they entered us it these prestigious awards....

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"Vineyard" Project Wins Two National Awards

Today we found out the "Vineyard Project" in Paw Paw , Michigan won two national awards from the ICFA (Insulating Concrete Form Association). The 2009 ICFA Excellence Award is the premier industry recognition for the most innovative and noteworthy ICF projects of the year. We are proud that BuildBlock our ICF supplier believed in our project so much that they entered us it these prestigious awards....

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Grand Traverse Green 2010

If you get a chance I will be speaking at Grand Traverse Green 2010 Conference in Traverse City Michigan on Saturday February 6th from 10:00am to 11:30am at the Hagerty Center. We were invite by the Grand Traverse Home Builders Association to speak at this conference. Traverse City  Home Builders Association (HBAGTA) and Traverse Area Association of Realtors (TAAR) are both Pioneers...

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