Preview of the "Nest" Living Building Challenge House Rendering

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Here is a preview of the "Nest" house which is registered as West Michigan's first Living Building Challenge registered project. This project will also be a LEED for Homes V4 registered project and has also been registered for Passive House and ZeroStep certification besides.
Living Building Challenge Certification require this project to be Zero Energy and Zero Water use and has a Red List of material that cannot be used in the project. Below please find some of the advanced feature of this home.

Key Features

• Rain Water Harvesting
• Gray Water & Black Water
• Passive Solar
• Solar Hot Water Heating
• Photovoltaic
• Greenhouse 
• Clay Straw Walls
• Durisol ICF Foundation
• Hydronic Heating
• Urban Farming
• Root Cellar
• More features to come as the project progresses!

Stay tune for our next blog post it will be on a preview of the "Nest" Living Building Challenge Site Rendering.

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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" "River Escape" (Stanwood, Mi.) projects are under full construction along with our "Honey Prairie" (Dexter, Mi.) project and "Joyfield Ridge"(Benzonia, Mi.) project. We also have several projects under design in Ada, Caledonia, Cascade, Glenn, Ionia and Niles

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