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Chanen Estate Homes
can incorporate green building principles in the design and construction of your custom home or estate, with the goal of making a minimal impact on the natural environment and the greatest impact on human health and well-being, working in concert with you and the design team.
- Low voltage lights
- Recycled steel beams
- Spray-on foam insulation to insulate and provide natural barrier pest control
- High-efficiency cooling systems
- Recycling of unused building materials
- Energy Star appliances
- Skylights for natural daylight
- Window coatings to reflect heat
- Implementation of solar panels
- Steel frame (instead of wood) to preserve natural resources; resist rust, rot and termites; steel will not warp, twist or split and is up to 50 percent lighter than wood
- Outdoor air filtration
- High efficiency irrigation systems
- Distribution of project management materials electronically to prevent paper waste
Chanen utilizes an integrated, synergistic approach to follow the lead of our clients in the decision to implement sustainable features.
Sustainability for Lot Design, Preparation, and Development
Preservation of native landscaping with significant efforts made to reduce site impacts to only the immediate area of building construction. We work to have a landscape plan that seeks to cause the least possible disturbance to the site, while enhancing your enjoyment of and connection to the natural beauty and richness of the land to yield greater appreciation of nature and the outdoors in general. In order to be a good neighbor, outdoor lighting can be designed to minimize the amount of light leaving the site. We can work with your architect and landscape architect to use existing vegetation to shade all new driveways and pathways, structures, thereby minimizing heat buildup and energy consumption.
Energy Strategies
Chanen can lead work sessions with the design team to maximize natural ventilation and strategic placement of windows to allow light and create views without admitting unwanted heat or cold. The use of high performance windows help reduce the transmission of unwanted heat and cold.
Recycled Building Materials
We can help find a wide array of building materials that contain recycled content, such wall and roof insulation with at least 30% post-consumer recycled content and gypsum wall board with up to 95% recycled content. Also by using durable building materials such as steel and concrete, maintenance requirements are reduced which consequently minimize energy, chemical, and resource consumption.
Your Indoor Air Quality
We will work with the design team to find building materials that have no or low emissions of harmful gasses. Cheaper wood products such as particleboard, plywood, fiberboard and other pressed woods contain significant amounts of formaldehyde. While these products are cost-efficient for low-cost production homes, there are better choices for luxury custom homes. Chanen Estate Homes works with masonry, steel, concrete and hardwoods to assure a lasting, natural and healthy home.
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