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1999 Built Green Award WinnersThe Built Green Colorado Program recently recognized member builders who have made significant contributions to the Built Green Program over the last year. Awards fell into several categories recognizing outstanding homes, builders and individuals. There were two winners in the Built Green Home of the Year category; together they illustrate the range of achievement that can be accomplished in building green. Northeast Denver Housing Center was awarded Home of the Year for their Clermont Residence, a unique Built Green Home that serves as an example that "green" building practices can be effectively incorporated into affordable housing. The beautiful home aesthetically complements its northeast Denver neighborhood, but is a highly efficient and earth-friendly home. Built Green elements include a 5-star energy rating, the use of insulated concrete forms which provide an R-19 insulation value, recycled PET carpet and a 600-watt grid-tied photovoltaic solar energy system. Laureate Homes, a division of U.S. Homes, was also given the Built Green Home of the Year award for their entry in the 1999 Parade of Homes at the Broadlands. The Laureate is an Old World-style luxury home that was rated most energy-efficient home at the Parade. Energy and resource efficiency factored into every decision made in the planning and building of The Laureate. The house features blown in cellulose insulation, top of the line windows, a hot water circulation pump and engineered lumber framing materials. The Laureate is a stunningly beautiful home with 20-foot high ceilings and an entire wall of windows. But, as Megan Edmunds of E-Star Colorado, points out, the window-to-floor ratio in the home was just 11 percent. "Windows were strategically placed," says Edmunds, whose organization presented The Laureate with their Energy Excellence award. Built Green Builder of the Year award went to Genesee Company. In 1999, the Genesee Company registered about 165 E-Star Certified Built Green Homes and currently is the largest homebuilder in Colorado to provide a home-energy rating with every home it builds. The company decided to take this extra step to give its homebuyers additional value and assurance that every Genesee home is environmentally and structurally sound. This distinction is particularly important to Genesee homeowners because it ensures that their home will be more energy efficient and more affordable due to lower operating and maintenance costs. Genesee homes feature formaldehyde-free wall insulation, engineered wood products and only domestic products to aid in the preservation of tropical rain forests. The Built Green Custom Builder of the Year award went to Wonderland Custom Builders. Wonderland Custom Builders was the first to receive the Built Green Home Builder of the Year award in 1997. This year the company completed an award-winning entry at the 1999 Parade of Homes at the Broadlands which was designed in cooperation with the Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings (CARB), part of the Building America Initiative. This house has an unvented crawlspace, an innovation that led to changes in the building code in Broomfield. The exterior walls of the home were constructed using Structurally Insulated Panels (SIPS), recycled lumber was featured as interior beams and the furnace, water heater and heating design of the home were developed to achieve maximum efficiency. Finally, this house was designed as a "not so big" house, to maximize the ratio of living space to floor area, eliminating excessive large-volume areas that rob a home of energy efficiency. Wonderland Custom Builders is also involved in the Highlands Garden Village project, the development that is going up on the old Elitch's site. An example of "new urbanism", the old park is being transformed into a mix of single-and multi-family homes, housing for the elderly, offices and retail. "An atmosphere in which people can live and work and play in close proximity," says developer Chuck Perry. Each of these smaller homes is also built in compliance with the Build Green checklist. |
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2008 Built Green Colorado
Home Builders Association of Metro Denver, 9033 E. Easter Place, Suite 200,
Centennial, CO 80112 Last Updated: 04/10/2004 |