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In a previous post about the Bishop Passive House now being constructed here on the Central Coast of California, I evaluated the home against the first 7 of 14 tenets for low carbon homes as outlined by Mike Maines and Brian Hayes in a November, 2019 article on the Green Building Advisor website.
In late 2019 - which seems like a lifetime ago already - Michael Maines and Brian Hayes teamed up for a bird’s-eye view article around designing and constructing low carbon homes, written by Kiley Jacques on the Green Building Advisor website. Widely respected New England design-builders, they acknowledged lacking all the answers, yet simultaneously laid out fourteen imperative and easily-achievable tenets for low carbon home design and construction.
The elements of a dream house are shared by many: year-round, all-hours comfort, healthy indoor air quality, minimized mechanical operating systems and reduced energy use intensity, and perhaps most importantly, a durable, resilient, low-maintenance, aesthetically beautiful home.
A lot of our work at In Balance Green Consulting centers around sustainability. With a rapidly changing climate and the onset of a global pandemic, lately we’ve been feeling we also need to incorporate resiliency into our framework.
