Eco-Friendly Architects Combine Green Design Principles with Their Home Designs

Eco-Friendly Architects develop Green Home Design strategies that save on your monthly power bills.

These architectural features result in energy efficient house plans and luxury houses that sip energy.  Rand Soellner Architect is among the leading green home architects in this movement of custom home architects and eco-friendly architects whose dream home designs exceed Energy Star Partner recommendations.

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When eco-friendly architects are designing your house, one of the things all residential designers should keep in mind is Green Design.  This not only results in a more energy efficient home design, it decreases your power bills and if Healthy Home Design (a trademarked program by Rand Soellner Architect) is followed, the very air you breathe in your custom home will be cleaner and safer for your family. 

Luxury Residential Designers Become Eco-Friendly Architects When They Develop Energy Efficient Home Designs

Rand Soellner home architects specify Energy Recovery Units (ERUs) as options to the basic HVAC systems of his homes, so that heat exchangers can recycle the energy normally lost to heat gain.  Eco-friendly architects at Soellner also indicate HVAC condensors having an SEER of around 19, which exceeds Energy Code and Energy Star home design recommendations.  These eco-friendly architects use electronic filters on his AHUs (Air Handling Units) to result in more efficient and complete clean air filtration without any paper filters that standard homes today utilize.  “Parents who have kids with asthma and other respiratory issues really appreciate having cleaner air to breathe,” said Soellner, “Having a healthy home design is just one subset of the whole Green Home Architects – Green Design movement, which is also part of Sustainable Home Architecture, which also addresses recyling and reducing energy consumption.” 

Timber Frame Architecture Combines with Custom Home Design & Eco-Friendly Architects

Luxury house design and custom home architecture, log home architects, timber frame design and post and beam are not terms one might normally link to Green Design and Eco-friendly architects.  They can be combined to result in homes with strong appeal and aesthetics that harmonize with the mountains, lakes, waterfalls and even the trees in suburbia, AND still be energy efficient home designs and healthy homes.  Timber frame houses can have higher insulation levels, depending on the type of structural systems used for the roof and walls.  It is a misperception, we believe, that SIPs, for instance, create the best value.  Structural Insulated Panel = SIP.  SIPs a typically composed of 15/32″ OSB (Oriented Strand Board). bonded to a core of EPS (Expanded PolyStyrene insulation), with another layer of OSB.  It forms a structural sandwich that is capable of spanning 24′ +/-, depending on thickness and width, and optional internal splines and ssupport members underneath the panels.  Personally, we feel that SIPs can work very well for roofs, particularly when used over timber frame roof members.  That does not mean that is what we feel is the preferred Home Value Engineering arrangement.  You may wish to see our Home Value Engineering pages for detailed studies of optional systems.  Walls, in our opinion, are probably better as prefabricated stud wall contruction, as greater flexibility can be obtained here for field corrections for electrical, plumbing and HVAC runs.  We evaluate every design to decide on what is best for a client’s budget and environmental parameters.

Jackson Hole WY Designers, Cashiers NC Architects and  Brevard NC Architects Can Still be Eco-Friendly Architects

It’s true.  Whether your new house is being designed by Atlanta home architects, Big Sky designers,  or a Denver professional, you can benefit from them also being eco-friendly architects.  Your pocketbook and lungs will thank you.  We provide luxury residential design services in a multitude of places throughout the United States and the World. 

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Contact Information for eco-friendly architects:
Rand Soellner Architect
Rand Soellner, AIA/NCARB
Website: www.HomeArchitects.com
E-mail: randsoellner@earthlink (dot) net

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GREEN HOME DESIGN UNIVERSITY QUESTIONS, for those of you taking Rand Soellner Architect’s course of green instruction:  about the above subject:

1.  Eco-friendly architects specify what?
     a.  ERUs (Energy Recover Units) to improve HVAC system performance.
     b.  Large vehicles.    
     c.  Oil-fired furnaces.

2.  What is the SEER rating of air-conditioning condensors exceeding Energy Code levels?
    a.  19.
    b.  5.     
    c.  12.

3.  What kind of filters on air handling units can make the air in your home much cleaner to breathe?
   a.  Paper.       
   b.  Electronic.
   c.  Plastic.

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answers:
1. a., 2. a., 3. b.
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