Green Home Building and reconstruction requires a different approach than the traditional, the way in which the structure.
Traditionally, the house, you get closer to an architect who designs homes, based on your descriptions, ideas, dreams and desires.
The design is then applied to several general contractors for bid.
The general contractor, in turn, contact its sub-contractors for their bids for the design, the roof, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, excavating and foundation, landscape, interior surfaces.
The offer prices are based on the interpretation of drawings of each contractor. In rare cases, the providers to talk to each other during the call. Rare is in contact with the architect applications. Almost never is the house, you have been contacted.
The final contractorrs offers usually include a list of exceptions and / or a "performance, which can never be used, but it is for you anyway.
Homeowner usually the lowest bid. Why not? Unless you know and the construction industry, contractors know the quality of work, what other criteria can be applied?
The above procedure often leads to significant cost increases, and sometimes unhappy home litigation.
Enormous resources are neglected and forgotten, when the houses constructed and reconstructed in the traditional way: The experience and know-how that saves time, money and headaches.
The green of the process for creating a home page
Building a green home should be a systematic approach and not as a team. The project must be based on a system in which each component is connected to and dependent on other components. For example:
– Location of the apartments on the ground, the amount of soil disturbance, excavation and landscape
– Location, size and type of windows will affect the heating and cooling requirement
– The type of heating and cooling effects will be space for the furnace, heat pumps, solar collectors, tubes, pipes, etc.
– Choice of exterior walls will have a cost impact compared to the first installation of insulation compared with the cost compared to the appearance
You get the idea
Teamwork is necessary to bring them all together. The people who design and build your house green, will work with you and with each other for weeks or months. These are some important questions to ask, to put together your team Green Building:
– Have all members of the group about the importance of green buildings that are committed to it?
– I am an architect and contractor with experience in green building, and if not, I am willing to learn? Most, if the team needs to be some 'experience in the design and construction of green houses
– Do not you like and respect? You can imagine the interaction with each of them, often through the work and, perhaps, some challenges?
– They like and respect each other?
– We are proud of high quality work?
– It 's able to accept input on its trade with other trades from?
Never underestimate the importance of your team and always work well together. E 'during the construction phase, when tempers flare, tensions are high, the pressure on. And that could only work if the insulation is doing very careful work to seal all the losses, while the electrician breathe under the neck to hurry up, its work.
It is important, because many stores as possible during the design phase. Decisions about the choice of material or the heating system can be considered by all stakeholders in a fully informed. For example:
Someone mentioned to you the benefits of the use of structurally insulated panels (SIP), and this is what you want to use for your house green. Preliminary investigations show that these agencies must be shipped hundreds of miles away. The general contractor is insulated concrete forms (ICF). The plant is only 50 kilometers away, his team is very experienced in dealing with this system, and he knows that he can do is more convenient to use SIP. Architect supports this idea because we know that the owners of insurance are sometimes lower case ICFs, by virtue of their resistance to termites, fire and wind.
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General contractors, architects and HVAC contractors to work together closely to determine if you have a green home should be solar panels or a geothermal heat pump for hot water and heat. To contact the manufacturer of wood trusses to the effects of severe solar panels on the roof will be. A call to the local geothermal heat pump specialists shows that the future of the road to install a geothermal heat pump system two years ago and I am very happy with him. With all this information, you can now make an informed decision.
When it comes time for the final cost for your construction projects green house together, you can be sure that unexpected costs will be minimal. We know that you and your team of green building are all pulling in the same direction.
Address and optimize the most important factors in the run-up with the entire team to build an easier, lower costs and a green much better at home for you and your family.