Tips for Making Homes Easier to Live in Longer
Here are some tips for making your home more accessible and safer if you plan on living in your home into retirement. It can also be useful if you are …
Ridgefield “Net-Zero” House Powered Fully by the Sun
Ridgefield “Net-Zero” House Powered Fully by the Sun NewsTimes, Feburary 23, 2017 This article about a sustainable Net0-Zero Energy home built by BPC Green Builders and designed by Trillium Architects …
Passive Housing Trend Gaining Momentum in Fairfield County
/wp-content/uploads/exterior-Rear2-EDITED-and-cropped-for-poster-1024×678.jpg Passive Housing Trend Gaining Momentum in Fairfield County The article below is about a BPC Green Builders Net Zero Energy home built in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The article’s title suggests …
How To Make Your Bathroom More Eco-Friendly
What do you think of when you hear “green home?” For most people, it’s energy efficiency. For others, it’s eco-friendly building materials. Unless you live in a severely drought-stressed area, …
BPC Earns USGBC LEED Homes Award for 2015 “Outstanding Single-Family Project”
June 2016 Front View On June 28, 2016 the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced that the single family Taft School Faculty Home, which BPC Green Builders built and Trillium …
Modern Breed
Modern Breed Ridgefield Magazine, November/December 2015 This article is about a home BPC Green Builders built in Ridgefield, Connecticut begins: ““A HOUSE IS NOT JUST WHAT YOU WANT BUT WHAT THE …
BPC Green Builders Wins US DOE 2015 Housing Innovation Award Grand Prize
BPC Green Builders won the overall Grand Prize in the 2015 Housing Innovation Awards from The US Department of Energy for “Custom Innovation on the Path to Zero Net-Energy Ready …
A Personal Journey: Building My Own Passive House (part 11)
The rear exterior of my Passive House Those of you who have hung with me through this extended series of blogs now have a pretty good idea about how a …
A Personal Journey: Building My Own Passive House (part 10)
This is an energy recovery ventilator which runs 24/7/365 to bring fresh air into the house while recovering the energy in the air to essentially pre-heat the fresh air. It …
A Personal Journey: Building My Own Passive House (part 9)
In my previous blogs, I’ve written about how the foundation, walls, and roof of my house are built using familiar American construction materials; but they are framed, air-sealed, and insulated …
A Personal Journey: Building My Own Passive House (part 8)
Let me answer the rhetorical question I asked at the end of part 7 of this series. Why does the triple glazing (three separate panes of glass) in most European …
Is Green Building Too Expensive?
Is Green Building Too Expensive? By Kevin Ireton Editor, Fine Homebuilding My wife and I decided not to have children. We just couldn’t make the numbers work. From prenatal care …
