Zero Energy Ready Coastal Modern

This certified Zero Energy Ready Home* has four-bedrooms, four bathrooms and is in a private community on the Guilford, Connecticut coast. The home is the new residence of a young couple and child relocating from a downtown apartment in New Haven, Connecticut, who wanted a new home green, sustainable, and healthy home to raise their child.

*This home has a small photovoltaic solar panel system. With additional solar panels, this home can achieve Net Zero Energy Home and even Positive Energy Home performance.

Type: New Construction, Custom Green Home

Special Features

Open plan layout on the main floor with gourmet center island kitchen
Large windows at southern exposure capturing expansive water views and solar gain
10’ ceilings on 1^st floor and 9’ on 2^nd floor with white oak flooring throughout
Custom white oak waterfall staircase with stainless steel railing
Walnut wrap-around feature wall enclosing HVAC equipment system below the staircase
Extensive landscaping blending the home into the rock ledge the house was built upon

Green Building Approaches

2 kW translucent trellis mounted photovoltaic solar array offsetting the homes power needs
- The home has space for roof-mounted solar panels that could easily bring to home to Net Zero Energy use or even Positive Energy
1^st Floor system features double subfloor installed on 12” open web trusses over 6” of EPS rigid foamboard (R-24) over compacted crushed stone
2×8 framed walls insulated with dense-pack cellulose and sheathed with 2.5” continuous Zip R sheathing (R-36)
Flat roof consisting of 12” open web trusses filled with dense-pack cellulose, covered with continuous tapered polyisocyanurate above the sheathing (R-65)
Acrylic sheathing tapes used at all sheathing intersections to achieve exceptional airtightness of 0.7 ACH50
Orientation/design optimizes passive wintertime solar energy gains while limiting summertime gains
Polish triple-glazed aluminum-clad doors and tilt/turn windows with u-values of 0.15 (roughly R-6.5)
Ducted air-source heat pump system heats and cools the entire house
High-efficiency CO2 based split heat pump domestic hot water heater provides domestic hot water
Independent ducted ventilation system with energy recovery
100% LED lighting throughout
Low-flow water fixtures throughout