GO Logic + Houzz
Have you seen our Houzz profile? We just added photos of the Jung Haus project to our page! While the GO Home is steadily becoming an icon for energy-efficient, passive house standard homes in the US, it has also been featured in four articles on the Houzz site: The 70’s Are Back. Can Ya Dig… Read more »
Cobscook Bay House Update
Construction is in full swing on the Cobscook Bay House and we are happy to share the progress! Thanks for all the great work by Robinson Home Improvement. Foundation completion First Floor Framing Nearing Completion of First Floor Framing photos by client You can read more blog posts about the Cobscook Bay House here.
Cove End in Maine Home + Design
The feature article from the cover of Maine Home + Design’s July issue, “Clapboard Contemporary”, about our Cove End project, is now available on the Maine Home + Design website. You can read it here, and please let us know what you think of the project!
On The Boards: Warren Woods Ecology Field Station
Throughout the spring we’ve been working on an exciting new Passive House project with the University of Chicago, the Warren Woods Ecology Field Station. In 2010, the University purchased a property consisting largely of 10,000 year-old dunes in rural, Southwest Michigan. The site consists of mature beach-maple forested ravines and open wet prairie – a… Read more »
Passive House and Permaculture
The definitions of each of these terms are appropriately long and complicated. The essence of the matter is that these are design approaches that aim to transform human impact on the environment into a system that cares for the earth and all of it’s inhabitants equally. Passive House is a specific goal of energy use reduction in… Read more »
Hayfield House
We are enjoying reading the Hayfield House blog, created by our clients and detailing the construction progress of their 2,100 square foot Connecticut home, on track to be passive house certified. You can visit the blog, and follow along with the construction process as well! perspective rendering by GO Logic, color added by client You… Read more »
Cobscook Bay House Groundbreaking
We are happy to announce the groundbreaking for one of our newest passive house standard projects, Cobscook Bay House! Please look for additional updates from us in the coming weeks and months. You can also follow along on the homeowners beautiful blog, documenting the construction process as well as the native wildlife of Cobscook Bay…. Read more »
Maine Home + Design
GO Logic is honored to have our Cove End project featured on the cover of Maine Home + Design’s July issue! This home for a retired couple, set on the Maine coast of family vacations past, serves as a summer destination for children, grandchildren and extended family. With 2,000 square feet, three bedrooms and two and… Read more »
Jung Haus Construction Completed!
We are very pleased to announce the completion of the Jung residence! Design for the Jung Haus, a 2,300 square-foot, single-family residence with a detached garage and apartment, began about a year ago in Oakland County, Michigan. The home has been designed to meet the Passive House standard, and is on track to become the… Read more »
The GO Home Feature on Houzz
We are so very pleased that the GO Home was featured on Houzz last week! In the article, Houzz’s Mitchell Parker discusses the benefits of a passive house with the GO Home’s resident, and GO Logic Project Architect, Riley Pratt. Please visit our profile on Houzz, and read Houzz Tour: See a Maine House with… Read more »
Build Like This: A Simple Approach to Building a Super-efficient House
This month GO Logic is featured on the cover of Fine Homebuilding Magazine’s special winter issue focusing on Energy Smart Homes. GO Logic’s 1,000-square foot, one-bedroom, two-bath residence, House on a Knoll, in Bath, Maine – completed back in 2011 – was among the homes featured in the publication. The article discusses six key elements to… Read more »
Update: Inaugural Midwest Project Nears Completion
GO Logic’s first-ever project in Michigan is nearing completion. Its location isn’t the only unique aspect of this project as the design itself also represents something of a departure from the norm that has been established with other recent GO Logic projects. The house (which is on target to be Passive House certified in 2013), for example, includes a full basement and exterior walls formed in traditional Larsen Truss fashion.
WKAR Public Radio News Story on GO Logic’s Michigan Passive House
GO Logic has designed a home that is on track to be the first certified Passive House in Michigan. The local contractor partner Michael Klinger and the home owners speak with Mike Bashore of WKAR about the experience and advantages of building a passive house in Michigan. “Lansing Home Builder Pushes Green Envelope” “Only two… Read more »
Funding Not-For-Profits With Insulation
Naturally, funding for not-for-profit foundations in a slow economy is not readily available. Many foundations have taken on aging academic and municipal buildings as a solution to getting up and running without incurring the high costs of a constructing a building of their own only to discover the ongoing maintenance and repair of an aging building is relentless and the cost of heating and cooling the building is astronomical. For organizations operating on very limited facilities budgets, building performance concerns can hamstring all other operations. Interestingly, as evidenced through our work with a local arts foundation in Belfast, Maine, spending money on renovating older structures could be the silver bullet for cash-strapped not-for-profits.
Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage Hits Major Milestone
This July, six residents of our Belfast Cohousing project began moving into their homes. Twenty-seven of the thirty-six units have been purchased, and three duplexes and one triplex have so far been completed. We’re on track to complete another six units by year’s end.