Green Building Advisor (GBA) just posted a deep dive on our soon-to-be-completed project in western Connecticut, and we’re really pleased with the coverage. GBA is a website where a lot of design and construction professionals learn about new technology and building practices, whether they live up to the hype, and how to incorporate them into their own work.
Our Connecticut project incorporates several groundbreaking technologies, including a virtually all-wood Passive House building shell—comprised of prefabricated cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels with wood fiber insulation—and our first Tesla Solar Roof.
GBA does a great job of explaining those new technologies, the logistical challenges of applying them for the first time in a small but complex building, and the outcome: an architecturally uncompromising house that is net-positive for operational energy and sequesters so much carbon in its wood structure that it will “pay back” over its lifespan the carbon emissions associated with its construction.
As a bonus, GBA provides a progress report on our sister company GO Lab’s landmark initiative to produce wood fiber insulation for the first time in North America.
