About
The GO Logic look is an understated rural modernism that draws from the proud, practical New England vernacular and makes itself at home in a wide variety of settings. Our GO Home portfolio ranges from a 600-square-foot, single-bedroom cottage to a 2,300-square-foot, four-bedroom family home. Every GO Logic design is optimized for comfortable, open-plan living, easy care, and low operating cost, and any plan can be tailored to suit your site and preferences. If your requirements call for a completely individualized approach, contact us to learn about our custom architectural services. We will be pleased to apply the same refined GO Logic aesthetic in creating a fully resolved design that is unique to you.
The heart of every GO Logic home is a superinsulated, air-sealed building shell designed to use 80 percent less energy than a conventional new house, even in the chilly Northeast. A highly efficient energy-recovery ventilation system delivers a continuous supply of fresh, tempered outdoor air to every room, ensuring optimal comfort and health. On sites with favorable solar exposure, adding a modest array of photovoltaic panels yields a zero-energy home.
Every GO Logic project includes a prefabricated and panelized shell assembly built in our climate-controlled shop. Our process, based on a small-team model pioneered in Sweden, allows us to execute precise, airtight building details more efficiently and economically than conventional methods. The finished building panels are delivered to your site and quickly craned into place on a super-insulated foundation of our own patented design. Your house will be finished to our exacting standards and move-in ready in substantially less time than a conventional custom home.
Environmental mission and strategy (ESG)
At GO Logic, we follow the Passive House approach: We create an airtight building shell superinsulated to R35 at the foundation, R50 at the walls, and R80 at the roof. We specify ultra-high-performance windows and doors and locate them where they’ll collect free heat from the sun. And we install a heat-recovery ventilation system that delivers a constant flow of fresh air while capturing 80 percent of the heat in the air it exhausts to the outdoors. Our houses use 10 percent of the energy consumed by a conventional code-compliant house, while offering a healthier, more comfortable living environment.
Passive House design allocates resources differently from conventional construction—investing more in the building shell and less in mechanical equipment—but it need not cost more up front, and it yields a positive return over the life of the building. A single-family home built this way can be heated on the coldest winter day with the equivalent of a hairdryer. That translates to smaller, less expensive heating and cooling systems, and lower operating costs.
And while Passive House principles underlie everything we do, we’re always looking for ways to improve on how we put them into practice. We pioneered factory prefabrication of Passive House building components—and entire buildings. We’ve developed and patented economical systems for building superinsulated foundations and wall assemblies. We import triple-glazed German windows that outperform any made in North America. We’re constantly refining our systems for low maintenance and durability, further reducing life-cycle costs.
The result is a house that performs at the highest level—predictably, dependably, and cost-effectively. GO Logic has designed and built 112,000 square feet of buildings that perform at least ten times better than required by code. It’s the only way we build. Given everything we know, it’s the only way that makes sense.
