We don’t currently have plans we can offer unfortunately. There are Passive House and LEED certified prefab kit homes available that may meet your needs, other than that we would recommend you look through our building guide pages to learn high performance building techniques.
An ‘Eco Home’ could take many different forms, but they would share a few common threads. You could therefore look at home plans online for inspiration, then once you have a general design you find appealing, you could then green home building techniques to that design. We would recommend you first start with determining exactly how much space you need. In general, smaller homes use less resources and less energy than large ones, so the smaller you can build the better.
Here is link to our Green Home Building Guide, the Ecohome planning and design page is a great place to start, and as you get further into you planning please feel free to check back with us and post a more specific question in our advice column and maybe we can help guide you further.
I have an existing double car garage (18' wide x 25' deep). I'm interested in replacing it with a pre-fab garage with an apartment on the second floor. Are there any pre-fab designs that would match this idea? Kitchener, Ontario.
We hope to have climate specific prefab eco kit homes available all across the states in the near future, but we aren't ready with them yet, sorry! Over the next year we should have some partnerships in place to help meet the demand for prefab kit houses.
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We don’t currently have plans we can offer unfortunately. There are Passive House and LEED certified prefab kit homes available that may meet your needs, other than that we would recommend you look through our building guide pages to learn high performance building techniques.
An ‘Eco Home’ could take many different forms, but they would share a few common threads. You could therefore look at home plans online for inspiration, then once you have a general design you find appealing, you could then green home building techniques to that design. We would recommend you first start with determining exactly how much space you need. In general, smaller homes use less resources and less energy than large ones, so the smaller you can build the better.
And choose your materials carefully – natural insulation materials and non-toxic building materials protect indoor air quality, and will usually pollute less during manufacturing. A green home would be an energy efficient home, so be sure to have a well-insulated building envelope.
Here is link to our Green Home Building Guide, the Ecohome planning and design page is a great place to start, and as you get further into you planning please feel free to check back with us and post a more specific question in our advice column and maybe we can help guide you further.
I have an existing double car garage (18' wide x 25' deep). I'm interested in replacing it with a pre-fab garage with an apartment on the second floor. Are there any pre-fab designs that would match this idea? Kitchener, Ontario.
Hi Pete, none of the designs we currently have are for a garage with an apartment on top. Sorry about that!
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We hope to have climate specific prefab eco kit homes available all across the states in the near future, but we aren't ready with them yet, sorry! Over the next year we should have some partnerships in place to help meet the demand for prefab kit houses.