One standard, tested on every home we build. Then as far as you want to go.
Every home we build starts from the same baseline: sealed tight and tested, fresh air all day, heat pumps, all-electric, ready for solar. From there you choose how far to take it, up to battery backup, net zero and Phius certification. We decide it together, and you see the budget before you sign.
The standard, in plain words.
Every home we build gets these six things, and you see them in writing before you sign. After the blower-door test, you get the number in writing.
Modeled before we build
Before the first shovel, your house exists as a model.
We model how it will use energy, where the sun falls through the year, and how the systems fit. Your budget comes from the same model, so the two agree.
Sealed tight, and tested to prove it
Every home we build is sealed tight and then tested by an independent blower-door test. You get the number in writing.
Air leaks are where heat, noise and dust get in. We seal the house as a whole, and an independent tester measures how tight it is before you move in.
Fresh-air ventilation
A tight house needs good air. Every home we build brings it in on purpose.
Ventilation runs all day, outside air in and stale air out, whatever the weather. You don't have to open a window in January to get fresh air.
Heat pumps, all-electric
Heating and cooling from heat pumps. Hot water and cooking electric too. No oil tank, no gas line.
One kind of energy in the house, and nothing burning inside it. An all-electric home is also the one that can run on its own solar later.
Ready for solar
Planned for panels from the first drawing, whether you add them now or later.
The roof, the wiring and the electrical panel are laid out for solar, so adding it later is a straightforward job. Solar itself, and a battery, are choices you make below.
The handover binder
Your house, documented: the 3D scan, the test result, the manuals, the model.
Every home will get a 3D scan of every wall before the drywall goes up, so you have a virtual twin of your house, and a handover binder with a digital copy of everything. The binder will hold the blower-door result, the manuals for every system and the model of your house. It is yours to keep, and to hand to the next owner.
What a blower-door test tells you about a house.
One number, measured on the finished house, that says how tight it is.
A third-party tester closes up the house, fits a calibrated fan into a doorway, and pulls air out. The gauge shows how much air leaks back in through the gaps. Less leakage means less heat lost, fewer drafts, less dust and pollen, and quieter rooms.
How far do you want to go?
Everything above comes with every home. Everything below is a choice: decided together, modeled first, and budgeted line by line before you sign.
A deeper envelope
Thicker, better-insulated walls and roof, and better windows. The house needs less to begin with.
Less heat in during summer, less heat out in winter: smaller equipment, steadier rooms, lower bills. Every other choice on this page goes further when the house starts from here.
Solar with battery backup
Make your own power, and keep the essentials running when the grid goes down.
Panels sized to the house and the site, and a battery that carries the essential circuits through an outage on its own, with no generator to start and no fuel to store. More on how the pieces fit below.
Net zero
A home that makes as much energy across a year as it uses.
Whether yours can get there depends on your site's sun and the size of the array it can hold. We model it before you commit, and if the lot won't take you all the way, we tell you how close it gets.
A connected home, done properly
Wired, not gadgets: one quiet, reliable network with proper access points.
The lighting and the systems still work without an app.
Phius certification
The top of the range: a home built to the Phius standard and certified by Phius.
Phius is a passive building standard with its own certification. A third party reviews the design, the construction and the test, and issues the certificate, so the result is checked by someone other than us. Not every lot or every budget calls for it, and we will say so.
Working with an architect? We will build what they drew, with an energy model, an independent blower-door test, and no quiet swaps in value engineering. For architects and plan holders →
How a home gets to net zero, and what it depends on.
Net zero is what happens when a house needs very little, makes its own power, and stores what it doesn't use. Whether a home gets all the way there depends on your site's sun and the size of the array it can hold. Here is how the pieces fit.
Solar
Power made on site, in the form your house and your lot call for.
We size and place solar to the house: on the roof where the planes face the right way, on the ground where the land allows, or as solar shingles where a clean roofline matters most. How much the array can make depends on your site's sun, which is why we model it before you commit.
Battery storage
The day's sun, banked for the evening and for the night the power goes out.
A battery holds what the panels make and you don't use, and carries the essential circuits through an outage on its own. No generator to start, no fuel to store. We size it to how your household actually lives.
All-electric, wired for what comes next
One clean electrical backbone, planned from the first drawing.
Heating, cooling, hot water, cooking and car charging all run on electricity, with the loads of today and the ones coming next already planned for. The circuits are laid out so solar, the battery and the grid hand off cleanly, and so the house is ready for an electric car on day one rather than adapted for one later.
Geothermal, on the right lot
Heating and cooling from the steady temperature below ground.
On the right lot, a ground-source heat pump trades heat with the steady temperature below the surface: efficient, quiet, and out of sight. We look at it home by home and suggest it only where the ground and the budget make it the right long-term choice.
Each piece works on its own. Designed and set up together, they make a home that can stay comfortable through a heat wave, warm through a cold snap, and keep running when the street goes dark. How far you take it is your call.
Start a conversation.
Tell us about your land, your timing and what matters most to you. It takes about two minutes. Alex and Matt read every note and reply personally.