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  • Green Habitat Home 
    Reported by: Katrina Irwin

    Thursday, Sep 24, 2009 @02:40pm EDT

    It's a first for the state. This weekend a "green" habitat for humanity house will be unveiled in Rochester.

    314 Campbell Street is paving the way in green design. It's a habitat for humanity house, that keeps the environment in mind. 

    "Everything from where it is in the neighborhood and the site it was built on, all the way through to what kind of furnace it has. What kind of paint it has on the walls, how we protected the site during construction there are many, many, many features." says Bill Bartlett, the Construction Manager.

    The house is leed certified, which means it passes a strict environmental test. "It's a scoring system developed by the U.S. green building council really with the goal of providing leadership in how structures should be designed and built in the future," says John Cake, and Architect with Hunt Engineers.
     

    Some of the green features include; compact fluorescent lightbulbs, a tankless water system and soybean insulation.

    This was a joint effort done by the American Institute of Architects, and the American Council of Engineering companies.

    "Habitat homes to a great deal comply with the principles of sustainable design and construction. They're small, meant to be affordable and don't use a lot of materials and in this case, in an urban environment re-use and existing site," says Cake.

    Bartlett adds, "we hope to take this initiative, learn from it, and in the future build all the habitat houses maybe not leed certified, but certainly greener than we have been."


     Right now they are putting the finishing touches on this first green habitat house. It's going to be dedicated on saturday.


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