Custom Eco Home Design & Turnkey Construction
Design and build your high-performance, all-electric, net-zero home with one integrated team delivering architecture, engineering, permits, and construction, wrapped in transparent budgeting, meticulous craftsmanship, rigorous testing, and lifetime support, plus a fast, personalized, no-obligation net-zero build quote today.
Contact UsAbout Our Net-Zero Design-Build Team
We are an integrated architecture, engineering, and construction team dedicated to crafting healthy, all-electric, net-zero homes. Our collaborative process blends creativity with science, delivering transparent budgets, careful craftsmanship, rigorous testing, and personalized support from first conversation to long-term ownership.
Net-Zero Design Philosophy
We prioritize passive strategies, resilient assemblies, and human-centered spaces that harmonize comfort, beauty, and carbon reduction, aligning architecture, engineering, and budget so every decision advances measurable efficiency, durability, well-being, and long-term value without compromising your aesthetic vision or lifestyle needs.
Turnkey Construction Workflow
Our integrated design-build workflow unifies preconstruction planning, procurement, scheduling, on-site quality control, and transparent reporting, ensuring decisions remain aligned with performance goals, cost targets, and timelines while minimizing risk, change orders, and stress through one accountable team from concept through move-in.
Preconstruction Clarity
We develop detailed scopes, drawings, energy models, and specifications early, confirming costs with trade partners before mobilization. This clarity reduces surprises, enables confident value engineering, and locks schedule-critical selections, allowing you to visualize outcomes, approve budgets, and enjoy a smooth path from permitting to groundbreaking.
Transparent Procurement
We competitively source materials and trades, documenting quotes, lead times, and sustainability attributes in a clear, shareable log. You see the full picture, comparing options for cost, carbon, durability, and warranty, while our team coordinates deliveries and contingencies to protect the schedule and the bottom line.
Quality-Controlled Build
On site, supervisors manage sequencing, perform checklists, and verify tolerances across framing, envelope, mechanicals, and finishes. We conduct intermediate tests, photo-document hidden assemblies, and host client walkthroughs at milestones, catching issues early and ensuring your net-zero performance and craftsmanship benchmarks are consistently met or exceeded.
Healthy, Low-Carbon Materials
We specify low-embodied-carbon structures, responsibly sourced wood, recycled content, and verified non-toxic finishes, prioritizing third-party disclosures and certifications to safeguard indoor air, reduce lifecycle impact, and deliver resilient beauty that ages gracefully with minimal maintenance and maximized long-term value.
Embodied Carbon Accounting
Using product declarations and material databases, we compare structural systems, insulation types, and finishes to lower embodied carbon without sacrificing durability or cost. Where feasible, we substitute carbon-storing materials, leverage regional suppliers, and design for disassembly to future-proof your investment and reduce total project climate impact.
Verified Non-Toxic Interiors
We prioritize VOC-free paints, formaldehyde-free cabinetry, low-emission adhesives, and GreenGuard or equivalent certified products. Healthy material specifications, coupled with balanced ventilation and high-efficiency filtration, protect sensitive occupants, reduce odors, and create calm, comfortable spaces that feel fresh from day one and remain healthy for years.
Durability Without Compromise
Material choices pair resilience with sustainability, emphasizing robust exterior claddings, well-detailed flashing, moisture-smart assemblies, and easy-care finishes. The result is a long-lasting home that looks excellent with minimal upkeep, supporting lower lifecycle costs while maintaining aesthetic integrity across changing climates and evolving household demands.
Energy Modeling & Solar Integration
We simulate your home’s performance, refine envelope and system choices, and right-size solar and batteries to achieve verified net-zero targets, ensuring comfort, resilience, and predictable operating costs through precision modeling linked to real-world installation and commissioning.
Contact usWhole-Building Simulations
We model heating, cooling, lighting, hot water, and plug loads under local weather files, orientation, and occupancy patterns. Iterations guide tradeoffs between insulation, windows, shading, HVAC, and renewables, revealing the most cost-effective path to net-zero with robust sensitivity checks that validate assumptions and reduce risk.
PV Sizing and Orientation
Solar arrays are designed for annual load offsets, roof geometry, and shading realities, balancing string layouts, module efficiency, inverters, and warranties. We evaluate roof-mounted and ground-mounted options, net metering rules, and future expansion potential, delivering predictable production matched to your family’s evolving energy needs.
Storage and Load Management
Battery systems are sized for outage resilience and tariff optimization, coordinated with smart panels, EV charging, and flexible loads. We tune control strategies for rate schedules, critical circuits, and seasonal shifts, maximizing self-consumption and ensuring your home remains comfortable and functional when the grid is stressed.
Concept-to-Permit Net-Zero Design Package
A complete package including schematic design, energy modeling, envelope detailing, material health specifications, permit-ready drawings, and code compliance documentation. We iterate toward the most cost-effective path to net-zero, ensuring clarity for pricing, scheduling, and construction before you break ground.
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Turnkey Net-Zero Construction Management
Full-scope construction delivery with bidding, procurement, site supervision, quality control, performance testing, commissioning, and client portal reporting. We coordinate trades, manage risks, and protect your budget while building a beautiful, durable, all-electric home that achieves verified net-zero performance.
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Energy Modeling, Solar, and Battery Optimization
Detailed simulations that right-size HVAC, photovoltaic arrays, and storage for comfort, resilience, and utility savings. We analyze rate structures, shading, and expansion potential, delivering a data-backed strategy that meets your goals and integrates seamlessly with architecture and construction.
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Site & Climate Analysis
We evaluate topography, soil, solar access, winds, vegetation, water, and zoning, translating constraints into opportunities for passive gains, stormwater resilience, and long-term durability while aligning form, orientation, and landscape with your lifestyle and neighborhood context.
Budgeting & Cost Transparency
We build an itemized, reality-checked budget that ties to drawings, specs, and vendor quotes, then manage allowances, contingencies, and schedule risks with proactive updates, ensuring decisions remain transparent, financially grounded, and aligned with your priorities from first sketch to final walkthrough.
Permitting & Compliance
We navigate zoning, building codes, energy codes, and utility interconnects, coordinating reviewers and inspectors with complete, well-documented submissions that accelerate approvals while safeguarding performance targets and incentives tied to certifications and grid-connected renewable systems.
Code-Ready Documentation
We prepare coordinated architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing drawings with energy compliance worksheets, product cut sheets, and calculations. Clear, consistent documentation resolves questions early, shortens review cycles, and ensures the built home matches the approved design intent and performance expectations.
Certification Pathways
Whether pursuing Passive House, LEED for Homes, or DOE Zero Energy Ready, we map credit strategies and testing requirements into your schedule and budget. The result is credible, third-party validation of comfort, efficiency, and indoor air quality that can enhance appraisals and long-term resale value.
Utility and Solar Approvals
We handle net-metering applications, interconnection studies, and equipment submittals, coordinating with utilities to avoid delays and mismatched expectations. Our team ensures metering, disconnects, labeling, and safety protocols are correct the first time, supporting smooth commissioning and predictable energy performance from day one.
Construction Schedule & Communication
We craft a realistic, milestone-based schedule with proactive updates, weekly check-ins, and a client portal for selections, approvals, photos, and invoices, keeping process visibility high and decisions timely to protect quality, cost, and completion date.
Milestones That Matter
Key checkpoints include permit issuance, foundation completion, dried-in shell, rough-in inspections, insulation, air sealing verification, drywall, millwork, and final commissioning. Each milestone features clear acceptance criteria, ensuring the project moves forward confidently with no ambiguity about progress or next steps.
Client Portal Transparency
Your secure portal centralizes drawings, specs, schedules, selections, change requests, and payment status. Real-time updates, photos, and messages streamline communication, reduce email clutter, and allow rapid approvals, preventing small questions from becoming delays and keeping everyone focused on quality and momentum.
Change Management Discipline
When priorities shift, we quantify scope, cost, and time impacts immediately, issue documented proposals, and update schedules and budgets. This disciplined approach protects relationships and results, ensuring changes strengthen the project’s outcome without jeopardizing performance, craftsmanship, or the promised move-in date.
Performance Verification & Commissioning
We test airtightness, ducts, ventilation, and systems, then balance, calibrate, and document performance so your home delivers its promised comfort, efficiency, and health, supported by manuals, settings, and training tailored to your household’s everyday routines.
Envelope and Duct Testing
Blower door, thermal imaging, and duct leakage tests validate construction quality and design assumptions. We fix issues before finishes, protecting energy targets, indoor air quality, and resilience while providing measurable proof your home meets or exceeds code and certification requirements.
HVAC Balancing and Controls
We tune airflow, hydronic temperatures, and control strategies for even comfort and minimal energy use. Thermostats, ERV rates, heat pump setpoints, and zoning are calibrated to reduce cycling, improve humidity control, and support quiet operation that feels effortless in daily living.
Measurement and Verification
We gather baseline utility data, set up monitoring, and review early results against modeled expectations. These insights confirm performance, highlight adjustment opportunities, and give you confidence that your investment is delivering real, trackable benefits month after month and year after year.
Comprehensive Coverage
Our warranty package covers structure, systems, envelope, and workmanship based on clearly defined intervals and responsibilities. You will know whom to call, what is covered, and how claims are handled, ensuring prompt resolutions and lasting confidence in your home’s construction quality.
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Owner Training and Manuals
We provide custom guides and walkthrough training on ventilation, filtration, heat pumps, water heaters, and smart controls. Simple checklists and maintenance calendars make it easy to keep everything running efficiently, preserving comfort, health, and utility savings with minimal time and effort.
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Long-Term Service Plans
Optional service plans include seasonal tune-ups, filter replacements, software updates, and periodic performance reviews. We proactively address small issues before they grow, extending equipment life and ensuring your net-zero home continues to deliver exceptional comfort and low operating costs.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How does the free net-zero build quote work?
Share your site details, goals, preferred size, and budget range, and we will prepare a tailored preliminary scope, high-level cost range, and timeline. The quote clarifies design pathways, financing opportunities, and performance targets, helping you make decisions confidently before committing to full design services.
What makes a home truly net-zero?
A net-zero home produces as much energy annually as it uses, achieved through a super-efficient envelope, airtightness, balanced ventilation, right-sized electric systems, and solar generation. Accurate energy modeling, quality-controlled construction, and commissioning ensure the design intent translates into real, verifiable, year-round performance.
How long does turnkey construction typically take?
Timelines vary by size, complexity, and permitting, but most projects run six to ten months from groundbreaking after design and approvals. Detailed preconstruction planning, locked selections, and proactive communication help avoid delays, supporting a predictable schedule and a smooth handoff at move-in.
Will a net-zero home feel different to live in?
Yes, in positive ways. Expect quieter rooms, even temperatures, filtered fresh air, minimal drafts, and excellent humidity control. Smart ventilation and high-efficiency systems support comfort and health, while low-toxicity materials reduce odors, creating a calm, clean environment that enhances everyday well-being and sleep quality.
What do net-zero homes typically cost, and what are the savings?
Costs depend on location, finishes, and complexity, but upfront investments are offset by drastically lower utility bills and potential incentives. Over time, predictable operating costs, improved durability, and strong resale value deliver compelling total-cost-of-ownership benefits compared with conventional construction built to minimum code.
Do you build in my area and handle permits?
We serve select regions and partner with trusted local trades when appropriate. During discovery, we confirm coverage, review zoning and utilities, and outline permitting steps. Our team prepares coordinated documentation, manages submissions, and interfaces with reviewers to streamline approvals and protect your schedule and budget.