{"id":2,"date":"2014-10-22T18:52:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erict15.sg-host.com\/2014-10-22-tc-legend-homes-grand-winner-of-prestigious-housing-award\/"},"modified":"2020-05-07T18:52:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:52:05","slug":"tc-legend-homes-grand-winner-of-prestigious-housing-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/blog\/tc-legend-homes-grand-winner-of-prestigious-housing-award\/","title":{"rendered":"TC Legend Homes Wins DoE Grand Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">We recently took home the grand prize in the Affordable category at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Housing Innovation Awards ceremony in St. Louis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">This prestigious national prize was awarded for a custom net-zero-energy home we built in Bellingham for homeowners Kristina and Mike Heintz. The 1,055-square-foot home sports high-efficiency appliances, a balcony, a greenhouse, a patio, a loft, tongue-and-groove pine ceilings, and solar photovoltaic panels\u2014all for \u00a0$151,908 or $144 per square foot (not counting the land).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">A 3.2-kW PV system is all it takes to power the home, thanks to a highly insulated building envelope and high-performance equipment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">More than simply winning us an award, the Heintz house exemplifies what we want to do in our company. The soon-to-retire homeowners wanted an affordable home with zero energy bills and we were able to achieve that.\u00a0<a href=\"\/s\/DOE_ZEH_TCLegendCedarwood_09-20-14_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">About the US Department of Energy Challenge Home Awards<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">DOE Challenge Home builders are in the top 1% of builders in the country meeting the extraordinary levels of excellence and quality specified by the U.S. Department of Energy. Every DOE Challenge Home starts with ENERGY STAR for Homes Version 3 for an energy-efficient home built on a solid foundation of building science research. Then, even more advanced technologies are designed in for a home that goes above and beyond current code to give the superior quality construction, HVAC, appliances, indoor air quality, safety, durability, comfort, and solar-ready components along with ultra-low or no utility bills. This provides homeowners with a quality home that will last for generations to come.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">Our Challenge Home Awards<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>2014: Housing Innovation Award, Affordable Category (Grand Winner)<\/strong><br \/>Heintz Net-Zero-Energy House<br \/><a href=\"\/s\/DOE_ZEH_TCLegendCedarwood_09-20-14_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the case study<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>2013: Housing Innovation Award,\u00a0Affordable Category<\/strong><br \/>Ballard Net-Zero-Energy House<br \/><a href=\"\/s\/hiawinner_tclegendhomes_100113.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the case study<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"494\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cedarwood0.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2320\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cedarwood0.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/blog\/tc-legend-homes-grand-winner-of-prestigious-housing-award\/cedarwood0\/\" class=\"wp-image-2320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cedarwood0.jpg 494w, https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cedarwood0-300x265-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cedarwood0-480x424-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"462\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2322\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image1-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/blog\/tc-legend-homes-grand-winner-of-prestigious-housing-award\/image1-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-2322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image1-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image1-300x154-1.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"202\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image0-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2321\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently took home the grand prize in the Affordable category at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Housing Innovation Awards ceremony in St. Louis.\u00a0 This prestigious national prize was awarded for a custom net-zero-energy home we built in Bellingham for homeowners Kristina and Mike Heintz. The 1,055-square-foot home sports high-efficiency appliances, a balcony, a greenhouse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}