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The Neos house is a 4 bedroom family house. 2614 square feet. Completed in spring 2021.<\/p>\n
Designed as a multi-generational home with one full bathroom & one full bedroom on the 1st<\/sup>\u00a0<\/span>floor, if the piano-room & the rec-room were enclosed with walls we\u2019d have a 7-bedroom home. Enough for a substantial family to live together.<\/p>\n \n Pointing south, the view looks towards the huge garden.<\/p>\n The garden spills into the dining area through sliding doors. The folks who commissioned this home are gardeners, with kids, who will be drawn towards the natural world as a way to thrive.<\/p>\n The weather briefly nips at you as you walk from the front door to the garage under the covered walkway, creating a connection with the day\u2019s weather and the world outside the energy-shell.<\/p>\n \n The SIPs installation was subcontracted because this is a Bellevue job & the TC crew have northern families & want to be home at night if possible. Issac taught a Peruvian framing crew how to sling the SIPs and the job ran fast & smoothly using advanced SIPs details required by the Bellevue jurisdiction.<\/p>\n Despite one design mistake (the mechanicals are in the unheated garage), this house is an exercise in textbook design for cost & energy performance.<\/p>\n The client did a stellar job of following design advice & the crew lovingly built the house, sealing the envelope to 0.6 air changes per hour, Passivehaus standard. The result is an economical house that has won a Department of Energy Grand Prize, attained 5-star Build Green certification and is certified Net Zero.<\/p>\n The envelope & mechanical systems are all drawn from the 2020 TC system: 6.5\u201d walls, 10.25\u201d SIP roof, 4\u201d R20 foam under the slab, R24 ICF\u2019s, Chilltrix CX34 heatpump with (1) fancoil upstairs, Zehnder 350 HRV with comfopost heat\/ cool delivery. Vinyltek triple pane windows & Thermatru front door.<\/p>\n All the stormwater from the roof is infiltrated back into the onsite soils via a huge infiltration trench. Additionally, the excavation soils all remained onsite to reduce soils trucking. The clients took responsibility for seeding the exposed construction soils, choosing to plant a complex cover crop in place of the usual grass. The cover crop can be tilled back into the soils to impart nitrogen & other nutrients when a new planting regime is decided upon.<\/p>\n The house in a garden is a traditional family way of life and TC is proud to have built a modern, dense & flexible version of this ideal, updated to make all its own power to address the demands of the climate-change world.<\/p>\n \n \n \n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_text=”Download Case Study” _builder_version=”4.14.8″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” button_url=”https:\/\/www1.eere.energy.gov\/buildings\/residential\/pdfs\/doe_ch_case_studies\/2021hiawinner_tclegend_010322.pdf” url_new_window=”on” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_divider show_divider=”off” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”3219,3220,3221,3222,3223,3224,3225,3226,3227,3228,3229,3230,3231,3232,3233,3234,3235,3236,3237,3238,3239,3240,3241,3242,3243,3244″ posts_number=”26″ show_title_and_caption=”off” show_pagination=”off” module_class=”pa-image-gallery-1-1″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/plans.jpg” title_text=”plans” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/tclegendhomes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/TYPICAL-HOUSE.jpg” title_text=”TYPICAL HOUSE” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Neos house is a 4 bedroom family house. 2614 square feet. 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