What is a High Performance Home?

Follow a systems approach to building homes.
Take into consideration resource efficiency, comfort, safety, and durability.
Recognize that "first-cost" is not the only valid economic criteria for homes.

Will consume fewer resources at construction and throughout their life.
Will be more comfortable to live in without the typical comfort problems that plague many homes, old and new.
Are safer to live in, being less susceptible to the unintended consequences of less thoughtful construction.
Are more durable, having considered the environment that they face on a daily basis.
Considerably out-perform homes built in a conventional way.

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