If you’re planning to have a new home built, don’t forget the many benefits of a green building. Environmentally friendly structures are designed to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels and materials that negatively impact the earth and your health. Use this guide to better understand how this construction style will improve your daily life. 

How Green Building Benefits Homeowners

Enhanced Energy Efficiency

A green home is designed to decrease the energy requirements for heating and lighting the property as well as using appliances. This will reduce your energy use, keeping your home comfortable while reducing costs and limiting carbon emissions. Your building contractor will design the property for passive solar heating, which means most windows will be on the south side to absorb the sun’s heat during winter. However, this orientation also requires shading to keep the house cool during summer, so they’ll factor in the surrounding landscape. They’ll also super-seal and insulate the walls, ceiling, and flooring to prevent air and moisture from seeping in or out in any season. 

Reduced Environmental Impact

When you first begin to build your new home, your contractor will help you to rethink your size requirements. Smaller spaces require fewer building materials, reduce the need for extensive excavation work, and minimize disruption to the ecosystem. It also reduces how much square footage in the new home has to be heated or cooled. To live comfortably, green construction companies recommend 700 square feet per person. However, if you decide a home addition is needed in the future, they’ll design the layout to easily accommodate future changes, shortening remodeling times and lessening the impact on the environment. 

Another way making your new home green is beneficial is that it will be built using reclaimed and local materials. Your contractor will identify and incorporate available options at every stage of the process. This will also help the planet, since it will reduce or even eliminate the emissions produced in fabrication and transportation of goods. 

If you want to build a green new home, turn to the experts at Zdon Builders, Inc. For 35 years, this construction company has provided Deep River and all of Southern Connecticut with industry-leading building, renovation, and repair services. They specialize in highly energy-efficient resources and techniques, designing homes that are personalized and made to last. Call them today at (860) 227-4127 for a consultation, and visit their website to learn more about their building services.