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High lights.
FAKRO triple-pane kitchen skylights
provide natural lighting during
the day, and improved internal
temperature control year round. Powerful
planning.
The Black Residence
includes Jenn-Air
Energy Star-rated
appliances.
Rock solid.
Long-lasting, naturally produced
and chemical-resisting granite
countertops give a classic home
an updated look.
Old meets new.
A combination of new doors from Klearwall and recycled
other structures keep the house old-fashioned and
modern at the same time.
The owners took their personal and professional passion and reallocating more than 16 of the ordered windows to avoid
expertise in architecture, construction and sustainability to create additional eld modications of rough openings or slowdown of
the high-performance home they wanted. Leveraging the skill and the contracting crew.”
capabilities of its project architect and contractor, while pulling Existing siding was removed to install a comprehensive insulation
aspects from Passive House, LEED and Living Building Challenge, package, not only between walls, but completely wrapping the
the home was able to simultaneously balance sustainability and the entire home to the foundation footings with two inches of rigid
economics that is achievable for any home renovation. insulation, and spray foam used at all roof and basement areas. This
Recognizing the need for heating and cooling comfort, builders was topped with a high-performance air barrier and tape from SIGA
installed 60 high-performance, Passive House-certied, triple-pane to signicantly reduce airow by 65 percent, bringing it down to
windows from Klearwall (with a U-value of 0.12). It wasn’t as only 1,300 CFM.
simple as it sounds. “Midway through construction, it was clear With a tight envelope in place, new exterior façade and roof
that the windows intended for our master bedroom would conict materials with long material lives (30-plus years) and low- or no-
withthe adjacentkitchen and great room roofconstruction, maintenance requirements created the modern farmhouse aesthetic
obstructingkey views from the master bedroom,” Black says. the owners sought. White engineered board and batten siding, and
“Changing the window sizes was not an option from a schedule an aluminum Energy Star-rated metal roong positively impact heat
and cost standpoint, requiring an emergency redesign of the gain/loss. Combined with programmable thermostats, heating oil use
new window layouts over 4th of July weekend. [We ended up] was reduced by 45 percent.
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