Home as a System – Building High-Impact Green Homes

What is building green, really?

We view the construction of a green home as a system of individual, cutting edge technologies which work together to achieve a low maintenance home with low operating costs that offers its occupants a healthier interior environment than a day spent in the mountains.

Our “Home as a System” is comprised of three basic units:

• The Structure.
• The Operating Systems; Heating, cooling, water, and electricity.
• The Finishing.

Each of the three basic units is comprised of technologies which must meet minimum criteria:

• Products that save energy, water and other renewable natural resources; zero need for non-renewable resources.
• Products that contribute to a safe, healthy building environment.
• Products made with salvaged, recycled or agricultural waste content.
• Products that have little or no toxic or harmful emissions.
• Products with minimal environmental impact during fabrication, transportation, assembly and disposal.
• The products durability must meet or exceed the comparable conventional materials durability.
• Material conservation and waste reduction.
• Marrying ancient building concepts with today’s cutting edge building materials.

These criteria must be met by each and every single item that is used to build a Navona green home. If it isn’t green, sustainable, and durable we will not even consider its use.