Landicity®-Builders (Landicity-Maine LLC)works with Unity Homes — a renowned home builder providing green, highly-engineered, high-performance designed homes to maximize healthy living space while minimizing footprint and environmental impact. Check out “This Old House” Unity factory video
YANKEE GREEN IS:
AN AFFORDABLE HOUSE. COMPARED TO A CONVENTIONAL STICK-BUILT NEW HOME, IRC 2018+ STANDARDS, A "YANKEE GREEN HIGH-PERFORMANCE HOME" IS NOW TRENDING AT 2%-5% MORE BUT WITH SIGNIFICANT MONTHLY DOLLAR SAVINGS. OVERALL IT IS LESS EXPENSIVE.
"Yankee Green High Performance" maximizes the land, siting, resources, and money to create a sustainable home environment that is healthy, comfortable, airtight, and durable and energy efficient. It is simply common sense, net energy or not, solar or not!
Whole system approach – All variables – house, energy, perma-culture, neighborhood, terrain, sun
Envelope – framing, water flow, air flow, penetrations, wall/roof system, energy tested
Ultra-efficient – comparative to old school thinking; water vapor barrier, highly tight and insulated; blower tested
Manufactured UNITY HOMES – highly engineered – double-walled, walls, complete panels, and high-tech manufactured systems. These homes are not your father’s Buick. Highly advanced and no longer mean a double wide.
Just because a home is built "new" does not mean it is actually new. Most builders in the Maine Mid-Coast area may tell you they build to the latest, most current building codes. They do because Maine only requires the older IRC 2009 as current and these are the least, minimal standards one must build to.
Many builders are likely using 10 to 13-year-old minimal standards and are behind the technology. Much has changed since 2009. Maine is just now transitioning to 2015 IRC in the coming year (2021). However, Maine may exempt the new code for testing, keeping the 2009 IRC 7 ACH50 “big hole” specification. 2009 IRC is 7 ACH50, a very big hole in the wall. The 2015 IRC is smaller but still a significant hole with 3 ACH50. Our recent NEW house tested at 0.7 ACH50. One IRC standard hole is ~ 3 sqft; one is 1 sqft, while our equivalent hole is the size of a dryer vent opening. That is Passive Haus standards at 0.6 ACH50. The highest building standard.
One cannot take a traditional stick-built design and "super insulate it" and expect excellent results. The home must be properly and professionally designed from the beginning to be high performance along with the correctly matched energy and fresh air healthy systems.
Ask your builder to provide all his past blower test results. If he cannot show you, he is not blower testing or is testing above 1 ACH50, we suggest you find another qualified builder.
Landicity®-Builders builds to and exceeds the most current IRC 2018+ standards with continual upgrades and improvements. While many other builders may not blower test, we do blower test with outstanding results, at or below 1 ACH50. New 2018+ IRC standards are being adopted by many states and we incorporate them.
For more information
Call Bob Muller
Ph. 207-956-0699 or email landicity@gmail.com
House Built on ~2.1 acres, Brunswick, Maine
~3,100 SF, 2 car garage, covered timber-frame porch, large deck, full walkout basement, 4 baths, 1st-floor master bedroom
BRUNSWICK, MAINE LOTS
Landicity® Builders currently has lots available in the new Douglas Ridge Estates development. We will build your green, ultra-efficient, healthy home on a beautiful lot. Visit the Real Estate page for more details. Be in your home by Summer 2018!
GREEN HOMES
We are proud to work with one of the world's best green home builders and manufacturers, Unity Homes. Utilizing building practices from across the world, these homes are built to last for hundreds of years with the highest green standards.
LANDICITY-MAINE, LLC
Landicity® Builders builds high performance, highly engineered homes in Mid-Coast Maine and the surrounding locations.. Our team includes experienced builders and engineers, all committed to healthy, green homes; ready to help you build the ultra-efficient home of your dreams.