Building Green
There are many benefits when you choose to build a green home in Maine:
- Healthy Indoor Air
- Energy Efficiency
- Enhanced Savings & Value
- Water Conservation
- Environmental Preservation
And building Green is more affordable than you think. With Senecal Construction Services, you decide what Green means to you and work with our team of professionals to create your green building strategy. We help you achieve your goals while keeping your committement to the environement.
A “green” building places a high priority of health, environment and resource conservation performance over its life-cycle. These new priorities expand and complement the classical building design concerns: economy, utility, durability, and delight. Green design emphasizes a number of new environmental, resource and occupant health concerns:
- Reduce human exposure to noxious materials.
- Conserve non-renewable energy and scarce materials.
- Minimize life-cycle ecological impact of energy and materials used.
- Use renewable energy and materials that are sustainably harvested.
- Protect and restore local air, water, soils, flora and fauna.
- Support pedestrians, bicycles, mass transit and other alternatives to fossil-fueled vehicles.
Most green buildings are high quality buildings; they last longer, cost less to operate and maintain, and provide greater occupant satisfaction than standard developments. Sophisticated buyers and lessors prefer them, and are often willing to pay a premium for their advantages.
What surprises many people unfamiliar with this design movement is that good green buildings often cost little or no more to build than conventional designs. Commitment to better performance, close teamwork throughout the design process, openness to new approaches, and information on how these are best applied are more important than a large construction budget.
Green building may include any or all of the following features:
- Home positioned at 7o southeast for maximum solar benefit
- Solar panels for electricity and/or heating
- Geothermal wells for heating and cooling
- Wind power
- ICF(insulated concrete foam) panels or SIP (structural insulated panels)
- Passive solar heat sinks or building envelopes
- Radiant heat
- Insulated foundation
- Energy Star appliances
- Low-E glass for windows and doors
- Energy efficient lighting and maximal use of natural light
- Interior woods chosen from sustainable forests
- Furniture and fixtures from renewable and/or recycled resources
- Xeriscape landscaping
- Permeable paved surfaces outdoors to capture and filter water runoff
In addition, many green options qualify for rebates and/or tax credits from state and federal governments!
An energy efficient green home will save you thousands of dollars over the life of the home in energy and natural resource costs.
We can retrofit your current home or structure to make it more energy efficient. 
We can work with clients on all or any phase of a building project.
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