Maybe you’re just hearing about us for the first time.

Maybe you’re just hearing about passive house for the first time.

Maybe you’re just dipping your toes into the custom home build journey.

Maybe you’re looking for more information on builders, custom home building, passive house, energy efficiency…

In that case, we’re glad you found us.

We’ve been building super efficient custom homes based on Passive House standards for 10 years in Northern Colorado. We’ve built in Fort Collins, Berthoud, Loveland and we’ve branched out as far as Nederland, CO and Steamboat, CO. We’re methodical and building science oriented. We like to run the models for energy performance, break out the spreadsheets of where everything is going to go and get detailed with renders so that the connection between the lines on the paper to the physical space make sense.

We’ve designed and built passive houses for some pretty simple reasons…because we love a good puzzle and believe that pushing the standards of how we build is a worthy and necessary cause. And we’ve built passive houses for folks that love the idea of an energy efficient and super comfortable home and are excited to take their building from “code built” to building science nerd level 100.

There are some guidelines which we continuously circle back to whether it’s talking amongst one another, other builders, prospective homeowners, community members, folks we are actively designing and building with or anyone willing to sit down with a cold one and talk building science for an hour or four.

We’ve been talking internally about the importance of building affordable, healthy, natural buildings-a huge drive for us. We discuss amongst our team, the impacts of certifications, programs and standards as the “overarching goal” for many builders and how they contrast with our own goals for building. And we argue that to understand the cost of our building footprint we absolutely have to use building science and models which ultimately dictate which levers of our guidelines we adjust, what the break even points are for each project and where we can cut the waste.