Sustainable Building Design has moved just down the street to 259 West Front Street, Suite #6. Looking forward to being able to serve you from our new location.
Posted on June 25th, 2009 by lucasdupuis
Sustainable Building Design’s office Relocated
Featured design as part of the homeWord Sustainability Tour June 13
Highlighting universal design: This home shows how to build a home around potential accessibility needs for the future.
This new 1400 sf home, located in Missoula, MT. was designed to re-use the foundation of the house that formerly occupied the lot. The old house was a poorly constructed 1970’s era split level that did not serve the owner’s needs, namely one level living and a high level of energy efficiency. The former house was dismantled by Home Resource, a non-profit building materials re-use center (www.homresource.org) .
Close to 90% of the materials were re-sold by Home Resource or recycled. With a modest budget the goals for this home were energy efficiency and durable, healthy materials. The building envelope of the new home incorporates a number of high performance energy saving features such as R40 structural insulated panel (SIP) walls, R70 attic insulation,and triple pane windows. High efficiency heating an ventilation systems will help to ensure low energy bills and a comfortable, warm environment for the homeowner.
Read more about the home’s construction here.
Read more about the 7th annual Sustainability Tour here.
Posted on June 10th, 2009 by lucasdupuis
Deer Creek House on front page of Homesteader
Designed by Sustainable Building Design and built by Redfield Construction, this 800 square foot straw bale timber frame home was the featured photograph on the cover of a recent issue of The Missoula Independent’s “Homesteader Magazine”.
Posted on April 3rd, 2009 by lucasdupuis
Sustainable Building Design Philosophy
Sustainable Building Design’s philosophy is grounded in the belief that buildings should be an asset to their environment and to their occupants. A holistic approach to design draws from the unique aspirations of every client and opportunities of every site to create new spaces with healthy, durable, and energy efficient materials and methods.
SBD offers comprehensive design solutions that integrate high performance building shells with advanced environmental controls, and responsible, healthy building materials. These custom designs require that a range of innovative building systems can be tailored to each project to ensure a building’s long term occupant comfort and sustained low energy usage.
SBD strives to conform to the basic tenants of the Triple Bottom Line philosophy of business. We favor local businesses and environmentally responsible products and services. Believing that sustainability is a community value and a lifestyle choice; Lucas Dupuis volunteers with local non-profits such as Home Resource and HomeWORD to help provide information and resources for sustainable building to the community.Sustainable Building Design. Cutting edge green building.
Please have a look at what’s On the Boards, as well as the Works in Progress.
This website is under development.
Posted on December 25th, 2008 by lucasdupuis
