Their company, Eco-Craft Homes, was started on the idea that home buyers may not know enough about green, sustainable and energy efficient homes but after learning how their homes saves energy and helps the environment, people will want their homes. And want them they do!
Here is their latest project as shared by TecHome Builder:
A tree starts as a seed. The same is true for children, and
the analogy works for building homes, too. It all starts at the foundation.
When the Sustainable Education Every Day (SEED)
Collaborative planned to build a sustainable classroom for the Phipps
Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh ,
they contacted EcoCraft
Homes, a custom modular home builder in Bridgeville , Penn.
They knew that EcoCraft had the expertise needed to create
an actual green space where children could learn about green
building. The builder was more than on board with the project and
completed it in five months.
The SEED classroom is one of two similar projects in
existence in the United
States .
“It’s designed to be a living learning science classroom to
provide a different healthy learning environment for the kids,” says Elliot
Fabri, Jr., vice president of EcoCraft Homes.
Built to the Living Building Challenge standards, the
classroom features nontoxic materials, generates energy using photovoltaics,
uses greenwalls to grow plants, and collects and recycles rainwater—many
features that custom homebuilders are incorporating into new homes.
“It’s technically connected to the grid, but it could be a
standalone off-grid building with all sustainable materials,” Fabri says.
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Has EcoCraft opened a factory? If yes - where?
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