Icynene spray foam was installed Monday at our AAC block project . It took about 5 hours to do the roof deck and gable ends. This is a sealed attic, eliminating the need to insulate at the ceiling joists. Even the upper chord of the roof trusses were covered, minimizing heat transference through the wood. The attic will not go through temperature extremes, subsequently giving added life to the HVAC equipment. Everything was sealed pe ... Read full post »
Affordable Green Homes? Yes, we can!
Partnering with the Community Home Trust, Synergy Building has recently broken ground on their third and fourth energy efficient affordable homes. This project was slow to get started due to the complications caused when lot lines are reconfigured. On this project, the Home Trust has reconfigured a lot that already had one of their existing affordable homes, in a manner to accommodate two additional homes.  This type of infi ... Read full post »
Historic District Renovation/Addition in Chapel Hill
We are very excited to be starting a new project in the historic district of Chapel Hill near UNC. This project poses a lot of exciting challenges. The project includes the construction of a three story addition, with two car garage below, plus remodeling and renovation work to the existing home. When this renovation is completed it will feature a new high energy efficiency HVAC unit installed by Duggins Mechanical, spray foam insulatio ... Read full post »
Second OCH< Affordable Home Starts
Our second green built affordable home for the Orange Community Housing and Land Trust is under way.   Architect David Ripperton donated his time to put the plans together for these homes. In addition to putting together a great plan with a very functional traffic pattern and many special features, he did a great job of making spaces and room sizes that allow the use of standard length framing materials – which he ... Read full post »
Can Green be affordable?
Building an energy efficient home that qualifies as part of an affordable home project may seem unrealistic……but that is exactly the project initiated by the Orange Community Housing and Land Trust. Synergy is very excited to be involved in this venture, and believes that the project will demonstrate that quality built energy efficient homes can also be affordable homes. Synergy has been working with the Land Trust to develop ... Read full post »