Sustainable Home Building Movement
Green building as a national trend is best described as building homes that are efficient and environmentally friendly. However, most home builders fail to see that green building is just one part building complete and quality homes. In other words, green building isn't just a trend, it's the wave of the future, and that wave is made up of more than just efficiency and environmental friendliness.
Sustainable Home Building Movement: The ability to endure long term well being by living in a low maintenance, healthy, energy efficient and environmentally friendly home while recognizing that homes are a system that the owners participate in.
The term sustainable is often defined by its mutually reinforcing three pillars: environment, social, and economic. Applying these pillars to home building, environment refers to recognizing a responsibility to minimizing a home's environmental impact; social refers to healthy living that you are a participant in; 
and economic refers to low maintenance, energy efficiency and affordability.
Your sustainable home produces a viable relationship between the environment and long term affordability. It produces an equitable situation between the social qualities and affordability. Finally, the social and environmental aspects come together to create a bearable product. Together these conditions are sustainable.
We have not only been a local leader when it comes to green and sustainable home building, but we are affiliated with state-wide and national efforts as well. The US Green Building Council is the national leader in promoting green buidling and our homes are certified in this program. Build Green New Mexico is the state-wide effort to promote green building in NM and all of our homes are entered into their program.
While green building clearly applies to the Sustainable Home Building Movement, it's only one part. Read what one of our past clients said about the product of our sustainable building philosophy:
"He really is interested in green building. I liked his phrase about making a house that "performed well". This one is doing just fine. Most of the summer the house was comfortable just regulating the temperature by opening and closing the windows and using the fans. I turned on the AC twice, just to see if it worked. It got pretty hot if I left the windows open during the day, but the fans were enough to take care of it. Now, it's in the 20s and 30s at night. I wait during the day for the water to heat up, (it hit's 120 around noon) then turn on the floors until the sun goes down. The house heats up to about 72-75 (depending on how cold it is out). By morning it's down to 66-68, still comfortable. I have three zones, so I could leave the floors on in the bedroom if I thought is was going to be really cold. I have a furnace.....but haven't turned it on yet."
