Green Built with Touchstone Builders

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Building Green-Sustainable houses is ultimately about building safe, comfortable living environments that balance with their surrounding natural environments. It is about integrating planning and design with climate and site analysis to maximize the energy efficiency, durability, indoor environmental quality and water conservation of our structures, while simultaneously minimizing waste and our impact on natural resources. It is only through understanding this balance that Touchstone Builders at Jackson Valley can meet the challenge of putting this understanding into an actionable plan. In order to guarantee the performance of a house, we have to understand how the house works. A house is a system, and it performs and behaves as a system. All the parts and pieces are interdependent and interactive. When we apply building science, our goal is to make sure that we affect home building in a positive way over the long term as well as the short term. This way, we can add years or decades to the useful life of the home, and we can improve the quality of life of the home’s occupant over the whole lifetime of that home.

A home that lasts twice as long has half the environmental impact, regardless of what is built. Touchstone Builders at Jackson Valley is “Green Built” , but we will concentrate on how you can claim “built better” – better than we have been, better than the competition, better than the minimum ‘green’ ratings other builders are claiming.  80% of all New Home Built are built by 20% of all Builders. Those 20% are really just a very big marketing company who happens to build houses.

Touchstone Builders is conscientious enough to build a home that:

Benefits

It’s about the benefits to your family, not the methods you employed to achieve them.  We know our customer, empower that customer through education, act with transparency to back our claims, reassure buyers that your home performs as promised through proof points, and we explain the economic benefits of your product.  

We are better built custom homes with all of the bells & whistles. Our Better Built homes will include several sustainable features such as;