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GREENSPIRE APARTMENTS

September 8, 2020
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The Greenspire Apartments, Longmont, Colorado | Greenspire is Colorado’s first Passive House inspired apartment building, providing 44 healthy, affordable studio apartments built with the heart-centered “why” of leaving the world a better place for future generations. Developer/Builder Gary Kinzie worked with Cody and Lisa Farmer of Mainstream Corporation to design a building that uses features like airtight construction to optimize both regenerative performance and affordability. Cody and Lisa Farmer did the energy-efficiency analysis and Passive House energy modeling to put…

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CON FRANK / WES GEARY RESIDENTIAL PROJECT

September 8, 2020
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The Con Frank / Wes Geary Residential Project, Aurora, Colorado | This residential home was built through a collaboration between homeowner Wes Geary and developer Con Frank. Con Frank is an inventive, self-taught designer and builder who needed to “prove it could be done.” Homeowner Wes Geary decided to invest in a new house out of a conviction that “some things are more important than money.” A shared belief in sustainability was the “why” that brought Geary and Frank together…

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FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH

September 8, 2020
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Commercial
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First Universalist Church, Denver, Colorado | This community put their “why” into action by honoring one of the central tenets of their faith —“respect the interdependent web of all existence” – with a large-scale renovation of their existing building. Using recycled and repurposed materials, spray-foam insulation, solar panels, and a geothermal heat system, the new worship sanctuary and event space were constructed to operate entirely on clean, renewable energy — with zero greenhouse gas emissions. Jessica Montgomerie, a staff member…

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