What are the homeowner’s benefits when building a green home?

• Lower Energy Bills: through energy efficient lighting, equipment, and appliances
• Healthier and Comfortable Indoor Environment: consistent temperatures and lower risk of mold growth
• Increased Market Value: higher resale value of your home
• 5% Discount from Progress Energy: receive a 5% discount on electric bills for the life of the building
• Financial Tax Incentives: state and federal tax credits for renewable energy and energy efficiency
• Performance Report: third party verification quantifying the home's overall energy score, annual energy cost savings, and pollution prevention
• Reduced air pollution through energy efficiency

What makes our construction more green friendly than traditional construction?

Because your home is constructed in a controlled, factory environment resources are utilized much more efficiently; the assembly of your home in an enclosed environment protected from inclement weather greatly enhances our ability to minimize waste of valuable building materials through precise measurements and cutting; the same factors not only make possible but encourage the recycling of excess natural resources that would otherwise often be discarded; likewise the controlled offsite construction environment greatly reduces noise, dust and damage to the environment at the final construction site landscape and neighborhood; all of these components of system-built construction process allow us to build a tighter, more precise structure that maximizes energy efficiency – all of which are key factors in green building standards.

What does building Green really mean?

A lot of people ask us this. Green Construction is the future of residential construction. Building Green is the practice of building to a higher standard where the approach to construction is to build a efficient, healthier home to live in, while reducing impact on the environment.

What is the HealthyBuilt Homes Program?

The NC HealthyBuilt Homes Program provides a certificate for homes meeting "green home guidelines" built by residential builders who practice sustainable, high performance building strategies, making the home a comfortable, healthy and affordable place that reduces energy and water usage, promotes renewable energy use and helps protect the land where the home is built.

What is a Energy Star Home?

ENERGY STAR qualified homes are at least 15 percent more energy efficient than homes built to the 2004 International Residential Code (IRC), and include additional energy saving features that typically make them 20–30% more efficient than standard homes. ENERGY STAR qualified homes can include a variety of energy efficient features, such as effective insulation, high performance windows, tight construction and ducts, efficient heating and cooling equipment, and ENERGY STAR qualified lighting and appliances.

Why should I consider a home built by Red Tree?

Today’s system-engineered homes offer construction of the highest quality. We can build the home of your choice using the latest building technology in a controlled factory environment by specially trained technicians. In addition, the construction of your home is protected from untimely weather delays thereby assuring an “on schedule” completion date. These factors allow Red Tree to build the home of your dreams in a quality controlled environment while making the entire process much more affordable than could be achieved through a site built process. Homes are precision-built to be stronger, healthier, more energy efficient and faster to complete and you gain all of these benefits without sacrificing design or amenities.

Can I design my own home instead of using a standard home plan?

You can choose one of our plans or provide work from your own architect. We have a number of proprietary house plans available, and we have partnered with several well-known regional architectural firms.

What style home does Red Tree build?

We can build any style while we customarily specialize in Craftsman/Arts and Crafts style homes. Red Tree builds in the Asheville, and surrounding areas. Projects consist of custom homes and speculative building.

What will my home look like?

System-Engineered homes look like any other home. Today's construction technology has allowed our manufacturers to specialize in homes ranging from small, simple designs to highly customized contemporary houses. In all probability you have been in many System-Engineered structures without being aware they were built off-site.

Can Red Tree build a traditional stick-built home?

While we recommend system-built, there are times in the mountains where traditional stick built construction is the only option.