First LEED Silver Certified Home in Greater Boston

In August of 2007, Miller/Boehm Architects collaborated with construction mangers Marc Truant & Associates to construct Greater Boston's first LEED Silver certified home in Newton, Massachusetts. The key components of the project's sustainable design include:

• Redwood deck constructed from recycled materials:

+Reclaimed staves used from twenty foot diameter wine vats.

• Underground rainwater storage system:

+Available 32,000 gallon capacity offsets summer irrigation demand.

• Solar electric system:

+Photovoltaic 9.9 kW.
+Generates up to 10,000 watts daily.
+Feeds electricity to grid when the home's demand is low.

• Gray shingle exterior from sustainable source:

+Cedar trees grown in a managed forest in Maine.

• Construction recycling rate:

+87% for all waster materials.







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