The best insurance to make sure your green project hits its goals? The pre-con meeting: key people sitting down before construction starts and talking through what needs to happen. And by ‘key people,’ I don’t mean just owner/builder/architect – I mean framing, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, insulation, and drywall (plus your third-party verifier, of course!). It’s the subs who will make or break your blower door test, for example, so it’s really smart to make sure they understand how their work impacts air sealing. Why meet with everybody together? Because the line between work scopes is getting blurrier all the time and because you’ll come up with solutions to issues you didn’t even know you had.
Kudos to Nick Smith of Central Highland Builders for setting up just such a meeting for his new ENERGY STAR project, Ferncliff Village on Bainbridge Island!
