brightbuilt barn at aiga compostmodern maine

client

a barn for painting and building robots

• livability

•sustainability

•affordability / replicability

•disentanglement

•education

beauty

design

construction

green

prove it

103 cfm50

PASSIV HAUSINSTITUT

transparency

open source

what brightbuilt did to us

we’ve gotten really good at numbers

ach50 & cfm50

btu / sf / yr

• old maine house: > 100,000 btu / sf / yr

• normal construction: 40,000 btu / sf / yr

• good construction: 20,000 btu / sf / yr

• BrightBuilt Barn: 7,000 btu / sf / yr

• passivehouse: 4,700 btu / sf / yr

off-grid vs grid-tied kWH vs. kW

heat pump COPU-value & SHGCachNAT vs ach50embodied energy

we talk to peoplebetter & faster

fancy construction tricks

we attract attention

http://www.brightbuiltbarn.com/

we’re selling a product(but we’re a service business)

operators are standing by$165,000 delivered to your door

lessons learned

buildings in cold places need fat walls!

architectural software is still primitive

• 2 cad files

• 3 energy models

• minimal integration

pay attention to the germans and canadians

go to conferences with people smarter than you

don’t waste a good client

your eyes get opened

simplicity please

no beauty, no green