Mod Generation

Neighborhood Fit: Traditional styling combined with a high level of performance is expected to appeal to a wider audience and enable New World Homes to fit seamlessly into existing infill locations.

Rich Binsacca of Builder.com writes that “New World Home offers traditional house styles that combine off-site building with high-level performance.” An excerpt:

Modular housing accounted for only about 3 percent of new homes built last year, but the founders of start-up New World Home think they have the formula to push their version of off-site construction into the mainstream.

Simply, co-founders Mark Jupiter and Tyler Schmetterer have combined a vast library of traditional home styles with a spec list that uses LEED for Home Platinum as a benchmark. New World houses are “LEED-certifiable,” says Jupiter, and at a minimum are designed to achieve HERS ratings below 50 and reduce energy use by half and water consumption by perhaps 20,000 gallons a year, among other benefits. “This is architecturally accessible green building,” he says, as opposed to modern-styled homes that seem to dominate the übergreen landscape. “Our homes are designed to fit in and deliver a very high level of performance.”

Read the entire article on Builder.com

Proficient in Green

The featured article in James Hardie’s Streetscapes Library this month is about New World Home and its goal to have a national presence for its LEED® certified homes. An excerpt:

The company’s assembly lines, strategically located around the country, are fine-tuned for efficiency and green home innovation. Modular units are constructed with spray foam insulated walls, water-saving fixtures and water heaters, advanced framing techniques to reduce waste (using sustainably harvested wood), non-added formaldehyde cabinets, doors and trim, low-E windows, and ENERGY STAR rated appliances.

Read more.

Top 5 Green Building Products

Ecomii, a green building and remodeling blog, visited the GreenBuild International Conference and Expo in Phoenix, Arizona last week and chose New World Home as their #1 green product for homes. An excerpt:

This years’ 2009 GreenBuild International Conference and Expo drew more than 27,000 architects, developers, builders & innovators, making it clear that a movement is well underway.

Rick Fedrizzi, CEO and a founder of the organization that started it, the United States Green Building Council, or USGBC, spoke to a packed house at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona last week. ”We have the power to make choices that will fundamentally change the environment and people’s lives for the better.”

GreenBuild’s keynote speaker this year, Vice President and climate change activist Al Gore, reiterated Fedrizzi’s sentiment and encouraged all Greenbuilders to stay on track and be proud of their efforts that will undoubtedly be felt by the next generation.

Standards Ease Transition to Green Living

The Wall Street Journal’s Joseph Dobrian explains that sustainably built homes do not have to be overly expensive or unusual looking. Dobrian also writes about New World Home’s traditional architectural designs and “state-of-the-art green practices.” Download a PDF of the article here.

LEED® Platinum Certification

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On Sunday, October 25th, 2009, New World Home was presented with LEED® Platinum certification.

New World Home was the first LEED® Platinum factory-built home in NY AND first LEED® Platinum home of any type in NY designed without the need for renewable energy sources.

New World Home LEED® Platinum Event

The New World Home LEED® Platinum Certification Event

We invite you and your family to an Autumn Festival to celebrate our Platinum achievements – First LEED Platinum factory-built home in NY AND first LEED Platinum home of any type in NY designed without the need for renewable energy sources. Enter to win a FREE Energy Audit provided by Global Dwelling – Home Performance Specialists.

Your Host: New World Home
What: New World Home LEED® Platinum Certification Event
Where: New World Home NY Design Center
83 East Hill Road
Youngsville, NY 12791
When: October 25th, 2009, 12pm – 3pm

To Rsvp for this Event Click Here.

Join Us to Celebrate!

Directions:
From NYS Thruway (Rte 87), take Hwy 17W (exit 16) to State Hwy 52/Liberty (exit 100). Turn left at Country Rte 175/Sullivan Ave. Turn left at Rte 52. Turn left at DeWitt Flats Rd. Turn left to stay on East Hill Road.

New World Home Goes Platinum in NY

PR Newswire

New World Home Goes Platinum in New York With Two Historic Green Milestones

Achievements Include:

- First LEED Platinum Factory-Built Home in New York

- First LEED Platinum Home of Any Type in New York Designed Without Need for Renewable Energy Sources

For the second time this year, New World Home has achieved a historic milestone in green housing by obtaining LEED(R) for Homes Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
The company has created the first factory-built home in New York State to earn LEED Platinum certification, as well as the first home of any type in New York to earn the prestigious Platinum rating without the need for any costly renewable energy sources, such as solar panels, wind turbines or geothermal systems. The home is one of only two to ever obtain LEED Platinum certification in New York. The New World Home project, located in Youngsville, Sullivan County, also earned ENERGY STAR(R) certification.

“Earlier in the year, we attained LEED Platinum certification for one of our homes in Atlanta, and we are extremely excited to replicate that achievement here in New York,” says Mark Jupiter, Co-Founder and President of the Product Division for New World Home. “It reinforces our ability to deliver quality green homes that are so efficient at a core level that they don’t require the use of renewable energy sources.

Click here to read the press release on PR Newswire

NYTimes: “Designed, Delivered and Sealed”

The New York Times talks to a satisfied owner of a New World Home:

A GLANCE at Lawrence Greene’s rustic colonial with wraparound porch in Livingston Manor, N.Y., might lead one to believe it’s a 150-year-old farmhouse. In fact, it’s two years old, one of the greenest houses in New York State, and built in a factory.

The 1,800-square-foot structure was constructed by New World Home, a company that offers environmentally responsible prefabricated houses in a variety of architectural styles.

Mr. Greene, a trademark lawyer with a Manhattan firm, bought the three-bedroom modular house for $360,000 in March and uses it on weekends.

“It’s a house that one can feel good about living in if one is trying to live green,” Mr. Greene said. “At the same time, one can enjoy the house because it has such an innate charm.”

Mr. Greene’s house has double-paned windows for insulation, and ceiling fans and cross-ventilation cool the home without air-conditioning.

“The front door doesn’t even have a storm door,” Mr. Greene said. “And it’s so secure and airtight that no cold air gets inside in the winter, and it’s perfectly cool when you walk inside in the summer on the hottest day.”

Read the entire article on the New York Times website.

Clean Living

Atlanta Life Magazine writes about New World Home’s “elegant homes that keep the world beautiful.” Read the article [PDF].

New World Home Featured on CNN

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