Green Building Practices Matter
A Yankee Barn home is a good fit for those who seek an energy efficient green building with a small environmental footprint. A Yankee Barn home is an efficient structure that affords significant reduction in energy usage.
This home building system includes high R-value insulation, trademarked roof systems, and pre-installed Zip System® sheathing for superior air protection. Yankee Barn Homes can design to maximize use of natural light including solar panel placement for generating electricity.
Yankee Barn Homes can construct energy efficient homes that are both comfortable and healthy. Through the use of energy efficient building technologies, sustainable materials, and a dedication to sound environmental practices, a Yankee Barn home provides a high quality of living while reducing your carbon footprint.
7 Energy Efficient Features of a Yankee Barn Shell Package
- The YBH True Panel System affords significant reduction in energy used for heating and cooling.
- The YBH True Wall and True Roof™ panels, starting with R Values of 28 and 59 respectively, combine to create a tight build envelope.
- Pre-installed Polyisocyanurate insulation offers the highest R-Values per square inch of thickness, creating an efficient home.
- All package components are constructed in-house in a climate-controlled environment producing less materials waste.
- Pre-installed ZIP System® sheathing is used for superior air protection, with options to upgrade to ZIP System® insulated R-Sheathing.
- The YBH True Roof™ System is PFS-TECO certified and uses a panel joint design to impeded air infiltration.
- Pre-installed Low E or better windows in our True Wall panels using flashing, insulated headers, and Zip System® sheathing.
Sustainability is Inherent in a Yankee Barn Home
Yankee Barn Homes takes quality and sustainability into account when selecting the materials to be used in our Shell Packages. Only the best materials with the smallest environmental footprint become components of our homes. Our new Douglas fir timbers are sourced from members of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative whenever available.
The polyisocyanurate insulation in a Yankee Barn Homes Shell Package is far better for the environment than polystyrene, the common alternative. Polystyrene contains a particular type of hydro fluorocarbon that is 1,430 times a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. It would take 65 years of greenhouse gases to offset the damage caused by this hydro fluorocarbon. It takes just 2.7 years to offset the greenhouse gases emitted during the production of polyisocyanurate.
Yankee Barn Homes produces green builds because we have a strong company culture of environmental responsibility. We use designing software to determine the best use of materials when building a shell package, reducing waste for each home built.
