Builder magazine, one of the nation's top magazines in the industry, has published the winners of its 2008 Builder’s Choice Awards. Among the Grand Award Winners, from all over the United States: the Pringle Creek Cottage. CATEGORY: Production/Semi-custom, less than 2,000 square feetENTRANT/ARCHITECT: Opsis Architecture, Portland, Ore.BUILDER: Bilyeu Homes, Salem, Ore.DEVELOPER: Sustainable Development, SalemSimple in form (and therefore easy to build and easy to insulate), the home achieves significant energy savings through natural lighting and ventilation, a geothermal heat pump system, and solar roof panels. Because every design element had the potential to affect the energy efficiency of the ...
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