Energy - Saving Home Design in Central Connecticut

Even before we break ground on your home's foundation, Sunwood Development Corporation works to provide potential home buyers with the most cost and energy-saving new home option available on the market today.

To this end, we've partnered with Ekotrope Inc., a renowned, MIT-based construction and energy systems consulting firm. Utilizing this company's cutting-edge, web-based home design software, we take into account such factors as design, orientation, construction, mechanical and electrical systems, and energy sources to determine the best combination of components that will deliver the highest yield at the lowest cost to each of our homeowners.

ABOUT EKOTROPE: GREEN HOME DESIGN SOFTWARE

Ekotrope, located in Cambridge, MA, grew out of technology developed for NASA. Ekotrope utilizes its software in the design of energy-efficient buildings by performing energy and cost-benefit analysis. This analysis helps Sunwood Development Corporation predict how your home will function before it is built, and enables us to optimize cost and performance. 

HOW SUNWOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION USES EKOTROPE FOR SUSTAINABLE HOMEDESIGN

Ekotrope performs a full whole house system analysis of your future home to both optimize energy efficiency and keep construction costs down. This analysis takes into account a wide range of energy-related variables such as heating/cooling, hot water, number and placement of doors and windows, home orientation, and  our Connecticut climate, just to name a few. Ekotrope determines a personalized and accurate modeling of your home's future energy expenditure.

Ekotrope’s software uses an advanced optimization algorithm to synthesize data from more than 100,000 combinations of building materials. Each of these combinations carries different cost and energy demands, which can be clearly visualized by the software to determine the most cost-effective and energy­ efficient home design.

Ekotrope Considers All the Ways to Construct Your Home

Each point on the graph above is the same house with a different combination of building materials. Sunwood Development Corporation uses this data to find you the perfect home offering the most cost and energy appropriate solution. This one-of-a-kind analysis assures each possible scenario is considered.

Additional Questions? Please contact Sunwood Development Corporation at 203.269.0325. We've helped find the perfect home for dozens of individuals and families, including seniors, who live or work in Connecticut.