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Building a Green Home: Live Green. Save Green, Too!

Building a Green Home: Live Green. Save Green, Too!

on January 2, 2012

An energy-efficient home costs less to operate than a home without energy saving features. See for yourself what you can save in a green-certified home in our LivingSmart Homes at Fair Oaks Ranch community, backed up by a LivingSmart Environmental Benefits Certificate. Certified Green Professional and Pardee Homes VP Joyce Mason explains what the certificate [...]

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Building a Green Home: Benefits of Native Vegetation

Building a Green Home: Benefits of Native Vegetation

on December 20, 2011

Pardee Homes re-vegetated more than 700,000 square feet of slope back to native vegetation in our LivingSmart Homes at Fair Oaks Ranch community. This brings many benefits. among them, the opportunity for reduced water costs and maintenance by the homeowner association. Native slopes are sustainable and reduce water demand for the community. Native vegetation also [...]

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Building a Green Home - High Performance Stucco

Building a Green Home – High Performance Stucco

on December 7, 2011

A high performance home not only makes your home more comfortable to live in, it can also reduce utility costs. Pardee Homes’ insulated stucco system begins with a weatherproofing step, followed by the installation of a foam that wraps the home with energy-efficient insulation. Learn about this and other utility-saving features of Pardee Homes’ green-built [...]

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Building a Green Home - Fire Safety

Building a Green Home – Fire Safety

on November 30, 2011

Safety is important in any home. Pardee Homes Superintendent Mike Carrillo takes you behind the scenes and inside the walls of one of our green-built homes at LivingSmart Homes at Fair Oaks Ranch so you can see how we’ve installed fire safety sprinklers in these homes. You’ll also hear about some of the steps we [...]

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Building a Green Home: Ventilation Done Right

Building a Green Home: Ventilation Done Right

on November 15, 2011

Air quality is an important consideration in any home. LivingSmart Homes at Fair Oaks Ranch Superintendent Mike Carrillo explains Pardee Homes’ standards for ventilation, including the steps we take during construction to protect air quality. Chat with an Online Sales Counselor LivingSmart Homes at Fair Oaks Ranch was the first neighborhood in California to earn [...]

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Why Buy Green?

Why Buy Green?

on September 24, 2011

Buying a new home that is certified green brings real value to the homebuyer – value that is not found in other non-certified green homes. Affordable utility bills, third party verifications, efficiencies that will perform long after you move in. For starters. Watch the video to learn from Certified Green Professional and Pardee Homes VP [...]

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Building a Green Home: Between the Walls

Building a Green Home: Between the Walls

on September 22, 2011

Who doesn’t like a little “inside” information? And when you’re looking for a new home, you want to know about everything–including the stuff you can’t see, right? Certified Green Professional and Pardee Homes Vice President of Marketing Joyce Mason talks to you from our LivingSmart Room at Fair Oaks Ranch, where you can discover the [...]

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Building a Green Home: Framing Day

Building a Green Home: Framing Day

on September 20, 2011

We just love this part! Seeing new homes being built, and thinking about the families that will create memories here is very satisfying. And when the homes are built to our LivingSmart standards, well, that’s something to really feel good about. See for yourself what’s better about a green home built by Pardee Homes. Superintendent [...]

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Building a Green Home: The Foundation

Building a Green Home: The Foundation

on September 15, 2011

One of the first steps in building a green home is pouring the concrete. Take a peek behind the scenes at LivingSmart Homes at Fair Oaks Ranch with Pardee Homes Superintendent Mike Carrillo, as he walks you through the steps involved, explaining a little bit about the processes that control for quality and safety. LivingSmart [...]

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Building a Green Home: Reducing Construction Waste

Building a Green Home: Reducing Construction Waste

on September 13, 2011

A sustainable approach to new home building includes a responsible strategy for minimizing construction waste. Pardee Homes VP of Construction Ralph Pistone is onsite at our LivingSmart Homes community at Fair Oaks Ranch, and shares some of the steps we take to reduce and recycle on the jobsite. LivingSmart Homes at Fair Oaks Ranch recently [...]

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