High-Design, Low-Impact House Wins Multiple Awards

A couple's family homestead sets an example of net-zero energy performance in the Northeast.

Source: CUSTOM HOME Magazine
Publication date: April 9, 2009

By Stephani L. Miller

When architect David Pill, AIA, of Pill-Maharam Architects in Shelburne, Vt., and his wife, former landscape designer Hillary Maharam set out to build their family's new home, their goal was simple: to create a house that produces zero carbon dioxide emissions, reducing their family's environmental impact, while maintaining a high level of detail and comfort. The best way to achieve this low-impact goal, they found, was to design a house that uses as little energy as possible and produces as much energy as it uses (or more) from renewable sources: a net-zero energy house. KEEP READING