The new Imagine! SmartHome on Iris in Boulder was recognized with a 3rd place award in the residential category of the Colorado Sustainable Design Awards.
Boulder's PEH Architects was honored in the the Colorado Sustainable Design Awards for their design of the Imagine! SmartHome in Boulder, a highly energy efficient one-story group home for people with cognitive and physical disablilities.
The awards, announced in the current issue of ColoradoBiz magazine, discusses how the home's renewable energy systems include solar PV panels powering geothermal heat pumps, and super-heaters on the heat pumps for additional hot water to supplement the solar hot water panels.
Other features include orientation and roof slope to maximize solar exposure, roof overhangs to shade large windows in the summer but allow passive heat gain in the winter, clearstory windows throughout the home for natural light and an energy rating score of 24, representing a 76 percent reduction in energy use relative to code.
Other Boulder architects winning awards included a first place award in residential by Rodwin Architecture for the Edge House, a zero energy home, and Wolff Lyon Architects, with a 3rd place award for its Wellington Neighborhood in downtown Breckenridge.
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