Build Your Energy-Efficient Dream Home in New Hampshire
We have beautiful GREEN estate lots available in new Boston, New Hampshire, a New England village that retains its small-town character. These wooded parcels vary in size from 2+ to 12+ acres. Manchester, New Hampshire and its airport (Manchester-Boston Regional) are a short drive away, and Boston is just over an hour’s drive. If you’d like to learn more about what is involved in building a sustainable (green) home, look at the posts and links on our website and also check out Build Green NH®.
Looking into Clark Hill Woods, Summertime
Add comment November 20, 2009
Super Energy-Efficient Home in Vermont
(from GreenBuildingAdvisor.com)
Waitsfield, VT
General Specs and Team
Construction
Add comment June 21, 2010
Serious Materials Windows
Not all green makes sense but super-insulating windows do!
In commemoration of Earth Day this year, Wendy Koch of USAToday detailed the lessons she learned in her journey to green her home in Washington D.C. suburb of McLean, Virginia. Wonderful lessons for everyone – no matter where you live. Wendy’s #7 lesson is one to highlight: Not all green makes sense. Economic sense, that is. What pays back the most? What will save the most money? Wendy weighed energy efficiency options with alternative energy creation options. She ruled out windmills altogether, and compared geothermal heat pumps, high efficiency gas furnaces, and then turned to look at…..the window. Her findings:
Perhaps surprisingly, we’ll save almost as much energy as we would have with geothermal by switching from double-pane Jeld-Wen windows to super-efficient SeriousWindows, which have an insulating film.
So our green home, modeled to earn top ratings, won’t have any chic green features such as solar panels, windmills or geothermal heat pumps.
The lesson learned is super-insulating windows pay back. In many cases, certainly Wendy’s, more than anything else you can do. The insulating film of SeriousWindows is one of several features of our high R-value framing systems that deliver higher insulation across the whole, full frame, so your heating and cooling doesn’t literally fly out the window. Unlike triple pane windows that can deliver higher R-value than your standard single pane (R-1) or dual pane (R-2) windows – but with a ton of drawbacks – we make dual chamber, triple chamber, and quad chamber windows that outperform old technology like dual and triple pane. So you save money, and we all save energy.
Add comment June 17, 2010
Green Building Advisor Website
If you’re new to the concept of green building and want to build a sustainable and energy-efficient home, check out this PAGE.
Sun's Path
The sun moves, but houses stay put. The sun is a lot higher in the sky in summer than in winter. You can use overhangs and trees to block the sun’s heat in summer. In the winter, when you want the benefit of the sun’s warmth, the sun’s rays shine below the overhangs and the leaves are gone from the trees.
Siting can keep a house warm and cool
How a house is oriented to the sun has a dramatic impact on heating and cooling costs — the largest energy load in most homes.
As promising as photovoltaic (PV) and solar hot-water collectors are for reducing our reliance on fossil fuels, passive solar design alone can lower heating costs tremendously. Much of the reduction is available without spending an extra dime. (more…)
Add comment April 13, 2010
NAHB’s National Green Building Program
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has recently put their stamp of approval on the ICC 700 National Green Building Standard of 2009. Watch the video below to learn more.
Add comment March 24, 2010
Andrew Keys, Landscape Designer
I would like to introduce a landscape designer to potential buyers of Clark Hill Woods lots. His name is Andrew Keys and he has the credentials, the passion, and the experience to be your consultant, landscape designer, and perhaps even provide advice on organic vegetable gardening if you have an interest in learning more about that. He feels very strongly about utilizing plants, shrubs, etc. that are either native to the area or are so easily acclimated that they need little or no tending, fertilization, etc. Some are drought tolerant, others may be most at home in (more…)
Add comment March 23, 2010
Clark Hill Woods On The Market
PRICING and other information are on MLS (Multiple Listing Service) so you can find Clark Hill Woods at Realtor.com and many other real estate websites. Search for “Clark Hill Woods” or simply “land in New Boston, NH”. John MacGilvary is our agent. He is with Prudential Verani Realty in Londonderry, NH. Below is his contact information.
John MacGilvary, CRS
Regional Manager
603.845.2201
jmacgilvary@pruverani.com
1 Verani Way
Londonderry, NH 03053
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Clark Hill Woods Lot Photos
Gallery of Clark Hill Woods Lot Photos (Click on each photo for more information).
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- Trail to Oak Knolls, Lots 1-3
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- Rear Lot 4 looking At Beaver Pond
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- Woodland Trail, Lot 5
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- Homesite, Lot 5
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- Lot 8 Homesite Clearing
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- Pine Woods, Lot 9
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- Trail, Lot 9 to 10, Looking West
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- Woodland Trail, Lot 10
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- Field Abutting Lot 12
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- Woodland Trail, Lot 12
Add comment March 3, 2010
What Makes Clark Hill Woods Unique?
We have gone to considerable lengths to preserve the character of the area and have done selective forestry management to enhance the health and beauty of all of the wooded areas that make up the majority each lot.
- Located animal trails on the property; designed lots so as to allow these to remain with little or no disturbance
- Selectively removed some trees to improve overall health of forested areas, allowing more sunlight to reach the forest floor, make walking, hiking, or cross-country skiing easier, and provide the ability to orient each home so it can benefit from passive solar warmth with no increase in building costs (more…)
Add comment February 10, 2010
Skofield Conservation Area
The 30 acres comprising the Skofield Conservation Area were donated to the Town of New Boston from the Skofield family estate.
This beautiful conservation area has an entrance on Clark Hill Road adjacent to Lot 1 at the eastern edge of the Clark Hill Woods property. There is also an entrance on Briar Hill Road with a small parking lot. (See map by clicking on “more…” below.) (more…)
Add comment February 8, 2010
What is Sustainable Design?
It is helpful to understand what terms like “Sustainable Design,” Energy-Efficiency,” and “Green” mean. It is also key to understand what “green washing” is. There are a lot of misunderstandings about these terms and there seem to be a range of definitions thrown around, depending on who you are speaking with. (more…)
Add comment January 15, 2010
