by Sean | Sep 2, 2013 | Accreditation, Building Green, Green Building, Recognition
And, we’re proud to be among the few builders who are certified to construct:
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by Sean | Aug 24, 2013 | Construction, Construction & Design
Certifications: Best custom Home Builder of Black Mountain 2011 Unlimited Licensed Building Contractor Bachelor of Science in Business Management Accredited Master Builder Energy Star Builder/Partner Certified Green Professional HBH Certified MCAD Certified Clear Water Contractor Lightning Protection Certified “Builder of the Year” twice President of the Asheville Home Builders Association (AHBA) AHBA Board of Directors for five years North Carolina Home Builders Association (NCHBA) Build-Pac Chairman EPA Certified Lead Renovator Recipient of a NCHBA Stars Award 5 years running NCHBA Regional Vice President Winner of the Parade of Homes “Gold Craftsmanship,” “Viewers Choice” and “Special Projects” awards ARC (Architectural Review Committee) for the Village of Cheshire CAPS - Certified Aging in Place Specialist Publications: Television: American Green TV Dream Smart TV Periodicals: Builder/Architect Magazine [PDF] Carolina Home & Garden [GO] Constructech Magazine Green Building & Design Magazine [GO] [PDF] Green Business Quarterly [PDF] NC Builder Our State Southcliff Promo [PDF]
by Sean | Aug 22, 2013 | Energy Efficiencies, Energy Efficient
ENERGY STAR. It’s the little label with the big message: Better is Better. 
Living Stone is proud to offer new homes that have earned the ENERGY STAR® label. The ENERGY STAR label means that your new home has been designed and built to standards well above other homes in the market today. It means better quality, better comfort, and better durability. It also means that your new home is a better value for today, and a better investment for tomorrow. The ENERGY STAR label gives you the peace of mind that your home has undergone a better process for inspections, testing, and verification to ensure that it meets strict requirements set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ENERGY STAR certified homes are better because they are designed and built to provide homeowners:
Peace of Mind. The result of a home that’s built better.
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by Sean | Aug 15, 2013 | News
by Mitchell Parker A $1 million view. That’s an interesting thing when you really think about it. For someone to fork over a cool million just for the opportunity to wake up to a certain landscape every day says a great deal not only about what that view might entail, but about what humans desire. A space could be small and void of character, but if it has windows that frame rolling hills or water, the value of that space skyrockets. Why? In 1984, Roger Ulrich, now a professor of architecture at the Center for Healthcare Building Research at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, published an article in the journalScience that found a correlation between the speed of recovery of patients in a suburban Pennsylvania hospital with a view of nature compared with patients with a view of a brick wall. He showed that patients with the better view recovered more quickly, had fewer negative comments about nurses and took fewer potent analgesics than those with the brick wall view. Psychology professors Stephen and Rachel Kaplan at the University of Michigan would go on to pioneer research that shows how environments can have restorative properties. Basically, when people look at nature, it helps restock mental energy. (more…)