Why are Sunlights highly energy efficient homes smaller than the rest?
When looking closely at the overall impact of various materials and techniques used to increase the energy efficiency of a home, the size of the structure clearly makes one of the largest impacts. If you build a small home, you’ll use fewer materials, have lower operational and maintenance costs and impact the land less. Since reducing size has the most impact, it follows that highly energy efficient homes are small. Why do the smaller homes cost more per square foot? Small homes, unfortunately, can’t reap the benefits of “economies of scale” that larger homes enjoy. Small homes still pay the same for land, utility hook-ups, permits, mechanicals and appliances and a smaller system, in most cases, doesn’t cost much less than larger ones. Bathrooms and kitchens are the expensive rooms in any home. Small homes have these rooms too, but don’t have as much “empty” (less expensive) space over which to spread these expenses. For example, compare a 1500sf, 2 bedroom home with 2 baths and a kit
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