Are there solar collectors, PV or solar thermal?
A. With the C.O.R.E. System, the structure itself is the solar thermal collector. Flat plate solar collectors can also be added to increase the heat input into the thermal battery. The C.O.R.E. design reduces the energy consumption of the building itself by up to 66%, the average percentage that usually goes into heating and cooling a structure. With this energy signature reduction, it makes the other 33% (lights and appliances) easily augmentable with fiber optic lighting, PV, or active, solar panels. Q. How are you satisfying Sustainable Sites, Water Efficiency, Energy and Atmosphere, Materials and Resources, Indoor Environmental Quality, and Innovations and Design process requirements of LEED-H program? A. Our homes can be assembled with a myriad of eco-minded styles and products to maximize the benefits of the C.O.R.E. structure: from rainwater collectors, to solar fiber optic lighting, from LED’s, to Living Walls. The innovation and design of C.O.R.E. structures simply begins with
