BrightBuilt Barn is an eco-smart project on Spruce Mountain, Rockport Maine
BrightBuilt Barn is the product of a collaboration among a team of some of the Northeast’s top green professionals, who decided to create a prototype for the sustainable house of the 21st century. The result is an award-winning, practical, affordable, beautiful structure that is one of the only buildings in the world to be designed to be truly carbon neutral: by making more clean energy than it consumes, over its lifespan, BrightBuilt Barn will actually offset all the atmospheric greenhouse gases produced by its construction.
NESEA has extended the deadline for this award to January 31. Information can still be found at: http://www.nesea.org/inspirationawards/zeroenergy/
BrightBuilt Barn has won the 2009 LEED for Homes Innovative Project award from the US Green Building Council.
"BrightBuilt Barn is a true example of outstanding leadership in sustainable construction that sets a great example for builders and project teams throughout the country." - Tom Flanagan, USGBC
"There is so much to love about the BrightBuilt Barn..
It is a model of how we can build houses that don't need furnaces, that don't look like walk-in coolers, and how we can build to last."
- treehugger.com, 2009