Eco-Friendly Construction Materials

Your new Design Tech Home is built with an innovative construction system that defines the structural core of green building. These eco-friendly construction techniques produce a cost-efficient, well built home using products designed to conserve precious natural resources. The components of the system are as follows:

	Engineered Roof & Ceiling Frame Plan Advanced framing techniques that use engineering principles to minimize material waste while meeting building code structural guidelines.
	Engineered Flooring System An engineered system that reduces warping, twisting, and shrinking that can lead to squeaky floors. These systems make efficient use of faster-growing trees from managed forests which help preserve old-growth forests for a sustainable future.
	Finger-Jointed Studs Resource-efficient construction materials that are as strong and stable as solid-sawn studs. This material is used throughout all the walls of our homes and engineered to deliver straighter stronger walls.
	OSB Exterior Sheathing / Decking Oriented-strand board (OSB) is made from small pieces of wood harvested from small, fast growing trees (usually from a tree farm) and have an average recycled content of anywhere from 66 to 75 percent. And we don't just use sheathing per code like many builders, we go a step further and blanket our entire home.
	MgO Board Trim / Soffit These innovative magnesium cement-based products are deemed to be CO2 (greenhouse gas) friendly by capturing emissions in the manufacturing process that are not released into the atmosphere. MgO boards can be recycled upon demolition or even composted, returning valuable magnesium-based minerals to the soil. This superior, non-combustible material also resists rot resulting from humidity, rain, salt air and termites.