Backyard
Many of the lots feature rolling terrain capable of having a walk-out basement. These lots are large enough to give you country like living within minutes of multiple highways, shopping, schools and city living.
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Exterior
The exterior of your home is a blank slate giving you the opportunity to dream up your own inviting facade.
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Master Suite
Have your builder customize your master suite into an irresistible, tantalizing living space that gives you complete relaxation from a long days work.
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Garage
Many of these lots will allow for the addition of a detached garage or building. This opportunity is exclusive to Eagle Ridge Subdivision and cant be found anywhere else.
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Passive Solar
Easy economic savings accrue from designing and building features that effectively trap heat from the sun during the day and release that heat slowly throughout the nighttime. The effect is similar to living near a large body of water where the thermal mass of the water lessens temperature extremes. That means reduced heating and cooling load for a building, and that saves you money.
You may easily incorporate thermal mass into a building for passive solar heating by using materials such as concrete, stone floor slabs, or masonry partitions that hold, then slowly release heat. Orienting your building so that the longest walls run from east to west, and using large south-facing windows, allows the sun to help heat the home in winter. Properly designed roof overhangs shield the building interior from the summer sun. Passive solar designs use natural methods to stabilize the internal temperature of a building without the need for active mechanical devices such as pumps or fans, although these may be used to supplement performance. Passive solar designs also include natural ventilation for cooling. An obvious method is simply locating windows in the building strategically so that when opened, a natural breeze may be easily accelerated in the interior. Openings and passages designed into ceilings will promote the escape of hot air from the interior of the building through the roof or upper windows.
Passive solar designs can reduce heating bills as much as 50 percent. For a monthly heating bill of $200 dollars, you may expect savings of $80-$120 per month. If passive solar features are included at the time of initial construction, or as part of an overall remodeling effort, the effective net cost of improvements will be much lower. However, you will benefit immediately in your monthly cash-flow.
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Natural Daylighting
Both obvious and hidden economic savings can come from building designs that rely on natural lighting. Throughout much of the day, owners and occupants can easily benefit from natural lighting and avoid electrical consumption otherwise required by artificial indoor lamps. Not so obviously, considerable economic gain may be achieved through increased productivity of workers and occupants. Studies have repeatedly demonstrated that natural illumination is the gold standard by which the efficacy of artificial lighting technologies is gauged. Further, studies show that workers with access to windows and natural light are happier, more productive, and suffer fewer health problems than workers resigned to artificial lighting.
Technologies include efficient windows, skylights, light shafts, and many architectural features that allow natural light to penetrate into the building. Newer technologies are used as well. Over the past decade, some Japanese shoppers have benefited from natural light delivered to the interior of shopping malls via fiber optic cables originating on the roof.
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