{"id":1177,"date":"2012-07-12T13:20:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T17:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2012-08-13T11:34:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T15:34:11","slug":"taking-the-lead-in-sustainable-homebuilding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/2012\/07\/12\/taking-the-lead-in-sustainable-homebuilding\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Lead in Sustainable Homebuilding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1178\" style=\"width: 668px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1178\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1178\" title=\"Aaron Yoder '01\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/07\/Aaron_Yoder1_opt-658x438.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron Yoder '01\" width=\"658\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/07\/Aaron_Yoder1_opt-658x438.jpg 658w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/07\/Aaron_Yoder1_opt-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/07\/Aaron_Yoder1_opt.jpeg 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Yoder &#8217;01 before the &#8220;green&#8221; house his company built for Carroll and Nancy Yoder.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A construction company owned by <strong>Aaron and Melinda Yoder, both \u201901<\/strong> grads, took a top award in 2012 for building a single-family home in an environmentally friendly manner in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>AM Yoder &amp; Co. Inc. was awarded in Virginia\u2019s third annual Sustainable Leadership competition for an EarthCraft-certified home built for retired language professor Carroll Yoder and his wife Nancy.<\/p>\n<p>Their two-level, 2,300-square-foot house, at 1322 Greystone St. in Harrisonburg, was constructed with styrofoam-covered concrete blocks that form energy-conserving walls. Three solar panels on the roof provide most of the hot water needed for the heat that radiates from water-filled tubes in the floor and for washing. The house was oriented to permit passive solar heating, shaded in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really like our house \u2014 it is very quiet . . . we have thick walls and no moving hot air,\u201d says Carroll. \u201cOur son (Joel \u201997) is now using Aaron to build his house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harrisonburg architect <strong>Randy Seitz, class of \u201987<\/strong>, commends Aaron for his interest in building \u201cwell-crafted, modest-sized houses in existing neighborhoods, rather than another McMansion on former farmland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aaron has been a leader in promoting EarthCraft-certified construction in Virginia since 2006. EarthCraft began in Atlanta, Ga., in 1999 and has been spreading across the nation. From its website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>EarthCraft House certifications are determined through a points-based worksheet, which allows builders to select the sustainability measures that are best suited for their project. Worksheet items address proper site planning, energy-efficient appliances and lighting, resource-efficient building materials, indoor air quality, water conservation and homebuyer education, and all are verified during site visits and inspections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aaron says that EarthCraft Virginia has certified over 1,600 homes and 7,000 multifamily dwelling units.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2014BPL<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A construction company owned by Aaron and Melinda Yoder, both \u201901 grads, took a top award in 2012 for building a single-family home in an environmentally friendly manner in Virginia. AM Yoder &amp; Co. Inc. was awarded in Virginia\u2019s third annual Sustainable Leadership competition for an EarthCraft-certified home built for retired language professor Carroll Yoder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":1178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,234],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine","tag-aaron-yoder","tag-randy-seitz","issues-summer-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}