Custom Turnkey Eco Homes: Fixed-Price Design-Build Packages
We deliver architect-led, energy-efficient custom homes with transparent fixed pricing, integrated engineering, and a guaranteed move-in ready handover, uniting design, permitting, construction, and commissioning into one accountable contract focused on sustainability, comfort, and long-term value.
About Our Eco Home Design-Build Studio
We are an integrated architecture and construction team dedicated to delivering healthy, efficient, and beautifully crafted homes with fixed-price certainty. By uniting design, engineering, and building under one contract, we reduce risk, accelerate timelines, and ensure accountability for performance, aesthetics, and a truly turnkey experience.
Sustainable Design Principles
Our design approach blends passive strategies, climate-responsive modeling, low-embodied-carbon materials, and durable detailing into a cohesive home that minimizes energy demand, maximizes comfort, and supports healthy living without sacrificing aesthetics, craftsmanship, or long-term resilience.
Fixed-Price Design-Build Workflow
Our streamlined process aligns scope, drawings, engineering, and procurement early, locking a fixed price before construction, coordinating trades through one team, and delivering predictable timelines, transparent milestones, and accountable decisions from concept to keys without surprise change orders or hidden contingencies.
Scope Definition and Budget Lock
We map your goals, site constraints, performance targets, and finishes into a quantified scope narrative and baseline drawings. That scope drives clear allowances and vendor quotes, letting us lock a fixed price only after real trade feedback, avoiding guesswork and protecting you from midstream cost creep.
Integrated Design and Preconstruction
Architects, engineers, energy modelers, and estimators collaborate concurrently, refining details, thermal assemblies, and equipment selections while verifying constructability and lead times. This integrated preconstruction phase de-risks decisions, aligns expectations, and resolves conflicts digitally, so the field team builds exactly what was promised, on schedule.
Schedule Guarantees and Change Management
A critical-path schedule, supplier commitments, and inspection sequences are agreed upfront. Any requested change is priced transparently, approved digitally, and integrated without jeopardizing completion milestones, ensuring you remain in control while our fixed-price guarantee and risk management keep the project tracking to handover.
Energy Performance and Certifications
We engineer to proven standards like Passive House targets, ENERGY STAR, or net-zero readiness, using energy modeling, HERS ratings, and commissioning to verify results, reduce utility bills, and unlock incentives while ensuring measurable comfort, quiet interiors, and durable, resilient building performance.
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We specify robust, low-carbon assemblies and moisture-smart details that protect structure, preserve finishes, and extend service life, prioritizing durability, easy maintenance, and repairability while reducing embodied emissions through thoughtful sourcing, efficient structural systems, and verified environmental product declarations.
Contact usEnvelope Assemblies and Thermal Control
Continuous exterior insulation, high-performance windows, airtight membranes, and ventilated rainscreens limit thermal bridging and manage vapor effectively. These assemblies prevent condensation, enhance comfort, and keep conditioned air where it belongs, ensuring the structure remains dry, efficient, and resilient across seasons and decades.
Low-Carbon Structure and Responsible Sourcing
We consider mass timber, FSC-certified framing, fly-ash or slag-blended concrete, and recycled steel options to reduce embodied carbon without compromising strength. Supplier transparency, EPDs, and verified chain-of-custody documentation support ethical procurement and help your project meet rigorous sustainability goals credibly and measurably.
Moisture Management and Long-Term Resilience
Flashing, drainage planes, capillary breaks, and ventilated cavities defend against water intrusion. We detail transitions carefully around penetrations and openings, while robust roofing and above-code waterproofing maintain integrity through storms, ensuring longevity and safeguarding finishes, comfort, and indoor air quality over time.
Renewables and Off-Grid Options
We integrate solar, storage, heat pumps, and efficient ventilation to cut carbon and increase resilience, with optional off-grid packages for remote sites, ensuring comfort, reliability, and energy independence tailored to your climate, lifestyle, and budget priorities.
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We size arrays to your modeled annual demand and pair them with lithium battery systems for backup and peak shaving. Smart inverters, load management, and utility interconnection ensure seamless operation, optional islanding during outages, and long-term flexibility as your needs evolve over time.
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Cold-climate air-source or ground-source heat pumps deliver efficient heating and cooling, while balanced HRV or ERV systems provide filtered, tempered fresh air. Together they minimize energy use, elevate comfort, and maintain stable humidity, outperforming conventional equipment with fewer emissions and lower operating costs.
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Where permitted, we design rainwater catchment with first-flush diversion, filtration, and storage sized to roof area and rainfall data. Efficient fixtures and low-impact wastewater strategies reduce demand on municipal systems, improving resilience during droughts while lowering environmental impact and long-term utility expenses.
Site Assessment, Permitting, and Utilities
We evaluate your site’s solar access, soils, wind, drainage, and access constraints, then coordinate surveys, engineering, and permit submittals, proactively managing utilities and inspections to keep approvals smooth and construction uninterrupted from groundbreaking to final occupancy sign-off.
Floor Plans, Customization, and Interiors
Choose from thoughtfully curated plan families and tailor layouts, finishes, and performance options to your lifestyle, balancing design freedom with cost certainty while maintaining our high standards for sustainability, durability, and long-term maintenance simplicity.
- Modular Plans and Bespoke Adjustments Starting with proven plan modules accelerates pricing and approvals while allowing strategic customization of room sizes, fenestration, storage, and outdoor connections. We preserve the energy model’s integrity and fixed price by guiding edits that respect structure, systems, and procurement realities established during preconstruction.
- Kitchens, Baths, and Low-Impact Finishes We specify durable, low-emission cabinetry, recycled-content surfaces, WaterSense fixtures, and easy-to-maintain finishes. Thoughtful lighting, ergonomic layouts, and efficient appliances combine function and beauty, while product selections align with warranty requirements, budget allowances, and performance targets validated during energy modeling and cost planning.
- Acoustic Comfort and Natural Lighting Sound-attenuating assemblies, resilient underlayments, and sealed penetrations create quiet interiors, while daylight modeling guides window placement and shading for glare control. The result is a serene, bright home that enhances wellbeing, supports productivity, and reduces reliance on artificial lighting throughout the day.
Comfort Automation and Scenes
Thermostats, shades, and lighting scenes respond to schedules, occupancy, and daylight levels, balancing comfort and efficiency. User-friendly apps and local controls ensure accessibility for all, while open protocols preserve flexibility for future upgrades, avoiding lock-in to proprietary ecosystems and short-lived gadgets.
Energy and Water Monitoring
Circuit-level energy monitoring and submetered water reporting reveal patterns, identify anomalies, and verify savings from solar and heat pumps. Actionable insights enable smart behavior adjustments, while alerts notify you of leaks, unusual loads, or equipment faults before they become expensive problems or disruptions.
Security and Remote Access
Hardwired sensors, secure cameras, and encrypted remote access provide peace of mind without compromising network resilience. We configure notifications, privacy zones, and local recording options, ensuring reliable protection that integrates gracefully with automation while respecting occupant comfort and minimizing false alarms.
Construction, Quality Control, and Safety
Our crews execute with disciplined sequencing, third-party testing, and rigorous documentation, maintaining clean, safe job sites and verifying details that impact performance, durability, and warranty coverage long after move-in.
Prefabrication and Efficient Assembly
Where beneficial, we use panelized or modular components to shorten timelines, improve accuracy, and minimize waste. Factory-quality control and precise site coordination reduce weather exposure, protecting materials and ensuring assemblies meet the airtightness and thermal requirements established during design and modeling.
On-Site QA, Testing, and Documentation
Checklists, photo logs, and inspections confirm insulation density, air barrier continuity, and proper flashing. Blower-door tests guide air sealing iterations, while commissioning verifies mechanical performance. Detailed documentation supports warranties, future maintenance, and potential resale disclosures with transparent, credible evidence of quality.
Safety, Cleanliness, and Neighbor Care
Clear safety protocols, regular housekeeping, and respectful communication keep crews safe and neighborhoods comfortable. Dust control, material recycling, and traffic planning minimize disruption, while signage and protective measures safeguard landscaping, adjacent properties, and public ways throughout construction activities and deliveries.
Turnkey Eco Home Services
From feasibility to keys, our services combine rigorous design, verified energy performance, and disciplined construction management. Each package includes transparent scopes, predictable milestones, and measurable outcomes tailored to your site, climate, and budget, ensuring confidence and comfort from first sketch to move-in day.
Site Feasibility and Concept Design Package
We assess zoning, utilities, solar access, soils data, and budget alignment, then produce concept plans, a preliminary energy model, and a realistic schedule and cost narrative. This package reduces uncertainty and sets the foundation for fixed pricing without costly redesign during permitting or construction mobilization.
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Fixed-Price Custom Design-Build Package
A complete, architect-led design-build delivery including detailed drawings, engineering, permitting support, procurement, construction, QA testing, and commissioning, all under a guaranteed fixed price tied to an agreed scope, performance targets, and finishes that align comfort, efficiency, and long-term durability.
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Move-In Ready Delivery and Commissioning
We complete punch lists, deep clean, label systems, verify controls, balance ventilation, and walk you through operation, maintenance, and warranties. This final step ensures your home performs as designed and feels truly turnkey the moment you receive the keys and begin living comfortably.
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Move-In Ready Delivery and Aftercare
We deliver a fully cleaned, tested, and commissioned home with manuals, warranties, and training, then provide responsive aftercare that ensures your systems operate as designed and your comfort remains exceptional through seasons and years.
Final Commissioning and Handover
We verify equipment settings, airflow, controls, and water temperatures, then complete punch lists and deep cleaning. A comprehensive handover includes labeled panels, filter schedules, and maintenance guides, ensuring you step into a polished, truly turnkey home on day one without loose ends.
Owner Orientation and System Training
We walk you through controls, maintenance tasks, emergency procedures, and seasonal adjustments, ensuring confidence and independence. Clear documentation and quick-reference guides accompany hands-on training, so you understand how to sustain comfort, protect warranties, and get the most from your home’s efficient systems.
Lender Coordination and Appraisal Support
We provide detailed scopes, schedules, and cost breakdowns that lenders and appraisers understand, plus energy performance documentation that supports valuation. Transparent reporting and milestone billing align with draw schedules, helping your financing proceed smoothly from approval through construction and final certificates.
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Builder’s Risk and Homeowner Coverage
We advise on builder’s risk policies, liability, and transition to homeowner coverage at occupancy. Clear documentation of equipment serials, commissioning results, and photos supports underwriting, while durable, code-compliant construction reduces insurance risk and helps protect premiums over the life of the home.
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Comprehensive Warranties and Support
Our fixed-price package includes defined workmanship, systems, and structural warranties with clear terms and response timelines. We honor manufacturer requirements and maintain documentation so claims are simple, while scheduled check-ins ensure small issues are resolved before they become costly, inconvenient problems.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How is the fixed price determined and protected?
We compile trade quotes, lock specifications, and finalize energy-driven system sizes before construction to eliminate guesswork. A detailed scope, allowances, and change protocol protect your budget, while supplier commitments and a critical-path schedule guard against delays that could otherwise cause hidden cost creep.
What makes these homes truly move-in ready?
Your home is delivered cleaned, commissioned, labeled, and fully functional, with manuals, filter schedules, and training included. Systems are tuned, comfort verified, and any punch items resolved, so you can unpack immediately without contractors returning for unfinished tasks or disruptive post-handover adjustments.
How customizable are the floor plans and finishes?
We start with proven plan families to preserve performance and price accuracy, then tailor layouts, windows, storage, and finishes to your needs. Our team guides edits that maintain energy targets and structural efficiency, ensuring personalization without undermining timelines, procurement, or the guaranteed fixed price.
What energy performance can I expect from my home?
We target low HERS scores and net-zero readiness through airtight envelopes, high-performance windows, heat pumps, and balanced ventilation. Modeling informs right-sized systems and solar options, while blower-door tests and commissioning verify results, ensuring comfort, low bills, and resilience in real operating conditions.
How long does the process take from concept to keys?
Timelines vary by jurisdiction and scope, but our integrated approach streamlines approvals and procurement. After feasibility, design and permitting typically run several months, followed by efficient construction and commissioning, culminating in a predictable handover date defined at contract to support your move-in plans confidently.
What is included and what might be excluded?
Our proposals specify included drawings, engineering, permits assistance, construction, QA testing, and commissioning. Exclusions or allowances, such as specialty appliances, bespoke millwork, or unique site utilities, are clearly listed, enabling informed decisions and transparent choices without surprises during construction or at handover.