Article: Developers build on green concept.(Attitude at Altitude)(Dorado Developers on their green design construction)

DORADO DEVELOPMENT'S three partners--Steven Chavez, brother John Chavez and Jon Harbour--all think big. Not about building big, necessarily, but about thinking larger than the project at hand.

Their work, says the all-under-30 trio, is as much about a commitment to enhancing a community as it is about pleasing a homeowner. "We work to separate our projects from the pack by only building 'green,'" says Harbour. "It is common sense to us, a timely 'building ethic.' To do otherwise goes against our professional credo, and against what is best for the community."

ICFs (insulating concrete forms) are, literally, at the heart of Dorado's projects. "ICFs are ...

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