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Article: BASF / Pepper Viner High-Performance Home Launched.
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- Energy Weekly News
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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BASF, the world's largest chemical company and Pepper Viner Homes present the Pepper Viner/BASF High-Performance Home - a model for near-zero energy construction for production builders nationally. Located in the Tucson, Arizona's Civano North Ridge community, the test home, which is 81 percent more energy efficient than a typical home, is currently open for public tours and featured on www.betterhomebetterplanet.com. But according to Jack Armstrong, Leader of Building and Construction Markets in North America for BASF, creating a repeatable and profitable model for mainstream builders is the real success story.
"When BASF built the award-winning, LEED Platinum ...