Rising energy costs, climate change and a growing awareness of the impact we have on this planet are changing the way homes are built. Building green means building more energy-and water-efficient houses that last longer and waste fewer resources while keeping their owners healthy and comfortable.

At Elliott Homes building green means even more: it means thoughtfully building in locations that are convenient to services like schools, shopping and entertainment, so residents don’t have to waste gas running across town. It means planning new communities that preserve natural areas and greenbelts. It means enhancing neighborhoods with walking paths and parks with trees.

Building green may be new to other builders, but it has been the conscientious choice of Elliott Homes for a long time.

Energy-efficiency:  Elliott Homes uses superior products to ensure that less energy is used to keep your home comfortable.

Green building practices:  Elliott Homes uses innovative home design and procedures to help preserve the earth’s natural resources.

Environmental Stewardship:  Elliott Homes plans protect its building sites by leaving nature preserves and wildlife habitats undisturbed. We enhance our neighborhoods with parks and trees.

Green Building Practices

Elliott Homes uses a “best practices” approach to conserve our natural resources.  Procedures in all communities included:

• Use of water-conserving faucets, shower heads & water closets
• Drip irrigation on automatic sprinkler timers
• Use of water-wise landscape plant materials
• Fresh, filtered air ventilation system
• Use of sustainable lumber products, including new growth material, recycled/salvaged wood products (finger jointed studs, OSB sheathing (oriented strand board), OSB & plywood floor joists, laminated beams
• Use of precision, pre-cut lumber & truss packages to reduce waste
• Onsite recycling of waste building materials (concrete, lumber, drywall, roof tile, paint, plaster, steel, copper, aluminum, iron, plastics, cardboard & paper products, glass)

Community Specific

• Re-circulating pump - hot water system reduces water waste while waiting for hot water (California)
• Onsite Raw Material Recycling - Onsite manufacture of aggregate materials from otherwise

Environmental Stewardship

As a family-owned builder founded in 1914, Elliott Homes has always been a conscientious builder concerned about our environment. As the awareness of human impact on the environment grew, Elliott Homes incorporated new policies and procedures to protect and enhance nature in our communities.

We seek to create environmentally harmonious communities by minimizing noise, as well as our impact on natural and man-made resources, including land, air, water, minerals, plants and animals through compliance with EIR (Environmental Impact Report) Open space.

We strive to maintain and enhance environmental quality with consideration of ecological systems and natural resources through compliance with CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act).

We preserve and protect the waters of our communities and our country for present and future
generations by complying with SWPPP (Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan)

Elliott homes goes even further in protecting and enhancing our environment by:

• Building neighborhoods and communities with parks & recreation nearby
• Including walking and biking paths in our communities
• Designing landscape corridors with water conservation in mind by using plants with reduced water requirements and incorporating drip irrigation systems
• Maintaining or re-creating wildlife and native plant habitats. In the northern valley communities of California, this includes the

• Swainson’s Hawk
• Oak tree
• Elderberry bush
• Fairy shrimp

In the southwest desert communities of Arizona, this includes the:

• Burrowing owl
• Saguaro barrel cactus, mesquite, ironwood and palo verde tree
  
  
• Respecting and protecting waterways through wetlands preservation, waterway enhancement & preservation, preserving and creating habitat ponds with natural filtration for birds and wildlife