Project ABC Green Home (And ZNE Blog Series) In Full Swing

Foundation poured at ABC Green Home at Great Park in Irvine, Calif. 

On the heels of ABC Green Home's recent groundbreaking, the project reached yet another major milestone last week -- the setting of the home's foundation slab. What started as an idea by Green Home Builder magazine's publisher and SCE to build an affordable, environmentally friendly home, is now becoming a reality.

Next on the fast-paced construction agenda is building the framing for the house, starting this week. As the project is set to be completed in just 70-80 days, we'll be chronicling the step-by-step process of the build with a series of construction updates and videos on the ZNE blog.  

For more information about the project, check out the June issue of Green Home Builder magazine, which includes a feature story on ABC Green Home's groundbreaking. And stay tuned here for more exciting updates.

Being Green in the OC is as Simple as ABC

A rendering of the ABC Green Home (courtesy: ABC Green Home Project)

Last week, we announced plans to build an environmentally friendly home near the Orange County Great Park in Orange County, California.  Dubbed the ABC Green Home because of goals to make it affordable, buildable and certified by several of the green-building rating agencies, the house will demonstrate that a solar-powered, environmental home can be built using available materials, technology and appliances at a cost that's competitive with conventional housing.

The ABC Green Home will be the first of two experimental homes that SCE will build in Orange County, with support from the homes' designer, KTGY Group architects and Newport Beach-based Green Home Builder magazine.

The goal would be for the completed home to be displayed for a year so the public and the homebuilding industry can learn from the effort.  The home will then be moved to a new site and given away, most likely to a low-income family or a veteran.  

Read more about the ABC Green Home project here.