BONE Structure®, designer and builder of luxury custom homes using a patented light steel frame building technology and integrated process toured hundreds of interested people over the weekend through the company’s first California net zero-energy home commissioned by Stanford Professor of Climate & Clean Energy, Mark Z. Jacobson.
“The strong interest from Bay Area residents in our new net zero-energy home was overwhelming,” said Charles Bovet, Vice President at BONE Structure. “Many people are interested in learning more about green options in home building and how to meet California’s 2020 Zero Net Energy requirements – BONE Structure has the technology and solution to meet those standards now.”
Over 1,000 attendees toured the construction site to learn more about the benefits of a BONE Structure home. There were displays and presentations about emerging green technologies, including those from TomKat Center Innovation Transfer grantees that are deploying sustainable energy solutions for the built world.
Last Thursday BONE Structure hosted a clean tech private event at the home that included talks by Mark Z. Jacobson (Stanford Professor of Climate & Clean Energy), JB Straubel (Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Tesla Motors, Inc.), Tommy Deserti (Head of RNC and OEM at Nest), and Marc Bovet (CEO of BONE Structure). Also in attendance was Gil Friend, Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of Palo Alto.
View event video: https://youtu.be/sUzw9Jz409E
From left to right: Marc Bovet, Mark Z. Jacobson, Michelle Tremblay, JB Straubel, Charles Bovet, Tommy Deserti
Located in Stanford, Professor Jacobson’s home was designed to meet California’s 2020 Zero Net Energy (ZNE) new home building requirements. It will be 100 percent powered by electricity, with no gas line to the property, and include the latest sustainable technology including: Tesla Powerwall energy storage for sustainable homes, the Tesla Wall Connector auto charger, a 15kW solar system and the Nest Learning Thermostat.
BONE Structure has orders for 20 homes in the San Francisco Bay Area and expects to have 50 in California in 2016. The company is scaling up to produce 1,000 residences per year to address growing demand for this disruptive home construction technology making it the only net zero-ready energy ready home builder that can produce homes on a large scale.
ABOUT BONE STRUCTURE
Founded in 2005, BONE Structure specializes in the design, development and commercialization of technologies for residential construction. It employs more than sixty professionals, architects, technologists, engineers, and urban planners and has integrated expertise to provide unmatched customer experience. The company also collaborates with architectural firms and other outside professionals. BONE Structure has a network of authorized builders composed of general and specialized contractors, project managers, developers across Canada and California who also share the company’s corporate values of Respect, Transparency, Loyalty, Security and Fun. BONE Structure is a member of the NAHB in the US and other builder associations across Canada. They have also received a number of awards throughout the years for innovation, architecture, sustainability and process.
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