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Articles about BPC Green Builders
Note: Until September of 2007, BPC Green Builders, LLC was known as Building Performance Construction Services, LLC. Articles and awards from before then will refer to the company as Building Performance Construction Services, though in some cases for clarity we may refer to ourselves as BPC Green Builders, even in material from before the name change.
Scientific Method
By Dan Briody
Green Home 2011 Annual Issue
Mike Trolle knows things about houses that very few people know. He knows how much heat a flat-screen television throws off. He knows how much heat the toilet flushes of a family of four will suck out of the air. He knows the insulating properties of every conceivable material you might use to build and insulate the walls of your house. In short, Trolle, the founder of BPC Green Builders, knows the modern science of building. And along with his brother Chris, he is building some of the most energy efficient homes ever seen in this part of the world, including the only two LEED-certified Platinum homes in Fairfield County.
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Reprinted with the permission of Green Home 2011, a Morris Media Group Custom Publication.
Old + New: Best Use of Advanced Building Technologies
GreenBuilder - The Green Design Guide, December, 2010
The Adirondack-style shingled home, complete with a pond and running stream, holds its own along the estate-studded back roads of New Canaan, Conn. But it is a beauty that's simply the veneer on a highly engineered and efficient home.
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Reprinted with the permission.
Ridgefield Home Gets Top "Green"
Press, Ridgefield, CT, July 1, 2010
A Ridgefield home is the first in town and in Fairfield County to be certified at the LEED for Homes Platinum tier by the United States Green Building Council.
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Reprinted with the permission.
Green Speak
By Dan Briody
Green Home 2009 Annual Issue
Mike Trolle is what you might call a green-building geek. And he's okay with that.
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Reprinted with the permission of Green Home 2009, a Morris Media Group Custom Publication.
The Greenest House in Town
by Vinti Singh
New Canaan News, January 8, 2009
(BPC Green Builders is the builder of the home that is the topic of this article. Photos and plans for this home may be seen in our Photo Gallery.)
To Etta Kantor, photovoltaic cells are beautiful. They represent the awesome energy of the sun, which gives the planet 10,000 times more energy than it needs.
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Reprinted with the permission of the New Canaan News, a Hearst Newspaper.
The Greening of America's Homes
By Jane K. Dove
The Home Monthly, October 2006
Is "green building" in the Northeast finally set to move out of the shadows and into the sun?
The answer seems to be, yes.
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Reprinted with the permission of The Home Monthly, Hersham Acorn Newspapers, 2006.
The High Performance House
By Jennifer Huget
Connecticut Magazine, May 2003
When you go shopping for a builder, you don't expect to end up talking philosophy. But if Mike Trolle is the builder at hand, you're likely to spend as much time discussing the principles that guide his work as you are counting closets and square footage. Maybe more.
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Reprinted with the permission of Connecticut Magazine.
Healthier Indoor Air, Making Every Breath
Fresh and Filtered
By Cheryl Crabb
The Hartford Courant, August 11, 2002
After months of renovation, Stacy Prince expects to breathe a lot easier once she and her family move back into their Westport home later this month. From the outside, the Prince's saltbox colonial will blend in easily with other houses on their street. One key feature, though, sets it apart: the pure air inside.
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Reprinted with the permission of The Hartford Courant.
Roxbury Health House Gentle on the Lungs,
Kind to the Environment
By Christine Shugrue
Sierra Club Quinnehtukqut, Summer 2000
When it comes to improving our health we will consider changing our diet, exercising more, taking vitamins and slowing down a hectic schedule. Few of us, however, realize that our health can be seriously harmed by poor indoor air quality. Indoor air pollution, which may be ten-fold higher than outdoor levels, contributes to a host of increasingly common ailments such as asthma and chronic sinusitis.
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Reprinted with the permission of the Sierra Club Quinnehtukqut.
A Roxbury House that Helps You Breathe
By Kathryn Boughton
The Litchfield County Times, Friday, May 26, 2000
Business and Real Estate Section
In colonial America, settlers closed their houses tightly against the night air, convinced that unhealthy 'humors' were carried on the evening breeze. Today, the situation is reversed, according to Michael Trolle, a general contractor currently completing Connecticut's first "Health House' on wooded Transylvania Road in Roxbury.
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Reprinted with the permission of The Litchfield County Times.
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