Clinton News-Record, 1984-10-03, Page 33ROYAL HOMES
R-2400 designs cert energy
costs up to 80 per cent.,
Choosing a new home
can be a complicated pro-
cess. Not only do you have
to consider location, size,
style and purchase price —
but also how much your an-
nual energy bill is going to
be. With home heating costs
expected to rise by as much
as 10 to 15 per cent each
year, many homebuyers are
starting to look at the cost of
a home in terms of principal,
interest, taxes and energy
costs.
A conventionally built
home that seems affordably
priced can cost substantially
more over time than a
slightly more expensive
energy-efficient home of the
same size.
Some homebuyers are
discovering how substantial
the savings can be after tak-
ing possession of one of a
new breed of energy-
efficient homes.
Designed to save
homeowners up to 80 per
cent on their annual energy
bills, the R-2000 home in-
corporates state-of-the-art
concepts in energy effi-
ciency. Yet at first glance an
R-2000 home looks like any
other you might find in your
neighbourhood. The energy-
efficient features are built
into the home and are, for
the most part. unnoticeable.
Based on concepts de-
veloped by Government of
Canada researchers and
funded under a joint pro-
gram between Energy,
Mines and Resources
Canada (EMR) and the
Housing and Urban De-
velopment Association of
Canada (HUDAC), more
than 300 R-2000 homes
have been built across the
country to demonstrate this
new concept.
The R-2000 design
makes use of four key fea-
tures to reduce energy re-
quirements - heavy insula-
tion (two to three times as
much as in a conventional
house); an air -vapour barrier
which seals the house com-
pletely; mechanical ventila-
tion, including air-to-air
heat exchangers to maintain
indoor air quality; and im-
proved double- or triple -
glazed windows, sized and
placed to take advantage of
free solar heat.
R-2000 homes have
other modifications such as
air -lock entries and low -
powered fluorescent light-.
ing. Energy-efficient ap-
pliances are recommended
to further reduce energy
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needs.
The R-2000 program is
intended to demonstrate the
value of energy-efficient
construction techniques to
both the building industry
and the home -buying public.
In 1983, three hundred home
builders were selected to
build R-2000 homes.
Another 1200 builders
received special training in
new building techniques
through HUDAC seminars.
Federal subsidies are pro-
vided to builders to offset the
extra costs involved in train-
ing their employees and in
opening the home for public
viewing for one month.
Reports from R-2000
builders indicate that these
models are outselling con-
ventional homes in spite of a
slightly higher purchase
price. The builders say the
major selling points are re-
duced monthly energy costs;
the increased comfort of a
quiet, draft -free house; con-
trol over ventilation and
humidity and the overal[
quality of construction.
It is expected that
thousands of Canadian
families will soon be taking
advantage of R-2000 effi-
ciency and comfort as this
new approach to house con-
struction becomes more
widespread. R-2000 homes
and others like them still
represent only I per cent of
all new homes. But the
R-2000 demonstration pro-
gram represents a major step
in setting the standard for
houses of the future.
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