sustainability

At LABhaus, our core design philosophy extends beyond architecture.  The purchase and construction process itself was a core component of LABhaus design.  Typical ’boutique’ development groups use design and luxury to create an air of exclusivity and to maximize profit at all levels; ‘design’ and ‘luxury’ come to mean astronomical prices.  Typical ‘affordable’ development groups strip away as much comfort and quality as possible to maximize profits; ‘affordablity’ means suffering thread-bare accomodations and questionable quality.   Typical ‘green’ housing often combines the worst of both: over-heated hype and prices and ascetic accommodations.

At LABhaus, we consider sustainability to have three core components:  environmental, economic, and market.  Environmental stability means building homes with the lowest possible impact throughout their life cycle.   We use non-toxic, renewable materials, constructed using low-waste techniques, to produce a home with the maximum quality and durability with the lowest possible energy use.  Economic sustainability means building homes which represent the best possible value for our consumers and which are more affordable to purchase and maintain than similar homes.  LABhaus is driven by a mission to offer as much as possible for the least possible price and with the least possible impact.  Market sustainability/stability means selling homes based on commodity pricing.  LABhaus homes are not priced to the highest possible comparable value in a given market, but rather are priced to the lowest production cost in each regional market.  This means that the price of a LABhaus home is not subject to speculation or market swings–it is simply the best value possible in modern housing in any given market.  We believe this frees LABhaus homeowners from the pitfalls of speculatively priced housing and empowers families to take control of their housing needs, without having to forfeit hundreds of thousands of dollars to the typical gatekeepers of residential development.

Please explore the three core components of our sustainability mission by browsing through the submenu, above.