Master builder Thomas E. Tate’s company, Tate Builders, has been an influential force in the home building industry on Martha’s Vineyard for a number of years. The company overseen by Thomas Tate upholds the highest standards for sustainable building and design.
Custom builders like Tom Tate enhance sustainability using today’s innovative technologies. Software solutions enable contractors to measure the energy use intensity (EUI), or the energy demand placed on specific areas of a structure. By using this data, builders can meet standards that will reduce the use of energy in the structures they remodel or design.
Typically, heating a space requires the highest consumption of energy, often using natural gas. The second heating priority is normally water, which in most cases, also involves the use of natural gas.
Lighting, which entails the biggest use of electricity, is the third primary way that energy is consumed. When meeting sustainability requirements in this respect, the available daylight allowed by a structure’s design is considered, as well as what to use in the way of energy-efficient fixtures and appliances.
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