Apart from striving to build quality homes that are not only comfortable and healthy living environments, EcoHouse Santa Fe also specializes in high energy efficient construction. The core design used to achieve such extreme energy efficiency is based on ground breaking techniques developed by German engineers over the past decade. This original and innovative design, known as "Passive Building", makes homes up to 90% more energy efficient. With rising gas prices such energy savings are of great economic benefit. So it is easy to see that buildings constructed by EcoHouse Santa Fe are not only healthy environments but also big steps towards a more sustainable future and sound financial investments.

Energy Efficiency in a "Passive Home"
Intelligent design and innovative "Passive" construction methods will reduce
your carbon footprint by significantly diminishing the energy
consumption of your home. EcoHouse Santa Fe creates such low energy
homes that feature the highest comfort level possible. A super
insulated air tight building envelope in combination with heat recovery
ventilation and passive solar design will result in heat-energy savings of up to ninety percent..

This chart shows how much heat energy is saved by different passive building techniques used by EcoHouse Santa Fe: