New World Home

Modular design-builder New World Home has earned the first LEED Platinum rating in New York State for a prefabricated house. The 2400-square-foot house, in New World's Carson style, was assembled in Jeffersonville, New York in upstate Sullivan County and is just the second LEED Platinum home in New York (after an affordable single-family house in Schenectady that we've not covered here at gbNYC copped the honor earlier this year). The company's designs aim to blend in with the local architectural vernacular by "converging traditional design with next generation green technologies and highly efficient modular manufacturing methods;" the Jeffersonville home is no exception. Its tight thermal envelope, though, should save 65 percent in energy consumption over a conventional house, according to the project's LEED for Homes provider Steven Winter Associates. All of New World Home's projects are built with FSC-certified lumber under a scant 60-90-day production schedule; other base green features include: