This year's International Builders' Show features a green home built on an infill site near downtown Orlando. The house, which has been certified "green" by the Florida Green Building Coalition, features low-solar-gain windows, which reduce heat loss in the winter and heat gain in the summer. Heat gain is further minimized by vegetated overhangs over the south- and west-facing windows. The house also has a green roof and rooftop solar panels.
Not everyone was impressed. Treehugger, commenting on the energy efficiency of the house, said, "They are off to a poor start with this--4309 square feet of air conditioned house out of concrete and stryrofoam is hardly a model of energy efficiency, even if it is covered with photovoltaics and sod." Drama!
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