The New American Home: Intuitive, High-Performing Living Environments

DENVER - Nov. 28, 2016 - PRLog -- Consumers' evolving design and performance preferences have emerged as sustainability and technology have grown more intertwined with new home construction.  Buyers now expect new construction homes to meet rigorous energy-efficiency standards, to be constructed with healthy indoor environments in mind and to offer 21st century amenities that make their lives easier.

From this sea-change in home buyer preferences, and through deep market analysis, a new type of home has emerged as the holy grail of new residential construction, the "Epic Home".  Through the implementation of intuitive smart home ecosystems and innovative, ultra-green design and construction practices the Mountain Life Companies' Epic Homes will serve as the new industry standard of modern home development.

An Epic Home is not just a high-performance, resource-efficient and certifiably healthy home for its occupants, it is a home which actually communicates with its inhabitants on a deeper level, intuitively learning their preferences, sharing information, and connecting home processes in order to ensure not only the safety and comfort of its people while delivering significant operating cost savings, but also bestowing it's homeowners with what they seek the most out of a real estate investment, peace of mind.

In the mountain town of Breckenridge, Colorado the Epic Home has recently come to life, forever changing the landscape of new home offerings.  This groundbreaking new residential development in the heart of the downtown historic district, aptly entitled Epic On French Street is the focus of many green building and smart home experts' attention, as well as home buyers and investors, as it is truly unlike any other new construction residential project in the marketplace.

Garratt Hasenstab, President of The Mountain Life Companies and Director of Development at Epic On French said, "The last decade has brought about truly transformative change in the home building industry, specifically in the realm of high-performance design and construction, however just as some of our greatest expectations eventually become taken-for-granted realities, new things comes along and changes everything again, as if for the first time. This is where Epic Homes serve as exemplars of change to guide this industry toward a new, higher consciousness of development, the new American home: intuitive, high-performance living environments."

While presenting the Epic Home to a group at the US Green Building Council's annual Greenbuild Expo and Trade Conference in Los Angeles Mr. Hasenstab stated, "We've set extraordinarily high goals with this new development, and not only are we exceeding our sustainability and efficiency goals through our implementation expertise in ultra-green design and construction, we also set out to achieve the goal of seamlessly incorporating state-of-the-art smart home ecosystems that dramatically and positively impact owners' lives through higher levels of safety, comfort, resource conservation and cost savings than have ever previously been achieved in our industry."

In articulating "intuitive" more clearly, the developer refers to an "integrated smart home ecosystem". Of course, anyone can add smart home features to any home - the difference here is that it's really all about analyzing potential homeowners' habits and preferences and implementing an intuitive ecosystem around the occupants which accomplishes their goals while creating more time for the more important matters in life.

Further clarifying, an intuitive home is a home that has an interconnected system of smart home features that communicate with each other. This whole-home smart ecosystem learns and acts upon the data it collects and information it has been provided and ensures that its occupants' preferences are being tended to around the clock and that their safety, security and comfort are always managed to their precise predilections.

An intuitive Epic Home is a much safer, much more comfortable and more easily managed home that is always tending to its occupants' preferences not unlike a 5-star hotel concierge, anticipating one's arrival, setting one's comfort and preferences based on their history and saving them the time and stress of having to manage mundane tasks.  By looking through the lenses of Green (High Performance) and Smart (Intuitive) one can see that they work together naturally since both lenses serve as design perspectives and scientific construction practices that are now more entangled with each other than ever before.

Epic Homes are not just intuitive homes though - they are among the greenest, most healthy and environmentally sustainable homes in the marketplace and they are slated to earn the esteemed LEED Platinum Certification, the green building industry's highest award issued by the US Green Building Council, as well as the US Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star for Homes Certification, WaterSense Certification and Advanced Lighting Certification – all of which are today's gold standards of high-performance design and construction in their own realms of sustainability and conservation.

Responsible for assuring the Epic Homes earn these distinctions is Verdigris Group, one of The Mountain Life Companies' recently acquired subsidiary Colorado-based businesses that has been a leader in the high-performance construction consulting industry for over a decade and is recognized globally for their work in sustainability in the built environment.

For more information on the Epic Homes of Breckenridge contact Mountain Life Real Estate at 800.805.2830 or visit the devleopment website at www.EpicOnFrench.com