PRECEDENT STUDIES: BURH BECC

The Burh Becc at Beacon Springs was built with the help of a 20person team (a green building project consultant, science engineers, architect, and builders) and completed in 2017 after 5-yrs of construction. This sustainable residential building is said to be regenerative to the surrounding ecosystem and is expected to be standing in 200 yrs. The homeowners (Burbeck) hope the restored farmhousewillbeaninspirationforotherstoadoptthetechniquethat “establishes the highest possible standards for residential sustainability”. With the increasing population advocates Marti and Tom Burbeck took on the challenge to build a home that would “help change peoples’ relationship with the environment and to change buildingphilosophies.”

The residence consists of a 2,200 square foot, single-story Tuscan farmhouse that includes a 2,400 square foot barn and workshop that sits on15-acresoffarmland.