Sentence examples for prototype home from inspiring English sources

Veridian Homes in Madison, Wis., which built a prototype home using Energy Star and other environmental standards last year with the help of money from the Energy Department, has used the findings from that research "across the board," Jeff Simon, Veridian's vice president for operations, said.

The 2015 UC Davis Solar Decathlon Team designed and constructed an affordable zero net energy prototype home for California (CA) farmworkers.

The first time Steve brought a Fleshlight prototype home, he said that his sex life improved vastly.

But the prototype home was designed to handle this.

Perhaps one of the most intriguing projects, in one of the nation's most unforgiving climates, is a prototype home built in 2009 in Anaktuvuk Pass, 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle on Alaska's North Slope.

This June it broke ground in Paterson, N.J., just east of its U.S. headquarters, on a prototype family home with insulation that reduces the amount of oil required for heating and cooling by 80%.

That's the idea behind several prototype homes in the US, Australia and Europe that are built to show and test technology that could reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.

One relic of those aspirations is the abandoned site of a 2011 housing exposition held in Zoranje, where scores of colorful prototype homes now sit empty, some padlocked, others plundered and used as toilets.

The panels have been used in three prototype homes, and production costs have been halved to $3 a square meter, or 28 cents a square foot, a figure competitive with the price of timber — which in any case is in short supply because of deforestation.

To quantify the energy savings associated with insulation retrofits in existing single-family homes, we use a regression-based approach to simulate energy savings in a number of prototype homes in different cities and apply those findings to the set of homes where insulation retrofits were deemed plausible.

In November 2012 a five-year design and construction process culminated in the completion of two prototype homes built with wood frames and highly insulating wall systems consisting of straw bales, cob (an adobe-like mixture of clay, sand, straw, and water), and a finish layer of earthen plaster (a blend of clay, fine aggregate, and fiber).