Sustainable Construction

Sustainable construction can often be reduced to marketing hype, but for us, it’s a commitment. We prioritize the health of our clients, our employees, and the planet, even when it adds complexity to our work. This dedication fuels us, because there’s nothing more important than building a healthier future for everyone.

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Sustainability In Our Homes

Energy Efficiency

Careful attention to how our homes are heated, cooled and introduce fresh air into the living space is essential to our sustainability commitment. Keeping our ducts in heated places and high-efficiency systems represent some of our additional standard measures. We offer mini-split heating and cooling systems, heat recovery ventilators, additional insulation as well as high performance windows to name just a few of our energy efficiency options.

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Always Exceeding The Mark

Minimizing off-gassing related to paint solvents, flooring and other interior finishes is important to many of our buyers. Our vendors and subcontractors are prepared to help delivery on such requests.

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Future Proofing With Solar

While we have included a “solar-ready” standard for many years, we have recently adopted a higher threshold option for our homes— a 9.3 KW capacity for future panel installation. Solar Panels and battery backups have become an important offering (usually accompanied with significant tax credits) for homeowners who wish reduce their carbon footprint. Some buyers opt for an “all-electric” homes to further reduce a reliance on natural gas.

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Sustainability In Our Communities

Low Impact Building

Our approach to development aims to minimize the impact on Oregon’s cherished farm and forest lands. By creating compact and well-designed communities, we help meet our state’s urgent housing needs while minimizing impact on our pristine rural lands.

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Xeriscaping

In the past six years, Olsen Communities has introduced landscaping designs which support native and drought-tolerant planting to minimize the environmental impact. These xeriscape designs have reduced our water usage by up 75% in our public spaces.

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Sourcing Locally

Access to local healthy food provides residents with fresh produce, reduce food transportation emissions, and promotes community interaction. These resources can also serve as educational hubs for sustainable agriculture practices and a healthy diet.

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Exceeding The Standard

National and state standards (Energy Star and Energy Performance Scores) help us to objectively verify our continued efforts to deliver homes to our buyers which are well built and environmentally responsible.

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CONTACT US

170 Main St W, Monmouth, OR

+1 503-838-1600

info@olsencommunities.com

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