Production building can very easily become a specific recipe to follow or an equation that has one simple solution.
Those recipes and equations have very little wiggle room to have the result turn out right. In the home building space, the right result means that the buyer gets the house that they want while the builder is left with some money in the bank.
But what happens when the recipe is changed? Thad Lynch, director of purchasing at Meritage Homes, talks about how the reNEWable Living home offers a new recipe for Meritage Homes to prove new products and processes and to push the envelope of high home performance.
For instance, Lynch talks about a new paint from Sherwin-Williams called Paint Shield, which is said to kill greater than 99.9% of five infection-causing bacteria on painted surfaces within two hours of exposure. The manufacturer says the paint can stop the growth of common microbes and will continue to kill 90% of bacteria for as long as four years when the surface is properly maintained.
Sherwin-Williams
Sherwin-Williams paint protects home owners from dangerous bacteria.
Lynch says that Meritage Homes is using this paint for the first time to demonstrate that it can be done in a production-built environment. The paint can be scalable in large developments without callbacks because it is a durable, high-performance product.
Besides the paint, Lynch says that Meritage will be introducing other new products into the home to explore their scalability, like home automation systems, electrical charging countertops and the HercuTech panelized concrete composite wall system.
He says one of the biggest challenges of bringing together all of the ideas for this concept home is picking which ideas are right and meet the builders’ criteria of being scalable, achievable, and desirable.
For more information on how Meritage Homes is leading new reNEWable ideas and concepts, visit www.builderonline.com/renewable.
