Energy optimization

Chatham University's new Eden Hall Campus is turning a 388-acre plot of land into Chatham's School of Sustainability and the Environment.

Clarum Homes built the first passive home in San Mateo County & Menlo Park, California. It blends unsurpassed energy-efficient technology and sustainable building materials into a custom home that is gorgeously designed, healthy for occupants, and amazingly comfortable.

The Arbors at Oak Park is a new mixed-use affordable housing development located at a high-profile intersection in Sacramento, CA that plays a significant visual and economic role in the surrounding neighborhood. The development provides housing for seniors and includes community spaces as well as 4000 square feet of retail space on the corner. It was developed by The Related Companies and opened for occupancy in mid-2013. We provided services as subconsultant to Sage Green Development.

The builder has completed a gut rehab of the original home on this lot and is now underway with a new second unit. Features include Advanced Framing (resource-efficient structural design), underslab insulation, elimination of thermal bridges at the slab edge, and superinsulation in the walls.

This is Clarum Home's second completed Passive House, which was substantially complete in early 2013. Learn more about the project here.

CLAM Blue II followed on the heels of the Blue House, a deep-energy retrofit that was just shy of Passive House standards