The New American Home: Intuitive, High-Performing Living Environments Developed by The Mountain Life Companies

Denver, CO, December 07, 2016 --(PR.com)-- Breckenridge, Colorado is where these Epic Home have recently come to life, forever changing the landscape of new home offerings. This groundbreaking new residential development in the heart of the downtown historic district, aptly entitled Epic On French Street is the focus of many green building and smart home experts' attention, as well as home buyers and investors, as it is truly unlike any other new construction residential project in the marketplace.

An Epic Home is a high-performance, resource-efficient and certifiably healthy home for its occupants, and is a home which actually communicates with its inhabitants on a deeper level, intuitively learning their preferences, sharing information, and connecting home processes in order to ensure not only the safety and comfort of its people while delivering significant operating cost savings, but also bestowing it’s homeowners with what they seek the most out of a real estate investment, peace of mind.

Garratt Hasenstab, President of The Mountain Life Companies and Director of Development at the Epic On French project said, “The last decade has brought about truly transformative change in the home building industry, specifically in the realm of high-performance design and construction, however just as some of our greatest expectations eventually become taken-for-granted realities, new things comes along and changes everything again, as if for the first time. This is where Epic Homes serve as exemplars of change to guide this industry toward a new, higher consciousness of development, the new American home: intuitive, high-performance living environments.”

In articulating the term "intuitive" more clearly as it applies to smart home design, the developer refers to an “integrated smart home ecosystem” - an interconnected system of smart home features that communicate with each other. This whole-home smart ecosystem learns and acts upon the data it collects and information it has been provided and ensures that its occupants’ preferences are being tended to around the clock and that their safety, security and comfort are always managed to their precise predilections.

Epic Homes are more than just intuitive homes though, they are among the greenest, most healthy and environmentally sustainable homes in the marketplace and they are slated to earn the esteemed LEED Platinum Certification, the green building industry's highest award issued by the US Green Building Council, as well as the US Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star for Homes Certification, WaterSense Certification and Advanced Lighting Certification – all of which are today's gold standards of high-performance design and construction in their own realms of sustainability and conservation.

LEED for Homes Platinum Certification accounts for every detail of a home's planning, design and construction, from appropriate site development and material resource conservation, to energy conservation and indoor occupant health, all the way through the critical-path of development to completion and third-party verification of all features and documentation in order to assure the homeowners that indeed this home meets or exceeds the incredibly high standards of LEED certification criteria.

By looking through the lenses of Green (High Performance) and Smart (Intuitive) one can see that they work together naturally since both lenses serve as design perspectives and scientific construction practices that are now more entangled with each other than ever before.

While presenting the Epic Home to a group at the US Green Building Council's annual Greenbuild Expo and Trade Conference in Los Angeles Mr. Hasenstab stated, "We've set extraordinarily high goals with this new development, and not only are we exceeding our sustainability and efficiency goals through our implementation expertise in ultra-green design and construction, we also set out to achieve the goal of seamlessly incorporating state-of-the-art smart home ecosystems that dramatically and positively impact owners' lives through higher levels of safety, comfort, resource conservation and cost savings than have ever previously been achieved in our industry."

Responsible for assuring the Epic Homes earn these prestigious green building distinctions is Verdigris Group, one of The Mountain Life Companies' recently acquired, Colorado-based subsidiary businesses that has been a leader in the high-performance construction consulting industry for over a decade and is recognized globally for their work in sustainability in the built environment. Another of the Mountain Life Companies proud new brand acquisitions, Haven SmartHome Solutions has meticulously developed and implemented the intuitive smart home ecosystems at the Epic Homes.

For marketing and purchase information on the Epic Homes of Breckenridge contact the Mountain Life Companies’ real estate division at 800.805.2830 or visit the development website at EpicOnFrench.com.