Marabou Ranch
  Steamboat Springs, CO

 - Built Green® Colorado Certification for all amenity buildings on site.
 - Financial incentives offered to home sites that achieve the Built Green Certification.

Typical Cabin

• 11% more efficient than code requires
• Special Energy Features:
• Super Insulated R-56 Ceiling
• 47% more insulation than required by code
• Saves $33 per year over code insulation
• 90% Efficient Condensing Furnaces
• 15% more efficient than required by code
• Saves $178 per year over 78% efficient furnaces
• Air Sealing Package
• Saves $32 per year over normal air sealing
• Eliminates drafty areas and improves comfort
• ENERGY STAR Refrigerator
• Ultra Efficient refrigerator, uses only $40 of electricity per year
• Saves over $100 per year in electric savings over less efficient model
• Annual expected natural gas bill - $1227
• Annual expected electric bill - $482
Prevents 52,737 lbs of CO² from entering the atmosphere each year*

Main Lodge

• 18% more efficient than code requires
• Special Energy Features:
• Super Insulated R-56 Ceiling
• 47% more insulation than required by code
• Saves $143 per year over code insulation
• 91% Efficient Condensing Furnaces
• 17% more efficient than required by code
• Saves $331 per year over 78% efficient furnaces
• Annual expected natural gas bill - $1954
• Annual expected electric bill - $1267
• Prevents 87,172 lbs of CO² from entering the atmosphere each year*

* Compared to an "all electric" code compliant home.  This is based on both point of use emissions (gas), as well as emissions from power plants (electric).  The emissions from power plants are based on state by state information collected in a study by the American Gas Association.

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