Brighton Homes' Tim O'Brien explains how the Vision House of Sussex balances sustainability and attainability, spotlighting LiftMaster smart garage door technology and Windsor Doors' recycled-steel garage doors.
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Tim O'Brien: We decided to have the slogan for the vision House of Sussex to be sustainable in it and attainable. And the reason why we chose that is that the sustainable piece obviously aligns with our green building initiative that we have here at Brighton Homes. But the other part, the attainable part, is really trying to make this more of a mainstream, accessible to a larger demographic than more of a niche market, which seems to be a lot of the green building home builders in our marketplace in the Midwest.
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Tim O'Brien: We wanted to be able to pass this out to a greater group of home buyers, and so we really focus on the attainable pieces, really focused on the value and really driving down the cost, but keeping the value of green, building energy efficiency, which is a component of it in the homes. Lift master has been a partner of ours since our first day of building homes, and lift master has been a wonderful innovator and technology advances in our industry.
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Tim O'Brien: What we really enjoy in this particular home, we have an ultra quiet, belt driven lift master door operator. And in addition to that, Lift Masters just come out with this keypad video called Mike video, which provides a little bit more peace of mind for a consumer to know what is going on. It's a video that will provide access to the entire driveway or whatever area you want to cover that you can from your keypad, and give you alerts when people are coming up into your driveway, somebody's coming home, whatever it might be.
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Tim O'Brien: You also have the opportunity for video storage, so you can go back and kind of see what has happened over the day or over the week at your home as it relates. So it's a great security and peace of mind piece. The Windsor Doors, we really enjoy and excited about this particular door in the House of Sussex, because this particular door contains up to 75% of recycled steel content.
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Tim O'Brien: In addition to embedding a well rounded insulation system inside the door that provides a much more comfortable garage when temperatures are extreme. So Windsor Door 75% recycled content on the steel. Steel prices have been just crazy over over the last few years here really helped to provide more sustainable garage door at a much more value based price.