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He's not sure how much lEEP innovations will add to the final cost of the house, but Arlt says benefits are clear when it comes to comfort. "There's no way that you're going to get a draft through a house like this because it's really tight and really, it's just going to lead to better air quality (and) better sound isolation for outside noise coming in to the house." verville says Foxridge Homes has used some exterior insulation in the past, but not to such a great extent, covering the whole house, includ- ing the foundation wall. The show home also has insulation under the floor slab. "We've done that before too, but when you com- bine everything and you start to look at your heat-loss calculations you go, 'Wow … there's no heat loss.' " While the show home has a high-efficiency natu- ral gas furnace, it doesn't require the heating capacity he would normally use in a house of the same size. Over the long-term, replacement costs will be lower and energy savings will start adding up right away. Maric Homes vice-president of architectural design Peri Maric says a show home in Country- side Crossing was already under construction when the company decided to include lEEP in the build. That ruled out exterior insulation, but several efficiencies were incorporated at later stages, including a drain water heat recovery system, high-efficiency natural gas furnace and Erv, which is a "souped-up version of Hrv" that captures humidity, transferring it to incoming air in winter and removing it in summer. "What's cool about them is you can explain to people what's going on and it's not something you need to plan the entire house around. If you wanted to do one small step to save yourself a couple of bucks a month and to lessen your en- vironmental footprint it's a fairly simple thing to do," he says. 28 Parade of Homes FALL 2015 'There's no way that you're going to get a draft through a house like this because it's really tight and really, it's just going to lead to better air quality (and) better sound isolation for outside noise coming in to the house' one giAnt LeeP Cont'd from page 27 Cont'd on page 30 siblings tanya and Peri Maric from Maric homes