Build Your Home on the Green Gauge for Free by HomeArchitects.com

Online, December 1, 2009 (Newswire.com) - ----Cashiers, North Carolina (Rand Soellner Architect) 1 December, 2009 www.randarch.com
(C)Copyright 2009 Merry Soellner, All Rights Reserved Worldwide. "Green Gauge" coined by Rand Soellner as part of this press release. Everyone is hereby licensed to reproduce this press release in its entirety for informational purposes, acknowledging the source and copyright, and to link to the Green Gauge itself as a favorite on your computers.

Rand Soellner Architect has invented the Green Gauge. "I've never seen anything like it," commented Soellner, "I looked for a diagnostic tool that does this and couldn't find it, so I hired software programmers to help me create it." What is the Green Gauge? It is an interactive software tool on Rand Soellner Architect's GREEN GAUGE webpage on his website: www.homearchitects.com .

The Green Gauge page is at this URL: http://www.homearchitects.com/green-gauge. What is interactive about the Green Gauge? There are multiple choices that you click on with your mouse. What choices? There are multiple selections for the following:
Roof Systems
Roof Framing and Roof Insulation Systems
Wall Systems
Wall Siding
HVAC Systems (Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning)
Windows and Doors

What is the "Gauge" part of this? There is a vertical bar of green that expands upward more or less, depending on the "greenness" of the user's choices. There are points, from 0 to 800 on the scale. Various selections have more or less points. What does greenness mean? Environmentally sound, energy efficient, sustainable.

Rand Soellner AIA/NCARB is a licensed architect specializing in the design of custom homes. Many of these residences are in scenic regions, such as Western North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington State, Northern Central Illinois, Atlanta and Tennessee. Soellner added that he offers home design services throughout the USA and the World. Rand knows that the energy used to heat, cool and run homes exceeds all commercial facilities combined. With all the focus on Green Design these days, he was interested in developing his Green Gauge as both an educational device and real world modeling tool. Soellner's gauge helps homeowners, contractors and other architects understand the effectiveness and environmental sensitivity of their choices with respect to energy consumption, sustainability and carbon footprint on our planet.

"Some people might wonder what qualifies me to have developed this Green Tool," said Soellner. "I guess designing homes for about 42 years is one qualification; since I was 15." Soellner's designs have also been the recipient of Energy Conservation Awards from major power companies, like Florida Power Corporation, and the American Institute of Architects. His designs have also been featured in books and magazines worldwide, such as House With A View, (available at Amazon.com) last year, in which 3 of his homes were featured, along with the work of other leading architects around the planet. He also performed the site selection analysis, programming, Master Site Planning and Concept Design for the new Florida Solar Energy Center, which is the epitome of energy conservation and sustainability. "So I guess that makes my company Green Home Architects," said Soellner.

Soellner calls much of his green design initiative Going Green 4 Less. In his philosophy, Rand Soellner seeks to first concentrate of energy efficient and sustainable choices that do not cost substantially more than typical choices. He also encourages choices that clients can afford that will yield lower power bills over the long run, like photovoltaics and other energy conservative options. Stephen Clack, AIA, LEED GA, a Rand Soellner Architect associate handling the Orlando custom home architects region, is a strong advocate of solar hot water heaters, which he believes yield a payback in terms of months rather than years.

Soellner offers everyone, including other architects, the option of making his Green Gauge page a Favorite on their computers, to allow convenient access to the Green Gauge many times over the next several years. This will allow homeowners, developers and architects to educate and model their designs for the benefit of the environment and their pocketbooks when paying their monthly power bills.

Click below for a link to the Green Gauge page on the architect's website http://www.homearchitects.com/green-gauge

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