Our mission and vision
Our mission at Healthy Homes Chicago is to build and manage sustainable, durable and affordable pre-fabricated in-fill rental apartment buildings for residents in the Chicagoland area with a zero energy carbon footprint where the annual energy consumption includes the on-site usage, plus all of the primary energy needed to extract, generate, transmit, and distribute those units of energy to the site.
Our vision is that our affordable modular housing will one day be fabricated in our own advanced digital manufacturing facility utilizing robotics and where vocational job training will take place to educate and teach workforce development skills including automation technology to local high-school students, recent graduates and community residents seeking to learn trade skills on how to fabricate (off-site) and install (on-site) the affordable apartment modules within their neighborhoods.
The homes will revolutionize the manufacturing and fabrication model, the renewable energy model and the housing resource consumption model of the current unsustainable construction industry standards. The homes will include technological advances in construction methods and building systems with energy monitoring and life-cycle cost savings for owner and occupants.
Many of the trades used to construct the homes will be drawn from the communities where they are built so the housing life cycle includes training, jobs, housing and neighborhood stability with managed growth for the communities we serve matching or exceeding the City of Chicago .
Each of these in-fill housing sites will be a miniature power producing “plant” that will produce the renewable energies on site through solar roof systems, wind turbines on the external walls, rainwater and gray water management onsite and the geothermal heat underneath the buildings. They will generate enough energy onsite to support the occupants and to sell back to the utility companies the excess energy as another revenue stream for the business model.
Our vision is that our affordable modular housing will one day be fabricated in our own advanced digital manufacturing facility utilizing robotics and where vocational job training will take place to educate and teach workforce development skills including automation technology to local high-school students, recent graduates and community residents seeking to learn trade skills on how to fabricate (off-site) and install (on-site) the affordable apartment modules within their neighborhoods.
The homes will revolutionize the manufacturing and fabrication model, the renewable energy model and the housing resource consumption model of the current unsustainable construction industry standards. The homes will include technological advances in construction methods and building systems with energy monitoring and life-cycle cost savings for owner and occupants.
Many of the trades used to construct the homes will be drawn from the communities where they are built so the housing life cycle includes training, jobs, housing and neighborhood stability with managed growth for the communities we serve matching or exceeding the City of Chicago .
Each of these in-fill housing sites will be a miniature power producing “plant” that will produce the renewable energies on site through solar roof systems, wind turbines on the external walls, rainwater and gray water management onsite and the geothermal heat underneath the buildings. They will generate enough energy onsite to support the occupants and to sell back to the utility companies the excess energy as another revenue stream for the business model.
What is a healthy home?
Healthy & Affordable Communities: a review of how the concept of healthy homes can be expanded block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood and city by city all across our country and around the globe. So many cities are adopting healthy home principles into their building codes and legislative process. Scottsdale Arizona requires all public buildings to be LEED certified Gold level. Calgary has a Healthy Homes Initiative that is open to all of its residence to incorporate many of these healthy homes concepts for all of their residents. A look at some larger community development projects and their successes. How can we bring the concept of affordable healthy homes to Chicago? What specific housing strategies and new prototypes can be adopted to our local climate, materials and resources, zoning constraints and lot selections? The importance of legislation and establishing new standards in housing performance and sustainable principles.
This is about breaking routine and becoming aware of where healthy improvements can be made from the simplest of changes to the more complex concepts which involve our homes, housing design, architectural standards, community and global standards, legislative and governing laws and how we all can be more connected to our roles as stewards of the environment – both our homes indoor environment and our community and global environments. Each decision and routine scales out to that level.
The Healthy Homes Initiative encourages everyone to ask how might we engage and enable communities to take more initiative in making their local environments better and more sustainable?
How might we communicate our mission to encourage, advance, support, enable and make aware the importance of healthy homes and communities throughout Chicagoland?
The idea of a healthy home seems so simple but what does it really mean? What should you be looking for when you go to buy your next home? What about your current home? How healthy is it? Where can you make it healthier? What should you consider when you renovate your existing home to make an educated decision about the impact the materials, design and systems you choose (or which were chosen for us) to operate your home? This also includes the products we buy to maintain our homes or keep them clean and down to the daily practices which becomes routine.
Let us discuss and review the choices we take for granted which can have major consequences on our health, the health of our families, our community and the entire global community. Let us share ideas, resources, methods, links and tools for talking about but most importantly implementing topics related to a sustainable future of our healthy homes, offices, classrooms and communities.
If you're a like-minded individual or company please contact me directly. Let’s move this idea of healthy homes and healthy environments forward.
Live Well. Be Well.
This is about breaking routine and becoming aware of where healthy improvements can be made from the simplest of changes to the more complex concepts which involve our homes, housing design, architectural standards, community and global standards, legislative and governing laws and how we all can be more connected to our roles as stewards of the environment – both our homes indoor environment and our community and global environments. Each decision and routine scales out to that level.
The Healthy Homes Initiative encourages everyone to ask how might we engage and enable communities to take more initiative in making their local environments better and more sustainable?
How might we communicate our mission to encourage, advance, support, enable and make aware the importance of healthy homes and communities throughout Chicagoland?
The idea of a healthy home seems so simple but what does it really mean? What should you be looking for when you go to buy your next home? What about your current home? How healthy is it? Where can you make it healthier? What should you consider when you renovate your existing home to make an educated decision about the impact the materials, design and systems you choose (or which were chosen for us) to operate your home? This also includes the products we buy to maintain our homes or keep them clean and down to the daily practices which becomes routine.
Let us discuss and review the choices we take for granted which can have major consequences on our health, the health of our families, our community and the entire global community. Let us share ideas, resources, methods, links and tools for talking about but most importantly implementing topics related to a sustainable future of our healthy homes, offices, classrooms and communities.
If you're a like-minded individual or company please contact me directly. Let’s move this idea of healthy homes and healthy environments forward.
Live Well. Be Well.