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Green Cabins, Green Company

 

Cabin Fever takes a leadership role in social and environmental responsibility while providing sustainable structures that meet or exceed your needs. Practicing sustainability guides our thinking and directs our actions in all our relationships with the economy, the environment and society. We strive to contribute to a healthy planet, investing in our employees and in the communities where we live and do business. Cabin Fever is committed to reducing our carbon footprint. Our company’s sustainable operational practices include the wise use of energy and recycling programs for building materials, paper, and bottles.

Green Design

Cabin Fever is committed to maximizing every opportunity to make greener, smarter, and environmentally responsible products. Our LEED-certified architect approaches every project with sustainability firmly in mind.

Our prefab cabins and cottages are ‘system built’ structures, manufactured to precise specifications in a controlled factory environment. This approach yields many opportunities to exercise sustainable and environmentally responsible business practices. For example, since we build from many standardized components used in several of our building models and sizes, we are able to be extremely precise with material procurement and preparation. This results in minimal material wastage and landfill contribution at both the factory and the project site. At our factory, we use a local work-force whose average commuting distance is less than 5 miles, further reducing our overall carbon footprint.

As much as possible, we use certified green building materials and we are constantly seeking out new, smarter, and greener materials to incorporate into our designs. For example, our floor joists are made of Timber-Strand Wood, a product that uses 100% of the wood log and, because it come from a more juvenile tree, the harvesting practice produces more wood per acre per year compared to traditional mature tree harvesting. Similarly, we use Southern Yellow Pine as the main wood product in our buildings. This wood is harvested regionally from responsibly managed sustainable forests.

Our roof is rated as a “cool-roof” by the National Roofing Council. It is a very smart roofing solution that allows for significantly less energy consumption for heating and cooling. A cool-roof helps keep a naturally cool interior in warm months by reflecting heat away from the structure rather than absorbing it, while its insulative properties prevent heat from escaping during the winter.

Our windows and doors feature insulated thermal glass which greatly improves the efficiency of heating and cooling systems, thus saving energy. Our structures are designed to work with nature by incorporating facades with generous glass doors to leverage passive solar opportunities, and strategically placed windows and vents to encourage natural air circulation. We also offer a raised foundation option that allows for further cooling air circulation beneath the structure.

Off the Grid

“Off-The-Grid” refers to living in a self-sufficient manner without reliance on one or more public utility services. Whether you have a remote property without hook-ups, or you just love the idea of living an independent and environmentally conscious lifestyle, we can help you achieve your self-sufficiency goals.

We fully embrace off-grid and self-sufficiency projects and we can accommodate your alternative energy and utility solutions into our highly individualized prefab packages. While, in most cases, we do not provide the equipment itself, we do work to give you the information, options, and the support you will need. We partner with various alternative solution companies and can help you specify and choose the right products. We then develop your prefab cabin or cottage to accommodate your chosen equipment.

Below are some areas where we can help you to get off-the-grid.