Landicity Builders

Landicity® Builders

We build affordable, high performance, ultra-efficient, healthy (fresh air) homes.

Landicity®-Builders (Landicity-Maine LLC)works with Unity Homes — a renowned home builder providing green, highly-engineered, high-performance designed homes to maximize healthy living space while minimizing footprint and environmental impact. Check out “This Old House” Unity factory video

YANKEE GREEN IS:
AN AFFORDABLE HOUSE. COMPARED TO A CONVENTIONAL STICK-BUILT NEW HOME, IRC 2018+ STANDARDS, A "YANKEE GREEN HIGH-PERFORMANCE HOME" IS NOW TRENDING AT 2%-5% MORE BUT WITH SIGNIFICANT MONTHLY DOLLAR SAVINGS. OVERALL IT IS LESS EXPENSIVE.

"Yankee Green High Performance" maximizes the land, siting, resources, and money to create a sustainable home environment that is healthy, comfortable, airtight, and durable and energy efficient. It is simply common sense, net energy or not, solar or not!
Whole system approach – All variables – house, energy, perma-culture, neighborhood, terrain, sun
Envelope – framing, water flow, air flow, penetrations, wall/roof system, energy tested
Ultra-efficient – comparative to old school thinking; water vapor barrier, highly tight and insulated; blower tested
Manufactured UNITY HOMES – highly engineered – double-walled, walls, complete panels, and high-tech manufactured systems. These homes are not your father’s Buick. Highly advanced and no longer mean a double wide.

Just because a home is built "new" does not mean it is actually new. Most builders in the Maine Mid-Coast area may tell you they build to the latest, most current building codes. They do because Maine only requires the older IRC 2009 as current and these are the least, minimal standards one must build to.

Many builders are likely using 10 to 13-year-old minimal standards and are behind the technology. Much has changed since 2009. Maine is just now transitioning to 2015 IRC in the coming year (2021). However, Maine may exempt the new code for testing, keeping the 2009 IRC 7 ACH50 “big hole” specification. 2009 IRC is 7 ACH50, a very big hole in the wall. The 2015 IRC is smaller but still a significant hole with 3 ACH50. Our recent NEW house tested at 0.7 ACH50. One IRC standard hole is ~ 3 sqft; one is 1 sqft, while our equivalent hole is the size of a dryer vent opening. That is Passive Haus standards at 0.6 ACH50. The highest building standard.

One cannot take a traditional stick-built design and "super insulate it" and expect excellent results. The home must be properly and professionally designed from the beginning to be high performance along with the correctly matched energy and fresh air healthy systems.

Ask your builder to provide all his past blower test results. If he cannot show you, he is not blower testing or is testing above 1 ACH50, we suggest you find another qualified builder.

Landicity®-Builders builds to and exceeds the most current IRC 2018+ standards with continual upgrades and improvements. While many other builders may not blower test, we do blower test with outstanding results, at or below 1 ACH50. New 2018+ IRC standards are being adopted by many states and we incorporate them.

For more information
Call Bob Muller
Ph. 207-956-0699 or email landicity@gmail.com

House Built on ~2.1 acres, Brunswick, Maine

~3,100 SF, 2 car garage, covered timber-frame porch, large deck, full walkout basement, 4 baths, 1st-floor master bedroom

**Engineering 3D-VARM Model of New House Being Built - Rose Douglas Lane, Brunswick, Maine - May-June Completion**

BRUNSWICK, MAINE LOTS

Landicity® Builders currently has lots available in the new Douglas Ridge Estates development. We will build your green, ultra-efficient, healthy home on a beautiful lot. Visit the Real Estate page for more details. Be in your home by Summer 2018!

GREEN HOMES

We are proud to work with one of the world's best green home builders and manufacturers, Unity Homes. Utilizing building practices from across the world, these homes are built to last for hundreds of years with the highest green standards.

LANDICITY-MAINE, LLC

Landicity® Builders builds high performance, highly engineered homes in Mid-Coast Maine and the surrounding locations.. Our team includes experienced builders and engineers, all committed to healthy, green homes; ready to help you build the ultra-efficient home of your dreams.

The Värm

A UNITY HOMES MODEL

The Värm is an extremely flexible design platform that can be configured to look like a classic colonial, country farmhouse, basic barn, or even a clean modernist home.

The Värm takes full advantage of our integrated building components. The platform easily accommodates—or you can add-on later—connected porches, garages, sunscreen overhangs, or even a hip roof. It’s an excellent choice for owners who need a home office, or for larger families in which being able to have separate living areas can be essential.

The design also works well at various lengths, and the full-height second story maximizes living space, which is particularly helpful when your building site is limited. At the same time, Värms offer plenty of roof area so you can easily achieve Net-Zero energy requirements with photovoltaics.

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The Tradd

A UNITY HOMES MODEL

The Tradd platform is essentially a classic New England “Cape” raised to a full two stories, with the second level organized under the roofline.

A basic Tradd is about 2000 square feet, has two to four bedrooms, and usually features two or three full baths and a half-bath. But we can easily integrate additional bedrooms, baths, and floor space. Other options include covered or screen porches, different types of dormers, various entry styles, attached garages, and one-level connectors. This interior can be designed with vaulted spaces and private nooks, all while meeting our stringent goals for efficiency. It’s also the platform that can feature exposed timber framing throughout. So you can have the timelessness of timber-frame design while meeting the latest energy-efficiency standards.

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The Xyla

A UNITY HOMES MODEL

Live Large in a Small One-story Space

The Xyla is designed so you can “live large” in a small, extremely energy-efficient one-story space. Connectors, laundry rooms, garages, art studios, and other separate rooms can be added to expand this platform to fit your needs. The lowest-cost platform, Xyla homes typically range from 1,100 to 1,600 square feet, and have 2-3 bedrooms and 1-2 baths. Built low to the ground, they combine natural light with deep overhangs for additional shade in the summer.

When the first Xyla was built across the river in Vermont, it was tested by Efficiency Vermont and received a Home Energy Rating System (HERS) score of 44, and a 5-Star-Plus Certification for excellence in energy efficiency. That’s 86% more efficient than the average American home. In terms of air infiltration, it tested at .51 ACH50, which is almost 20% better than the stringent Passive House standard.

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The Zum

A Unity Homes Model

Zūm - Open and Modern

A modern design, the Zūm’s open-plan living space can be configured in many ways to separate public and private spaces. The airtight construction virtually eliminates drafts and outside noise. Plus, since it’s designed and oriented to maximize natural light and solar gain, the temperature remains even, something that’s typically hard to achieve in a one-story home.

The Zūm evolved from a collaboration that began in 2006 between Bensonwood Homes, MIT’s Open Source Building Alliance, and other industry partners who came together to start the Open Prototype Initiative (OPI). The prototype Zūm was an energy-efficient modern-style home we built in Maine for the President of Unity College. Since the college’s focus is environmental studies, the home had to achieve both Net-Zero and LEED Platinum ratings.

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Douglas Ridge Estates

Brunswick, Maine

The Douglas Ridge Estates Development

Located in the coastal community of Brunswick, Maine, Douglas Ridge offers the latest in green, ultra-efficient, sustainable home design crafted by the renowned Unity Homes. Each home features a flexible grid building design bringing the best building practices across the world together in the the homes.

Douglas Ridge offers seventeen home lots and green home designs featuring a variety of styles, built with the highest quality standards and always with green, sustainable materials.

Extraordinarily comfortable. Superb indoor air quality.
Net-zero, ultra-efficiency. Highly-efficient. Healthy Homes.

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What if you have your own land or prefer privacy...?

Contact us. We are preferred builders, and offer general contractor services. Click **HIRE US** in the menu.