Sustainability

Kyle Rovinsky Just Listed The Perfect Earth Day Home in Sustainable Montgomery Farm

By Karen Eubank / April 22, 2024 /

It’s Earth Day, and frankly, it’s also Oglesby Day for us! Little did I know when I selected a Bud Oglesby home for our Monday Morning Millionaire that Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate‘s Kyle Rovinsky would also be listing a Montgomery Farm home designed by Oglesby Greene. It is also the first LEED gold-certified home built…

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HiFAB Unveils Modular Home Factory in Grand Prairie as Sales Kick Off For Affordable Units

By April Towery / July 11, 2023 /

Affordable housing just got a little more accessible in Grand Prairie — or really anywhere a plot of land is available.  HiFAB hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday morning at its modular home factory, featuring turnkey homes designed by award-winning Texas architecture firm Lake | Flato.  HiFAB builds single-family modular homes and aims to produce high-design…

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Lake | Flato Teams Up with Oaxaca Interests to Create Environmentally Friendly Modular Homes

By April Towery / September 26, 2022 /

It’s beginning to look a lot like efficiency and affordability are trending in the Dallas-Fort Worth real estate market.  As tiny homes and accessory dwelling units are gaining in popularity, environmentally-friendly modular homes also are entering the scene and making a not-so-tiny splash.  Architecture firm Lake | Flato teamed up with developer Oaxaca Interests to…

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Renewable Energy Revolution Began 150 Years Ago Gets Boost in California

By Jon Anderson / May 18, 2018 /

Part of the age we live in seems to be rediscovering that old ways of doing things were actually better. For example, the recent realization that the makeup of towns to encourage vibrancy through density and the support of multi-income levels versus single-strata communities is better – a millennia-old concept only deviated from with the…

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Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington Leads Nation in LEED-Certified Residential Construction

By Heather Hunter / September 27, 2017 /

Dallas earned a gold star for green building! A new report by Abodo.com ranks the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex tops for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified residential building. In fact, Texas leads the nation with the most LEED-certified residential construction projects by a substantial margin. With 6,945 LEED-certified residential projects underway in Texas, more than…

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