Each Paragon kit is engineered from scratch to meet your
particular needs. The flexibility of our home package allows you
to:
- Customize your home in any manner: No
style, type or size is beyond Paragon’s reach
- Mix and match building systems: For
example, adding a timber component to a conventional design
- Specify your own materials: Such as
specifying healthy and environmentally friendly products
- Take advantage of specific building systems:
Concrete, steel, log, timber, hybrid, super-insulated
- Choose and shop for your own finish items:
Such as kitchen and bath cabinets, fixtures, shelving, stairs
and railings
In 2008,
Paragon made
the decision to design and build our product line exclusively with
energy star
standard and up, to include energy efficient accessories in all of
our home Package-Kits as a standard and modify our designs and
plans to incorporate pre-engineered walls & hybrid construction.
All of our
home packages
now include fully
pre-engineered floor systems
and
roof
trusses.
All of our home packages & Kits are available in conventional
or Hybrid (Green) construction, log and hybrid Timber frame.
They include Energuide rated above 80 - Carbon Neutral -
Reduced Greenhouse gas emissions - Meets and beats the one-ton
challenge!
THIS IS THE HOUSE YOU CAN BUILD
WITH PARAGON:
SQUARE—every corner 90 degrees
TRUE—no twisting, warping, or splitting
TIGHT—window and door headers can be fit airtight
STRONG—shear walls that bend but don’t break
FLAT—walls that don’t pop or crack
STRAIGHT—columns and beams that stay straight
SMOOTH—cabinets and counter tops fit snug
QUIET—floor & staircase systems designed to be quieter
SOLID—a difference you can feel in every component
- Carbon Negative
That means we absorb
more CO2 from the atmosphere than we produce. During
photosynthesis, trees absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas,
from the air and give off oxygen. iLevel wood products
continue to store carbon during their useful life, limiting
the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In 2008 the
products we manufactured stored the equivalent of 7.7 million
metric tons of CO2.
- Resource Efficient
On average, we
use 99% of each log to produce iLevel and Weyerhaeuser wood
products, additional wood products, and energy. And our
engineered wood products are made using advance technologies
that allow us to take wood fiber from trees less suitable for
structural lumber and efficiently turn them into strong,
predictable building materials.
- Low Emitting
Urea formaldehyde
resins are not added to any of our products. Concerns about
off-gassing from urea formaldehyde have led to limits on
emissions, most notably by the California Air Resources Board
(CARB). iLevel engineered wood products are exempt from
requirements of CARB. Consult our materials and safety data
sheets (MSDS) for more details or download iLevel’s Q&A on
adhesives and formaldehyde.
- Renewable
Trees from sustainably
managed forests are a renewable resource and all of
Weyerhaeuser’s North American timberlands are certified to
either the Sustainable Forestry Initiative
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Standards Association (CSA/Z809) Sustainable Forestry
Management standard.
- Certified to Sustainable Forestry Standards
iLevel products are independently certified to either
SFI or CSA/Z809. Having our products certified to these
standards indicates that iLevel has lived up to the highest
criteria for obtaining the raw materials that go into making
our products. Independent certification also provides our
customers with the assurance that iLevel follows responsible
purchasing practices.
- Made Using Renewable Energy
More
than half of the energy needed to make iLevel building
materials comes from by-products of the manufacturing process.
GREEN BUILDING
Green building focuses on how effectively structures and the
sites they are built on use energy, water and materials. This
includes every step of the building process, as well as ongoing
requirements during a structure’s life.
The goal is to enhance human health and the environment by
focusing on site selection, building design, construction methods,
operating systems, maintenance and waste.
Environmental profiles and life-cycle assessments are common
methods for comparing environmental performance among green
building materials. These methods rely on accurate and detailed
data gathered during the course of a product’s life.
Independent reviews of these life-cycle assessments show that
wood requires less energy to produce and provides better
insulation from cold and heat than alternative materials. The
Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials found
that in a typical home, wood construction offers the following
advantages:
- 17 percent less energy needed than steel
- 16 percent less energy needed than concrete
- 26 percent less greenhouse gases generated than steel
- 31 percent less greenhouse gases generated than concrete
Wood also generated fewer air pollutants.
Additionally, Paragon Homes via Weyerhaeuser’s / ILevel wood
products are made from trees harvested from forests certified by
third parties as sustainably managed. These wood products store
carbon during their useful life, limiting the amount of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere.
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