Conventional Home Packages-Kits
We are pleased to offer you what we believe to represent the best value and quality in home packages. Whether you are looking at traditional construction, pre-engineered systems, log or timber frame, we have something for you!
All our home packages provide you with everything that is necessary to build your new home so there are no surprises. And they feature the finest materials from the most reputable suppliers in order to ensure a better quality, more energy efficient home. A stick-frame built home is a valid choice for ensuring excellent value for your dollar. Our own family of home packages is designed for the client seeking something “off-spec”, whether it is related to design, energy efficiency, materials or construction techniques. A Paragon kit is engineered from scratch to meet these needs and includes full design conceptualization and plans, and a broad selection of material and construction techniques. In a nutshell, a Paragon is always what you want it to be.
Have a look at our home Package Inclusions and Options…
Each Paragon kit is engineered from scratch to meet your particular needs. The flexibility of our home package allows you to:
1- Customize your home in any manner: No style, type or size is beyond Paragon’s reach
2- Mix and match building systems: For example, adding a timber component to a conventional design
3- Specify your own materials: Such as specifying healthy and environmentally friendly products
4- Take advantage of specific building systems: Concrete, steel, log, timber, hybrid, super-insulated
5- 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 homes Packages-Kit as a standard and modify our designs and plans to incorporate hybrid construction. All of our home packages now include fully pre-engineered floor systems and roof trusses.
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 and staircase systems designed to be quieter
• SOLID: A difference you can feel in every component
• Carbon NegativeThat 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
Need link: 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.
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!
