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Some housing plans from my own research, as a young contractor looking to build in peak price leafland.

- people don't think enough about solar orientation. You want the sun in your kitchen in the morning, you want it bringing heat in through big south facing windows in the winter.

- planting deciduous trees to shade your house in summer is equally important.

- basements are absolutely a waste, exposes your family to radon and other poison gasses the earth farts up. You can vapor proof and vent, but nobody actually does it. Its the second leading cause of lung cancer.

- earthworks (moving dirt) to keep plants watered and your home dry is often ignored or not given enough though in precon.

- icf is now about the same cost as lumber, you would be dumb not to hire an icf specialist in this market for a new build.