BrightBuilt Barn

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BrightBuilt Barn is a Net Zero, LEED Platinum home in Rockport, Maine, completed in 2008 to demonstrate certain principles of sustainable building design and construction. It was named the Most Innovative Home Project of the Year by the U.S. Green Building Council{{Cite web |last=Benfield |first=F. Kaid |date=2010-03-18 |title=Village Green: It's Time to Update What Constitutes a 'Green Building' |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/village-green-its-time-to_b_422992 |access-date=2023-05-05 |website=HuffPost |language=en}} and was featured in The New York Times,{{Cite news |last=Kurutz |first=Steven |date=2009-01-15 |title=When Its Mood Is Green, So Are You |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/garden/15tools.html |access-date=2023-05-05 |issn=0362-4331}} and a short documentary film.{{Cite web |title=Green Synergy: The Story of Bright Built Barn |url=https://daleschierholt.com/bright-built-barn |access-date=2023-05-05 |website=Schierholt Pictures |language=en-US}} It is the subject of a 10-year retrospective review in the upcoming Northeast Sustainable Energy Association annual meeting in March 2018.{{Cite web |title=The BrightBuilt Barn 10th Anniversary: Celebrating the Birth of Affordable, Off-Site-Built Net Zero and the Industry Change It Spawned |url=https://nesea.org/session/brightbuilt-barn-10-year-anniversary-celebrating-birth-affordable-site-built-net-zero-and |access-date=2023-05-05 |website=Northeast Sustainable Energy Association}}

The project's goals were to demonstrate the principles of sustainable building for future structures and to bring together a critical mass of green designers and builders to help create an "ecosystem" of green buildings in Maine, modeled on the ecosystem of technology start-ups in Silicon Valley.