Deltec Homes

When Feng Shui Master and interior designer Jami Lin decided to build her own home, she and her husband chose a Deltec round home for several reasons, including the importance of circles for good Feng Shui.

“Circles have always been the shape of people’s homes up until the advent of hand-made bricks. Since ancient times circles are symbolic of Heaven, Wholeness and Completion,” she explained.

Feng Shui incorporates nature’s principles in perfect harmony with modern living; it emulates nature’s perfection. Good Feng Shui in a home includes bringing natural light and nature inside where possible. “Just like Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture brought the outdoors inside, Deltec allows you to do that because you can design expansive panoramas with windows,” said Jami Lin.  

The number eight brings good fortune in Feng Shui, and the wall panels used to build a Deltec Home are eight feet wide. The number eight also figures prominently in steps Jami Lin created for her home.

The flexibility of Deltec Home interiors also offered several different ways to accommodate good Feng Shui. For example, Jami Lin’s master bedroom design includes options for bed placement. Deltec offers great flexibility for designing as well as for placement of furniture and rearranging. The placement of furniture and other objects is sometimes appropriate for good Feng Shui.”

Jami Lin and her husband decided on a Deltec Home after much research. “Aesthetically they are pretty cool,” she said. “We knew they were hurricane resistant and if necessary we could live off the grid. I also believe Deltec really cares about their product and the people who live in them.”

See Jami’s step-by-step design and construction process here.

On Tuesday February 23,2010, the Asheville Chamber of Commerce presented Deltec Homes with their annual Operating Green award. This award is a tribute to companies utilizing environmentally-sound practices in their day to day operations. The award showcases the commitment, innovation and leadership of local companies in green and sustainable business practices.

We are deeply honored to receive this award as we strive toward our mission of building a better home. Deltec produces the only homes in the world built with 100% renewable energy. In addition, our comprehensive waste reduction and recycling initiatives allow us to produce 78% less waste than a stick-built home. We are currently undertaking a new initiative aimed at furthering our waste reduction toward our goal of zero-waste manufacturing.

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Deltec’s green building department is available for any questions you have about the sustainable attributes of the Deltec Home and beyond. Feel free to call us at 800-642-2508 or drop a line at slinton@deltechomes.com.

It wasn’t that many years ago when homeowners wanted just as much square footage as they could possibly get. A two story foyer, lots of bedrooms and baths, a library, gym, and office; the list seemed endless.. That trend seems to be shifting as the Baby Boomers are entering their retirement years. It is no more about “bigger is better” but how can they maximize less.

These homeowners are far more focused on energy savings, durability, sustainability and low maintenance. They simply don’t see the need for the high cost of maintaining and paying for more space than they need.

The “Open” Floor plan or “Great” room concept of combining living, dining and kitchen is now the most desirable. Homeowners can socialize, entertain or even watch TV while cooking. These rooms are generally multi function rooms cutting down on the need for additional space. 

Deltec’s round shape minimizes exterior walls that are exposed to the outside elements while maximizing the interior living floor space.  In addition, there are no interior supporting walls so homeowners have total design flexibility and all the open space they want. 

Want to learn more on how to incorporate all the features of open space modern living  that’s environmentally conscious and affordable? Visit the website or contact a Deltec Homes sales associate today. For over 40 years, Deltec has been building energy efficient, simple to build, built to last round homes.

 The interactive map highlights just a small sampling of the thousands of homes Deltec has built and shipped worldwide since 1968.

Click on any blue, green, or red leaf in the map and a picture/description/home details will appear. Blue leaves denote homes with amazing views, green leaves show homes that are eco-friendly and red leaves highlight pictures and homeowners comments about how their Deltec survived a hurricane.

Click here to check it out now. We are very excited about this new feature to our website.

Many homeowners find Deltec because of its incredible resistance to high winds. Other homeowners seek out the extraordinary energy efficiency of a round home. But where do these two concepts meet?

This Deltec home built in 2000 survived hurricanes Ivan, Dennis, and Katrina.

Prompted by a string of natural disasters over the last several years, the green building industry has begun to explore home resiliency as a key feature of sustainable homes. The concept, coined “passive survivability”, essentially looks at how well a home will perform in stressful situations. For instance, if a home loses power and fuel after an ice storm, how well will the home function? Homes designed with this robustness in mind will be better suited to changing events in terms of weather, energy, people, and changing times.

Many of our homeowners come to Deltec with a keen interest in producing their own electricity, living off the grid, or simply reducing vulnerability to forces outside their control. In addition to considering on-site power generation, there are many tenets of passive survivability to consider when you are designing your home. The following list was adapted from Environmental Building News:

• Creating storm-resilient buildings
• Installing a high performance building envelope
• Minimizing cooling loads
• Providing for natural ventilation
• Incorporating passive solar heating
• Providing natural daylighting
• Utilizing solar water heating
• Availability of wood heating
• Collecting rainwater on site

Deltec delivers on many of these design principles by providing the next generation of home: one that is safe from high winds, saves money on energy bills year after year, is built to last, offers complete design flexibility, and treads lightly on the earth. Deltec’s green building department is here to help you put these ideas into practice.

Daniel and Indira Moskowitz, a Deltec homeowner, makes the news in newsday.com. Their finished circular home is a 2,600-square-foot, two-story home with a cathedral ceiling and loft on a quarter acre of land. It has an open floor plan with the kitchen flowing into the living room. An additional 1,500 square feet of space is in the basement. The Moskowitz’s are hoping to move into their new Deltec home by the end of February 2010. Read the full story here.

We frequently get this question from customers.  Deltec has taken the hard part out of the construction of a circular home.  Our highly engineered panelized building system has made it easy to assemble by your local builder at your home site.  We ship your Deltec home, cost effectively, via tractor trailers or by rail with complete inventory list and all the instructions.   Deltec, also, has onsite building consultants that can be made available.

Once the Deltec shell is assembled, the interior finish is just simple carpentry.  A Deltec home should be very competitive in cost to other custom homes in your area with similar finishes and features.

Remember, even though a Deltec home is not a conventional home, it is still build in a very conventional manner.

Our hearts and prayers continue to go out to everyone in Haiti. 

The disaster has prompted what the Red Cross calls the greatest deployment of emergency responders in its 91-year history. Nations around the world have offered what they can: more than $500 million from European nations, money even from impoverished Chad and Congo, and a ton of tea from Sri Lanka.

The U.N.’s World Food Program said it has distributed more than 1.4 million food rations — each with three meals, and has a fleet of trucks bringing food and supplies from the Dominican Republic.

Please continue to give whatever support you can to this impoverished country devastated by the earthquake. Their needs will continue for a long time. Deltec Homes is a proud supporter of the American Red Cross.

On Jan 23 and 24,2010 there will be over 80 people attending the Deltec homebuilding seminar at the Crowne Plaza Hotel and Resort in beautiful Asheville, NC.  Some of the attendees are taking advantage of an opportuntiy to stay in a Deltec home right on the grounds of the Crowne Plaza. 

During this FREE, fun and informative homebuilding weekend seminar people will see for themselves what makes Deltec and our building system so special, unique, energy efficient and simple to build. The attendees will enjoy meeting and sharing ideas with other people from all over the country that are considering building a Deltec.

“The Deltec presentations and your people know your products well, are very informative, answered questions well and were also very friendly. The no pressure thing is good. We had a great time and look forward to working with you.” -Mark

Anyone considering building in the next 24 months, is invited to come to any of our FREE Deltec homebuilding seminars that are conducted 6 times/year. For more information, click here.

Seminar Dates for 2010

• January 23 and 24, 2010
• March 20 and 21, 2010
• May 15 and 16, 2010
• July 24 and 25, 2010
• September 18 and 19, 2010
• November 13 and 14, 2010

Brr.. it’s cold outside.  This new year is starting off with brutally cold temperatures in the eastern half of the United States and expected to last for at least the next two weeks.  Right now it’s 22 degrees at our headquarters in Asheville, NC and that is not factoring in the wind chill factor!  The best place to be during this wintry weather is inside a warm, cozy Deltec home.  If you are thinking of building a Deltec in 2010, contact us soon. Many months in 2010 are already at full production capacity.

Make Energy Efficiency In Your New Home A Priority

Heating and cooling energy use is the largest energy user in a typical home and the more drafty a home is the higher your bills will be and the less comfortable you will feel. You need a tight building envelope that separates the conditioned space inside the home from the outside environment. It typically consists of walls, windows and doors, the foundation and the ceiling or the roof. 

There are a few things to know about the building envelope:

           It must be continuous. Any gaps in the building envelope can have a large effect on the total performance of the home.

           It needs to both insulating and air-tight.  Insulation alone is not enough to create a building envelope. It must be used in conjunction with an effective air barrier to stop air from leaking through the insulation and reducing its

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