Background

BUILDING THE DREAM | BUILDING THE TEAM

On the leading edge of sustainability and design, award-winning firm Kaplan Thompson Architects founded BrightBuilt Home with the goal of providing more beautiful, healthy and low-energy homes for the American homebuyer. To optimize affordability, we rely heavily on supreme geekery married with years of custom design experience and construction knowledge. Sketches and cost spreadsheets are used hand-in-hand with energy models in order to optimize each home and reduce its carbon footprint.

How do we do it? Certainly not alone. As a partnership between design professionals, modular builders, and site contractors, we can keep our fingers on the pulse of the industry at large.  As a team, we stay current on all aspects of home-building, from design innovations to pricing projections to best construction practices to more!

MASTERS OF MODULAR

Our preferred prefabricated homebuilders have known for years how to produce cost-effective homes that balance the logistics of off-site construction with resource-saving efficiency. With their list of New England’s top modular building partners, they have produced LEED-quality homes for years, and were one of the first modular homebuilders to offer non-toxic, higher performance, dense-pack cellulose insulation. Together with Kaplan Thompson Architects, a system was developed that locates that elusive sweet spot in new construction – the intersection of low energy and low cost.

GURUS ON SITE

Whether you choose to go with modular construction or site building, we can help recommend a solid group of experienced professionals to help prep and finish your home.  Drawing from the deep bench of our network of high performance manufacturers, Kaplan Thompson’s project builders, and an extensive Rolodex of talented subcontractors and specialists, we want to help give you the resources you need to build the team you want to put out on the field.

ENERGY BUFFS

Where would we be without nerds?  BrightBuilt Home owes its exceptional performance standards to the (said in nerdy voice): “tweaks”, “analysis”, “data entry”, “calculations”, and “statistical conclusions” of our extensive energy models.  The nerd squad is here to serve. We want to create for you the best “metrics-focused hemispherically-oriented energy-optimized maximally-pristine high-performance domicile ” – aka home – that we possibly can.