A Malibu mansion built with sustainable timber and recycled concrete has gone up for sale for a whopping $32million and aims to become California's first 'zero-carbon' home by offsetting construction emissions with carbon sequestering materials like sustainable timber sourced from California or FSC certified forests locally in the USA.
The 14,000-square-foot house was developed by Crown Pointe Estates and features six bedrooms, a home theater and a wine cellar - all constructed from recycled and sustainable materials.
Appliances were specifically chosen lower the home's carbon emissions, and developers purposely used materials that would make up for the carbon let off during construction.
Developers will need to submit 12 months of utility bills to the International Living Future Institute in Seattle, Washington, in order to be granted California's first official 'zero-carbon' certification. It is unclear if or when that lofty goal will actually be achievable, experts say.
The 14,000-square-foot home sits in an exclusive 80-acre development in Malibu, California
Developers at Crown Pointe Estates deliberately chose materials to offset CO2 emissions
The modern ranch-style house sits on 2.48 acres in the luxury community of MariSol Malibu, which only hosts nine completed homes across 80 acres.
It features six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a home theater, a wine cellar, an electric car-charging station, a putting green, a bocce court and a saltwater pool.
Instead of 80,000 pounds of steel, developers turned to sustainable timber. Instead of concrete, they used a crawl-space foundation. And instead of a concrete subfloor under the wood and stone floors, they used a rubber underlay made from recycled tires.
About 25 percent of the concrete used was recycled, and the crawl-space foundation reduced their total use of concrete by 14 percent.
Developers switched up the design, using sustainable timber instead of 80,000 pounds of steel to lower the carbon footprint
Crown Pointe cut its concrete by 14 percent with a crawl-space foundation. About 25 percent of all concrete was recycled
More developers are looking to offset the carbon emissions produced during construction of their homes
