McGee House

The McGee Salvage House is one of the most thoroughly green houses in the Bay Area. It is a 1,190 square-foot, 2 bedroom urban infill, newly constructed single family home in the heart of one of Berkeley’s oldest residential neighborhoods, near the downtown core. While achieving high energy performance goals, meticulous attention was also paid to aesthetics and to the toxicity and embodied energy of materials, relying heavily on salvaged materials to achieve these goals. The house was completed in 2010. Cost of construction was typical of other custom wood frame homes of this size.