Building the Future -- Embracing Sustainable Technology

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Josh Somes is taking on the ultimate home renovation challenge: turning a drafty, derelict century-old Midtown house into a paragon of energy efficiency.

"It was a Cooper-Young house that had been on the market for well over a year when I found it," said Somes, owner of Sustain Studio, a design-build firm. "I found what I thought could become one of the best houses on the block, but it was currently one of the worst houses on the block."

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Building the Future -- Embracing Sustainable Technology

And if it can become green, he figures, any house can.

Somes, who has a background in architecture and sits on the board of the U.S. Green Building Council's Memphis chapter, is one of a growing number of building professionals looking to transform residential construction into a greener...

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