Our Founder and CEO, Ted L. Clifton, has been quietly designing and constructing Energy Efficient Homes for more than thirty years.  Educated at Berkeley, California, Ted has worked in every phase of construction at a journeyman level, and knows first-hand what it takes to construct a quality home.  Having built homes, and commercial and institutional buildings, Ted has the advantage of extensive knowledge of the means and methods used in all three.  He also has worked in three very different climate zones, from the foothills of California, to Ketchikan, Alaska, to Whidbey Island, Washington.

In the year 2001, as President of his local Homebuilders Association, Ted provided the first push to establish the Skagit-Island Counties Builders Association Built Green® program, which he now chairs.  Ted is also Vice President of Built Green® Washington, and has been instrumental in the establishment and expansion of the Green Building movement in the State of Washington.  Ted received accreditation to teach both Green Building and Building Codes & Standards for the National Association of Homebuilders, and has taught the two-day Green Building for Building Professionals course up and down the West Coast of the United States.

Many of the attendees of Ted's Green Building classes have asked if they could purchase his plans, so as not to have to "re-invent the wheel".  Since Ted's construction company, CVH Inc., is a custom homebuilder, each of his plans had been built only once.  Good design should not be left gathering dust on the shelf!  This website is our response to the need for sound, easy to build, mainstream Zero-Energy Plans.

We will be adding plans to this site from other well qualified designers.  If you are a designer of Zero-Energy Plans, and you wish to make your plans available through this site, please contact ted@zero-energyplans.com

On May 10, 2008, Ted attended the first graduation and reception for Certified Green Professionals.  Ted has not only earned this designation himself, but has taught the required Green Building for Building Professionals class to a number of other receipients of this prestigious new NAHB Designation.  "This was one of the proudes moments of my career, to receive this Professional Designation in company with several members of the classes I taught.  Making a difference is what it is all about!"  Our thoughts, exactly!