CornerStone Custom Builders – Eagle River, WI Green Building - CornerStone Custom Builders

CornerStone Custom Builders Inc. is one of only three builders in the state of Wisconsin nationally recognized to build and certify a NAHB Green Built Home. Additionally the GreenStone is the only home in northern Wisconsin to be nationally recognized as a NAHB Green Built Home.

What is Green Building?

Green Building is a blend of both socially responsible and advanced building products and practices working together to reach a singular goal: an eco-friendly, efficient, sustainable, and healthy home. Simply put “A home that creates a smaller carbon foot print during construction, uses less energy and natural resources, while providing a healthier environment to live in.”

What is a Green Built home?

A green built home is a performance driven home that benefits from an active partnership between the homeowner and the builder throughout the entire designing and building process.

What are the benefits of Building Green?

A green built home provides a healthy, safe, and comfortable environment for your family to live in while lowering your overall operating costs. Green built homes are the socially responsible alternative to conventional building practices, products, and use of our natural resources.

How building green can save you money: (efficiency)

Water sense plumbing fixtures
Energy star appliances and lighting fixtures
Professionally designed heating and cooling system
Labor and material savings with “Open wall component building systems”

How green building products promotes a healthier home environment: (comfort & safety)

Selection of non toxic materials and low VOC paints
Selection of anti-microbial products used in wet areas
Selection of hardwood and tile floors that are easily cleaned and sanitized
Selection of low formaldehyde products reducing new house smell, improving air quality

How green building exercises environmentally friendly practices: (sustainability)

Water conservation
Reduce solid wastes
Energy conservation
Regionally selected products

For more information on CornerStone Custom Builders’ Green Built Home, click here.

Based off of our standard building specifications, we have created a new set of Green Built specifications that gives our homeowners the option to certify their home or not. We are committed to providing our homeowners with a healthier, more comfortable, and energy efficient home that will last them a lifetime.

Glenn Schiffmann - President, CornerStone Custom Builders

Northland Pines School District

This partnership ties together several core elements across the technology engineering department’s curriculum. It exemplifies rigor and relevance for any student who has the desire and drive to explore a future in design, engineering, project management, entrepreneurship, or specialized trade within the construction field.

Glenn Schiffmann

"Based off of our standard building specifications, we have created a new set of Green Built specifications that gives our homeowners the option to certify their home or not. We are committed to providing our homeowners with a healthier, more comfortable, and energy efficient home that will last them a lifetime."

Cheryl and Tony Lemke

Words can’t express the joy and contentment we feel every time we come “home” to our custom built home be CornerStone. Cheryl’s design is superb; the carpentry work is gorgeous; overall very solid construction, and compliments too numerous to count over the years.

Thank you to your team for working with us.

Dennis & Martha Westerfield

Building with CornerStone has been a great experience and we recommend your company to others interested in building a quality home. The advice you gave us, knowledge of construction, permits, etc., made this an easy and rewarding adventure. You were always on top of everything. The team of contractors who work with CornerStone is also an exceptional crew. They were skilled, courteous, and left nothing undone. Our cabin turned out to be more than we had expected and hoped for.

Nationally recognized for our Green built homes.