Mountain Life Companies Wins Home of the Year Award from Green Builder

Magazine

The latest real estate development from The Mountain Life Companies has earned the highest of
recognition from Green Builder Magazine as winner of The Green Home of The Year. Green
Builder Media’s annual Home of the Year and Sustainability Awards recognize the industry’s most
authentic, advanced, beautiful, sustainable projects and the professionals who design and construct
them.

Breckenridge, CO, January 22, 2019 --(PR.com)-- Green Builder Media recently announced the winners
of its 11th Annual Green Home of the Year Awards recognizing this past year's best newly built green
homes from across the nation.

Everyone at the Mountain Life Companies is so proud to announce that they have been honored with the
Green Home of the Year Award for their Epic Homes of Breckenridge, Colorado.

Green Builder Media's annual Home of the Year and Sustainability Awards recognize the industry's most
authentic, advanced, beautiful and sustainable projects and the professionals who design and construct
them, and are looking for the stand-out best green homes that include sustainable features, innovative
design, whole home performance and integration with the natural environment.

Upon learning that their latest project won the 2019 Green Home of the Year Award, Garratt Hasenstab,
President of the Mountain Life Companies and Director of Development with Mountain Life
Development Group said, “We are so honored and humbled for this incredible recognition by such an
industry media staple, Green Builder Magazine. Our steadfast goal is to consistently raise the bar when it
comes to the sustainability and livability of our real estate developments. To earn the Home of the Year
Award is an honor that inspires us to continue serving as an exemplar for our industry and as a beacon for
sustainable design and construction with every new development we undertake.”

About The Integrated Development Team

Behind the scenes were several groups of talented people forming the comprehensive, integrated design
and construction team hand-picked by Garratt Hasenstab and his business partner Gregory Jordan.

First is the incredible team at Heritage Homes of Nebraska, the prefabrication plant where all of the major
construction components were constructed off-site. Their dedication to building green and ultra-efficient
far exceeds any other pre-fab builder we have worked with or discussed projects with in the past,” said
Garratt Hasenstab. Heritage Homes of Nebraska built all of the modules for this development and worked
closely as an integral part of the design and construction team to ensure that these homes achieved the
highest possible energy ratings and sustainability certifications through their hard work and dedication to
the project.

Also behind the scenes, the experts at globally renowned sustainability consulting firm Verdigris Group
worked closely with the development team guiding and implementing the fully-integrated sustainability

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efforts for this development, from design and planning through construction to ensure that the incredibly
high efficiency and sustainability standards established at the outset of the project were achieved.
Verdigris Group facilitates green building, building science and LEED certification administration
consulting as well as provides organizational sustainability and corporate social responsibility consulting.

Additionally, the savvy smart home technology advisory, Haven Smart Home Solutions worked closely
with the development team recommending and implementing smart home ecosystems that would ensure
not just high-performance, resource efficient and certifiably healthy homes, but homes that actually
communicate with their inhabitants on a deeper level, intuitively learning their preferences, sharing data
amongst devices and connecting home processes in order to ensure the safety, comfort and health of its
people while delivering significant operating cost savings.

Wrapping everything up, the Mountain Life Companies depended upon the dedicated expertise of Deeper
Green Consulting from Dillon, Colorado to perform all of the important, third-party testing and
verification of these homes energy and sustainability features, validating the highest degreee of efficiency
through building science testing and certifying the building envelope's air sealing, insulation, ventilation,
mechanical testing and everything else that goes into an ultra-efficient home. “Without the important
work that Deeper Green provided, we could never have achieved the levels of efficiency and
sustainability that ultimately have earned us this Home of the Year Award,” said Garratt Hasenstab in
praising the work of Deeper Green.

Judges evaluated entries on comprehensive criteria including siting, the depth of building science
employed, materials sourcing and reuse and overall resilience. All winners are showcased in the January /
February 2019 edition of Green Builder Magazine.

The Epic Homes had an amazing industry reception winning the coveted Sustainability Award from the
Summit County Builders Association presented by High Country Conservation Center. These unique
homes go way beyond energy efficient - situated at almost 10,000 feet above sea-level, in climate zone 7
(same as Alaska), these homes have set a new bar for sustainability in the building industry with the help
and dedication of all of the aforementioned groups as well as other special people who helped make it all
happen on a daily basis.

Learn more about these award-winning, ultra-green and meta-efficiency homes here. These home are
sold-out. The sale prices of these homes ranged from $1.3 - $1.4 million.

About The Mountain Life Companies

The Mountain Life Companies is a multi-faceted investment, development and management firm
established in 2015 as the parent company of several real estate and technology related businesses and
complimentary brand acquisitions. The Mountain Life Companies manages its subsidiary business and
brand interests in the fields of real estate development, boutique property brokerage services, Proptech /
distributed ledger technologies, smart home technology, sustainability consulting, online media, real
estate photography, publishing and other specialized management consulting services.

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As of 2019, the Mountain Life Brands now include (in alphabetical order): FotoHauz, Haven SmartHome
Solutions, InHouse Media, Mountain Life Development Group, Mountain Life Real Estate, REsource
Blockchain and Verdigris Group among other incredible brands currently in development and incubation.

About Green Builder Magazine

Green Builder® Magazine is the building industry's leading magazine focused on green building and
sustainable development. Green Builder offers practical, cost-effective information to a community of the
most advanced building professionals across the country. The magazine's nationally award winning
editorial team blends top-quality visionary content with sophisticated design to generate an unforgettable
publication that addresses the most important issues of our time.

About Green Builder Media

Green Builder® Media, LLC is the leading media company in North America focused on green building
and sustainable living. With a comprehensive suite of print and digital media solutions, demonstration
projects, case studies, online training and live events, Green Builder Media assists building professionals
in preparing themselves for the new green economy and helps homeowners understand how to live more
sustainably.

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Contact Information:
The Mountain Life Companies
Garratt Hasenstab
1-800-805-2830 x11
Contact via Email
www.mountainlifecompanies.com

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