Bensonwood Homes is known for its artful timber frame homes. It is also, a builder of innovative, hybrid and non-timbered panelized homes as well. Through its fabrication of highly insulated and finished panelized assemblies, and its proprietary Open-Built® strategies that make the home flexible and adaptable to the owners' needs over time, Bensonwood has become acknowledged as the premier designer/builder of energy efficient, high performance homes across the US and Canada. Among these are a LEED Platinum, Net-Zero residence in Maine that creates as much energy as it consumes, and a Passive House in Vermont that requires no furnace. Bensonwood also built the zero energy Bosarge Family Education Center at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay.