Deltec Homes is an American home construction company located in Asheville, North Carolina."Square is so Square: Somerville Man Goes for Round House Instead" Memphis Daily News. Retrieved 2014-01-09."The inside scoop on 'net zero energy' homes" Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2014-01-09. The company builds round-shaped houses throughout the US, the Caribbean, and other locations internationally."Round houses found to be easy to build, maintain" Herald-Dispatch. Retrieved 2014-01-09. Deltec Homes has received multiple sustainability awards through the U.S. Department of Energy's Zero Energy Ready Home program and has been featured in national and international media coverage discussing their hurricane-resistant design, energy efficiency, and residential architecture.
History
Deltec Homes was founded by Clyde Kinser in 1955 as Kinser Home Insulation of Asheville."Deltec Homes Endowed Scholarship" AB Tech. Retrieved 2014-1-9. Kinser sold insulation door to door, listening to his customers' needs, and then sending a crew out the next day to install the insulation. He soon realized his customers wanted to conserve energy in many ways, so he broadened the company’s energy efficient products to aluminum doors and windows, and later vinyl products, and changed the name of the company to Kinco Corporation.
Kinser and his sons purchased designs from another Asheville company called Rondesics who made a round structure, then made substantial improvements to create the compression ring and tension collar roof system. This company, called Delta Technologies, served one customer initially but as the popularity of these resort homes increased, other resort companies purchased Deltec homes and the commercial building applications grew.
In the mid-1980s the business shifted from commercial applications to residential homes and became Deltec Homes. As of 2014, more than 85% of the company's homes are primary family residences. Deltec Homes operated as a subsidiary of Kinco until Kinco was sold in 1994. At that time Deltec was spun out as a separate company.
Deltec Homes is a privately held company. Robert Kinser was chairman of the board, but died on December 13, 2017. In 2014, the company built its 5000th home."Deltec builds 5,000th home since company started in 1968" Mountain Xpress. Retrieved 2014-1-9.
Products
Deltec Homes produces resilient, high-performance homes. They include both the 360-degree collection of round homes and the Renew collection, including the Ridgeline and Solar Farmhouse models. They are best known for their round-shaped homes"A new house goes up, and up and up, in time for storm season" Times-Picayune. Retrieved 2014-01-09."House of the Week: A Home in the Round" Syracuse.com. Retrieved 2014-01-09. that are more hurricane resistant than a traditionally shaped house while being more energy efficient naturally."Round houses fare best against hurricanes" News-Press. Retrieved 2014-01-09."Living Outside the Box" Cleveland Magazine. Retrieved 2014-01-09."Round Homes Catching On, But Are They Green?" Treehugger. Retrieved 2014-01-09. After working with Appalachian State University's Solar Decathlon award winners,"Deltec Homes Offers Solar Decathlon Model" Residential Building. Retrieved 2014-1-9. the company broadened their homes lines, introducing the Renew collection of homes. The solar farmhouse has since been introduced, specifically designed to be net-zero energy efficient."How Asheville cornered the market on round houses" Citizen-Times. Retrieved 2014-1-9. The Deltec factory is completely powered by renewable energy. Jetson Green. Retrieved 2014-1-9.
Awards and recognition
2019 Department of Energy Zero Energy Ready Housing Innovation Award winner “DOE 2019 Zero Energy Ready Housing Innovation Winner” “Department of Energy” Retrieved 2022-3-7. 2021 Department of Energy Zero Energy Ready Housing Innovation Award grand winner“DOE 2021 Zero Energy Ready Housing Innovation Winner”“Department of Energy” Retrieved 2022-3-7. 2023 Department of Energy Zero Energy Ready Housing Innovation Award winner2023 Zero Energy Ready Housing Innovation Winner” “Department of Energy” Retrieved 2022-3-7.
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