GO Custom Homes
About
A Custom GO Logic home is designed around your land, your priorities, and how you want to live. Design is either led by GO Logic, or an architect partner (with our team ensuring that the build and performance details achieve the highest levels of comfort, air quality, health and durability). You then select the Build Path that best fits your project. Either GO Logic delivers a high-performance shell for your local team. Or GO Logic manages the full build (available only in our local Maine region). The result is a home that feels quiet and comfortable in every season, with materials and details selected for long-term health, resilience, and predictably low operating costs, guided by The GO Standard.
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Whether GO Logic designs your home in-house or you're working with an outside architect, we can deliver the same high-performance enclosure that meets the same GO Standard. The difference is who carries the project through all of the final details and finishes. In Shell Only, we deliver the enclosure and coordinate with the local team as needed, then your GC completes the home. In Full Build, GO Logic serves as the general contractor and manages the entire process from early planning through move-in (available for projects in our local Maine region).
Two Ways to Build a GO Logic Custom Home
Full Build
Shell Only
Full Build
Full Build is for homeowners who want GO Logic to lead the project from early planning through move-in. We coordinate design (in-house or alongside your architect), engineering, permitting support, panel fabrication, and full general contracting so the custom details stay aligned from the first drawings through the final touches and move-in. This path is available when your project is within our full-build area, or when the scope and logistics allow GO Logic to take on the full GC responsibility.
Steps:
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A $5,000 get-started fee will confirm scope, timeline, budget range, and site realities to ensure we design the right solution from the beginning. Here you incorporate a garage, screen porch, or other outbuildings as desired. Then finalize design scope and execute a design contract (with get-started fee credited toward the design fee).
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With a pre-designed model we only need to focus on modifications to the base plans. If there are none, we move quickly to finalize finish selections. Customization will slow the process somewhat and may require additional engineering and design fees.
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Finalizes scope, pricing, schedule, executes a construction contract, and secures a building permit. Now ready to build!
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GO Logic coordinates site work, utility infrastructure, and the building of the foundation.
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We construct the panelized enclosure in our facility and assemble it on the completed foundation, executing key air and water control details precisely.
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Install roofing, exterior siding, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, insulation in cavities, drywall, doors, cabinetry and all other finishes.
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Commission systems and walk through the home to ensure comfort and performance meet expectations.
Shell Only
Shell Only is for homeowners, architects or developers who want GO Logic's enclosure and detailing while working with their own GC or taking on parts of the project themselves. That may be by choice, because you already have a trusted local building team. Or it may be because your project is outside our full-build area. We design and deliver the panelized air-tight and water-tight shell that ensures comfort, performance and durability. Then your team completes the build, systems and finishes. We stay involved throughout the build with clear documentation, defined responsibilities, and passive house or other certifications (if desired).
Steps
The steps in a shell-only process are very similar to full build process. We work with you (or you work with your architect) to design and configure the home, site, and additional buildings. Once the design is finalized, GO Logic estimates the shell scope while the GC estimates the remainder of the project work. When you are ready to move forward you execute two construction contracts, one with GO Logic for the shell and one with the GC for the remainder of the build. At that point we order windows and the GC creates a schedule for site work and foundation.
When panels are completed in our shop and the foundation is in, we deliver and assemble the building panels. Very little coordination is needed with the GC through this phase. After the shell is installed, we hand the site back to the GC to complete roofing, siding, rough-in, and finishes. Then our work is done.
Our design team remains involved with the project until the GC scope is completed in order to answer questions, provide additional documentation, and ensure the project meets the intent of the drawings and your expectations.
Developers
GO Logic brings architecture, performance, budget, and speed into the same conversation.
Early design input
Better cost clarity up front
A repeatable system for schedule planning
Performance, cost, and schedule get discussed in the same early conversation instead of three separate ones, with your architect, engineers, and GC in the room from the start. That's what makes planning against a repeatable shell system so much easier than sorting through site decisions after the fact. A faster dry-in cuts down on weather and moisture exposure once you're on site, and the same assemblies, R-values, materials, and windows that flex for a single home scale just as predictably across a multifamily project.
Between our two shops, we can take on incremental work today, and there's real room to scale for the right project. The best next step is a conversation about your specific timeline and volume.
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Schools, dormitories, dining halls, and other buildings where high performance is quickly becoming the expected standard.
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Comfortable up to 8 to 12 units per building, with larger projects absolutely possible once we talk through phasing and logistics together.
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Cabin and hospitality concepts, best suited to clients who value a high-performance envelope over the lowest possible bid.
How We Build:
The GO Standard
A GO Logic home feels different from the moment you step inside. It's quiet. It's connected to nature, yet the temperature doesn't fluctuate from room to room. The air is always clean and fresh. The materials surrounding you exude health and well-being. And in any weather, it's remarkably comfortable and reassuring. You get the feeling that it's designed to take care of you.
That feeling comes from our commitment to The GO Standard. We design and build with a keen focus on comfort, health, resilience, and long-term peace of mind. Our homes are bright and airy. They eliminate virtually all drafts, stale, unhealthy air, and damaging moisture. In the end, the top quality materials and process, combined with very low maintenance, gives you more time to live your life. Not work on your house.
Behind that ease is a panelized shell rooted in Passive Building principles and built for airtightness, superior insulation, and continuous fresh-air ventilation.
The GO Standard also guides our designs. Light-filled rooms, precise detailing, thoughtful siting, generous glazing where it matters, and durable, low-emission materials work together to create a home that feels calm, modern, healthy, and deeply connected to place.
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"Custom doesn't have to mean reinventing everything. When the fundamentals are right, you gain more freedom to change the aspects that truly impact your lifestyle."
— Alan Gibson, Principal | GO Logic