2025 Climate Week Events

Billings Climate Coalition was excited to include a tour of the famed Hafer sustainable home, built by High Plains Architects, in Billings!

The Urban Frontier House is a revolutionary house built on a former greyfield site in Billings, MT. It is revolutionary because this house has no mechanical heating or cooling system, no gas utility, no city water or sewer service, nor well or septic system, and while grid tied, produces more energy in a year than it consumes.

The structure is located on a small urban infill lot seven blocks from the center of downtown. High Plains Architects had a vision to create a comfortable, affordable, and low maintenance house that is entirely self-sustaining. Pushing these goals further, all of the systems in the house are designed to be scalable and replicable in order to make the house a prototype for a healthy more sustainable cost-effective standard of residential construction.