|
 If you are a
builder or a home owner, and if your building a new home, you have
over 10,000 decisions to make.
Headwaters Energy certainly can not
help you with all of these items. However, if it is related to
Building Code compliance energy usage or green construction
programs, we will provide you options with answers. Our services
include:
Building Department Compliance
Home Energy Rating Services (HERS)
Energy Star
verification services
Built Green
Colorado
LEED-H
By August 1st.
2008, all building departments in the State of Colorado are required
to adopt at a minimum the 2003 International Energy Conservation
Code (IECC). Headwaters will determine what energy code is required
for your new home. We will provide a "Base Bid" service that will
enable your home to breeze through any building department in the
State. Click here
to learn more
about energy codes.
Go to top
This "HERS"
service is an integral required part of any of the getting the
Energy Star,
Built Green, or
LEED for homes certification.
The client will receive:
-
an energy
rating certificate
-
emission report
-
actions report
-
air leakage
report
-
component load summary report
-
$2,000 builder tax credit report
certificate
Tax credit compliance is not
guaranteed. This service requires two (2) site visits to the
property. Pre-drywall insulation inspection. Also included is
Blower door infiltration testing near time of certificate of
occupancy.
Click here, to find out more
about Builder Tax Credit Compliance and home energy ratings.
Go to top
If you the type
of home owner or builder that is looking to go beyond the "minimum"
local building code, Energy Star is a great option. Energy Star is
a program developed through the EPA program. The benefits to
homeowners and builders is impressive. Energy Star homes focus on
these primary items with a home.
In summary,
Energy Star homes have low operational cost, and very good indoor
air quality.
Headwaters Energy
Provides Third Party Verification services.
Go to top
 Built Green is a
voluntary program. Its purpose is to encourage homebuilders,
multi-family builders, architects and developers to use
technologies, products and practices that will:
-
Provide greater energy efficiency and reduce pollution
-
Provide healthier indoor air
-
Reduce water usage
-
Preserve natural resources
-
Improve durability and reduce maintenance
Every home,
multi-family building and community registered with the program must
meet the specific program’s criteria. These criteria, contained in
the multiple Built Green Checklists, include a menu of options
addressing a range of items from which the builder must select to
reach a minimum point total. Because of the range and number of
options available under the checklists every homebuilder,
multi-family builder and developer may build “green” a little
differently. Only those homes units or communities registered with
the program may receive the Built Green designation.
Click
here
to find out more about Built Green Colorado
Go to top
LEED-H (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for homes) is a
national program administered through the
U.S.
Green Building Council.
LEED-H
encourages and accelerates global adoption of
sustainable green building and development practices through the
creation and implementation of universally understood and accepted
tools and performance criteria.
Go to top
|
