Builders, Developers, & Architects
Best Energy Rating can help with building code compliance and green/energy certification; whether your project is a remodel, spec home, large custom, sub-division, or mid-rise multi family project.
Best Energy Rating can help you navigate and explain all of your options to achieve code compliance. We offer full service options that allow us to collaborate with you and your team to find the most cost effective and best combination of products and quality installation methods to ensure great performance. We want to work with builders and contractors who are passionate about their craft and hold themselves and subcontractors to a higher standard.
Service Options:
- Energy Compliance Documentation
- 75% high efficiency lamps (CFL, LED...) installed
- Insulation and air sealing standards increased
- Fresh air ventilation required
- Window fenestration levels changed to 0.40 u-value & 0.25 SHGC (zone 2)
- Building and duct leakage testing required (some exemptions apply)
- Compliance Label required in service panel
Best Energy Rating can help you navigate and explain all of your options to achieve code compliance. We offer full service options that allow us to collaborate with you and your team to find the most cost effective and best combination of products and quality installation methods to ensure great performance. We want to work with builders and contractors who are passionate about their craft and hold themselves and subcontractors to a higher standard.
Service Options:
- Plan Review Consulting
- Energy Compliance Cert. delivery (REScheck or IECC compliance reports with projected HERS & Energy Star comparison for marketing)
- Progressive insulation and air sealing inspections
- Compliance checklists for insulation, air sealing, and ventilation
- Building and duct leakage testing
- Compliance label delivery
Planning:
- IECC/IRC Compliance energy modeling and compliance reports.
- HVAC heat loads with ACCA approved Manual JDS software as required by the IECC/IRC and many above code programs.
- Thermal envelope, mechanical efficiency, and energy VE consulting
- Upfront energy modeling to show eligibility for HERS rating, Energy Star, Net Zero, NGBS, and 45L tax credit approval using DOE approved software.
Energy Star
ENERGY STAR certified new homes are designed and built to standards well above most other homes on the market today, delivering energy efficiency savings of up to 30 percent when compared to typical new homes. A new home that has earned the ENERGY STAR label has undergone a process of inspections, testing, and verification to meet strict requirements set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), delivering better quality, better comfort, and better durability. Best Energy Rating is a proud partner of Energy Star.
DOE Zero Home Ready
Since 2008, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Builders Challenge program has recognized hundreds of leading builders for their achievements in energy efficiency—resulting in over 14,000 energy efficient homes and millions of dollars in energy savings. The DOE Zero Energy Ready Home—formerly DOE Challenge Home—represents a whole new level of home performance, with rigorous requirements that ensure outstanding levels of energy savings, comfort, health, and durability.
Energy Smart Builders & Homes
Energy Smart Builders are leading the transformation of the housing towards high energy performance homes. These leading builders are committed to having all of their homes energy rated following RESNET's stringent standards and marketing their homes' HERS Index.
The RESNET HERS Index is the industry standard by which a home's energy efficiency is measured. The Home Energy Rating System was designed by RESNET and is the nationally recognized system for the inspection and calculating a home's energy performance. Certified RESNET HERS raters have rated over 1 million homes since 1995.
For more information on the RESNET HERS Index click on HERS Index
Today's new homes are much more efficient in comparison to homes built just a decade ago. These homes are more affordable to maintain, comfortable to live in, and have a higher resale value. RESNET Energy Smart Builders are increasing the energy performance of the homes they build. This is good for consumers, the environment, the local economy, and our national security. The use of the HERS Index will differentiate homes built by RESNET Energy Smart Builders from other homes for sale in the market. Home builders from across the nation have already been designated as RESNET Energy Smart Builders. For a listing of RESNET Energy Smart Builders click on RESNET Energy Smart Builders
How to Become a RESNET Energy Smart Builder?
All a builder needs to do to be designated by RESNET as an Energy Smart Builder is to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding of RESNET to have all of their homes energy rated and market the homes' HERS Index. There is no cost to the builder to enter into the agreement.
Learn More
Draft RESNET - Builder Memorandum of Understanding
Consumer Brochure on the RESNET HERS Index
The RESNET HERS Index is the industry standard by which a home's energy efficiency is measured. The Home Energy Rating System was designed by RESNET and is the nationally recognized system for the inspection and calculating a home's energy performance. Certified RESNET HERS raters have rated over 1 million homes since 1995.
For more information on the RESNET HERS Index click on HERS Index
Today's new homes are much more efficient in comparison to homes built just a decade ago. These homes are more affordable to maintain, comfortable to live in, and have a higher resale value. RESNET Energy Smart Builders are increasing the energy performance of the homes they build. This is good for consumers, the environment, the local economy, and our national security. The use of the HERS Index will differentiate homes built by RESNET Energy Smart Builders from other homes for sale in the market. Home builders from across the nation have already been designated as RESNET Energy Smart Builders. For a listing of RESNET Energy Smart Builders click on RESNET Energy Smart Builders
How to Become a RESNET Energy Smart Builder?
All a builder needs to do to be designated by RESNET as an Energy Smart Builder is to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding of RESNET to have all of their homes energy rated and market the homes' HERS Index. There is no cost to the builder to enter into the agreement.
Learn More
Draft RESNET - Builder Memorandum of Understanding
Consumer Brochure on the RESNET HERS Index