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With energy prices skyrocketing and the temperature continuing to spike, most homeowners dread receiving their energy bill in the height of summer. But what most homeowners don’t realize is that they could own a high performance home that requires much less energy.
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Simple green home building strategies and technologies—like siting your home to take advantage of natural shading and daylight—can dramatically reduce power needs. High performance or green homes also offer improved comfort, a healthier indoor atmosphere, improved durability, and environmentally responsible use of materials.
Energy performance of a LEED certified home is at least 15-20 percent better than a comparable home built to code. The average pilot LEED Home offers utility savings of 40% percent.
LEED for Homes, the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) rating system for high performance or green homes emphasizes the energy performance of a home achieved through the home’s envelope, the heating/cooling systems, and any renewable energy systems. To certify a home under the LEED system, homes must meet or exceed the ENERGY STAR for Homes criteria as a prerequisite, which means that the energy performance of a LEED certified home is at least 15-20 percent better than a comparable home built to code. The average pilot LEED Home offers utility savings of 40% percent. Thus, a LEED home is certified to include this level of energy performance, plus many other benefits among the other resource categories of materials, sites, water, and indoor air quality.
All LEED Homes are third-party inspected, performance tested, and certified to be higher-performing than conventional homes. New home buyers can simply look for and purchase homes that are LEED certified. The third party LEED rating will assure them that the home uses energy, water and other resources wisely. LEED serves as a way to verify that home buyers get exactly what they expect and that their new homes live up to their green billing. LEED certified homes will likely sell more quickly and have higher resale values. For more information about LEED for Homes, visit www.usgbc.org .
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