Services Provided by Healthier Dwelling for Contractors

Enable your company to profit from the growth in Green and Sustainable Building.

With the Construction Industry hurting so, how is a Contractor to survive? There is one sector of residential and commercial construction and remodeling that is doing fine and expanding. Healthier Dwelling can help your company profit from the growth in Green and Sustainable Building. Home buyers want healthy, quality, energy efficient homes, even if they are smaller. For more information, see the article: Third Party Certified Green Homes Results in Faster Sales and Higher Home Values. Learn how you can use the services of Healthier Dwelling to save your clients money and make their homes healthier places to live. The potential to do green retrofits on existing homes is even greater than in new construction.

Review your design and suggest ways to economize on materials and equipment while improving the health, durability, and efficiency of the building.

Green Designs create more value in a building, and they don't necessarily cost more. As a Certified Energy Plans Examiner, Healthier Dwelling can review your design and suggest ways to economize on materials and equipment while improving the health, durability, and efficiency of the building. The new Title 24 takes effect July 1, 2009 raising the bar by 15%. You can no longer use double pane, low-E windows for energy credits, as they have become the default standard. It is necessary to plan more carefully and economize, particularly in sizing mechanical systems. In the past, HVAC systems have often been oversized, leading to poor performance and unnecessary expense.

Help you understand how the new regulations can allow you to take advantage of the emerging market for sustainable building and collect the incentives, rebates and tax credits offered by federal, state and local governments and by utility companies.

State and local Codes and Regulations are changing at a confusing rate, but Healthier Dwelling can help you be one of the contractors who is riding high on this Green Wave of change.  Understanding the fundamentals of the new regulations can allow you to take advantage of the emerging market for sustainable building and collect the incentives, rebates and tax credits offered by federal, state and local governments and by utility companies. In satisfying new Green Building Ordinances, you may also qualify for lower permit fees and expedited plan check.

Reduce your clients out-of-pocket expense and maximize their return-on-investment

Your clients are very cost conscious and don't want to spend money unnecessarily. The cost of energy now and in the future is so big and growing so rapidly that the prudent contractor will design and build to reduce the amount of energy consumed and the uncertainty of how much it will cost. Healthier Dwelling can help you and your clients reduce their out-of-pocket expense and maximize their return-on-investment. REDUCE the amount of energy your building needs, then PRODUCE on-site renewable energy from the sun, wind and water.

Qualify for an Energy Efficient Mortgage

Now is the time to buy homes at a good price, add value by doing energy efficient improvements, and either rent or resell at a profit. See our case study of a realtor in Santa Cruz who, with the help of Healthier Dwelling, recently qualified for an Energy Efficient Mortgage turning a "fixer upper" into an attractive, efficient home.

Establish your company as a leader in Green Building by taking the lead and doing a Passive House retrofit.

For detailed information about this exciting new development, read the article: First U.S. Retrofit to Passive House Standards.in Home Energy magazine.