Verification Services
Green building certifications authenticate, with independent third-party verifiers, that a home or building has met established performance threshold. This provides owners and occupants with the assurance that a building is healthy, durable and promotes efficient use of water, energy and resources.
How Conway Energy Can Help:
Conway Energy has helped thousands of Northern Virginia owners, builders and architects to navigate the building certification process for each of the following nationally and regionally recognized green building programs listed below. In addition, we provide on-site technical assistance, including blower door tests, and the physical inspections and verifications needed to achieve a green building certification.
Green Building Certifications
EarthCraft Virginia is a non-profit green building organization that provides a certification process for single family and multi-family projects. It serves as a blueprint for healthy, comfortable homes that reduces utility bills and protects the environment. EarthCraft House Virginia is your best assurance for a quality home.
EarthCraft Virginia promotes diligent air-sealing and energy efficiency. Air-sealing of the building envelope and its mechanical systems, while still allowing for fresh air intake, provides a tighter building envelope at little additional cost. There is less communication of air and sound between units and better indoor air quality through the use of managed fresh-air intakes. Thus, projects are energy efficient, less costly to occupy, and more durable overall. Resource efficient materials such as concrete with fly ash, cellulose insulation, and carpet pad and carpet containing recycled materials defer wastes from landfills. With window and insulation levels that exceed code, water conservation measures, and the use of Energy Star appliances, utility bills remain low after move in.
Through the National Green Building Program, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is helping move the practice of green building into the mainstream. Energy efficiency, water and resource conservation, sustainable or recycled products, and indoor air quality are increasingly incorporated into the everyday process of home building.
LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.
LEED for Homes is a rating system that promotes the design and construction of high-performance green homes. Green homes use less energy, water and natural resources, create less waste, and are more durable and comfortable for occupants.
Arlington Green Home Choice Program
Arlington has developed the Green Home Choice program to provide a structure and support system within which builders and homeowners can build green. The Arlington Green Home Choice program is based on the EarthCraft Virginia program. The program provides a listing of building techniques energy efficient, less costly to occupy, and more durable overall. Resource efficient materials such as concrete with fly ash, cellulose insulation, and carpet pad and carpet containing recycled materials defer wastes from landfills. With window and insulation levels that exceed code, water conservation measures, and the use of Energy Star appliances, utility bills remain low after move in.
