Build an Energy Efficient New Home
Are you planning to build a new home? Our team of highly trained Certified Energy Advisors can offer you professional, un-biased advice to help you build an energy efficient house of your dreams!
A home built to a building code is not the most energy efficient home you can build. Incorporating upgrades such as higher insulation levels and more efficient space heating systems, doors, windows and water heating systems can dramatically reduce your energy consumption, make your home more comfortable, and reduce your carbon footprint.
Furthermore, government rebates make it more cost effective than ever to build an energy efficient home!
The process is simple:
1. You start by contacting Sustainable Housing to register for the service. Click here for information on how to register. Your Energy Advisor will discuss the project with you and request a set of your building plans.
2. After receiving your plans, your Energy Advisor will model your home using sophisticated software to determine what the EnerGuide Rating would be if it were to be built according to your initial plans. The EnerGuide Rating is a measure of the energy efficiency of the home. Learn more
3. We will then contact you again to discuss various options for upgrading your plans, how those upgrades would impact the EnerGuide Rating of your new home, the resulting reduction in energy consumption, and available government rebates to assist you with those upgrades. This is a critical stage in the process. We will work closely with you to arrive at the right combination of upgrades to optimize energy savings and rebates, and to maximize the return on your investment.
4. Once construction is complete, we will visit the home 
to ensure it is built according to the revised plans, and to perform an air leakage test. This test determines the air tightness of the house, which is factored into the overall EnerGuide Rating for your home.
5. Your Sustainable Housing Energy Advisor will submit applications on your behalf for any eligible government rebates.
You will also receive an official Natural Resources Canada EnerGuide label confirming the EnerGuide Rating of your home. This label confirms that the house was evaluated by a licensed advisor according to Natural Resources guidelines, and may be an important selling feature should you decide to sell your home in the future.
Get started today!
Click here for information on how to register your building plans.
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Sustainable housing is located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia and Oromocto, New Brunswick.
We provide energy evaluations and offer energy conservation consulting services in
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland.
