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Energy Star Certification

Design Your Deltec to Earn Green Certification

Energy Star for Homes is a building certification program created by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Homes earning the Energy Star label have been designed to utilize the most efficient practices, and are rigorously tested to ensure they are at least 15% more energy efficient than homes built to recent energy codes—often they are 20%-30% more efficient.

The Energy Star label is achieved for a new home through a combination of strict insulation, air tightness, water management, and heating and cooling building practices. 


The Deltec Model Home in Mars Hill, NC
earned ENERGY STAR certification

Some of these practices are the very same air sealing and water management strategies automatically incorporated in the pre-assembled pieces of your Deltec home. 


Yet building a home to earn this label requires planning and cooperation across the many disciplines that will be involved in building your home.  That’s why Deltec has teamed up with a third party energy professional in a program called Designed to Earn the Energy Star, enabling you to complete the design aspects of Energy Star certification with Deltec.  You can then take your Designed to Earn plans to a local energy rater at your building site, who will complete the final field testing.
 

Benefits of Certification

  • Design your home according to strict criteria for energy efficiency…and verify that it meets those design goals through mandatory field testing
  • Certification ensures that energy efficient design strategies are carried out over the various construction disciplines involved
  • Build a home with lower operating costs compared to a conventional home
  • Increase the value of your home with a nationally-recogized certification

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We love our Deltec. It is a wonderful design and is VERY fuel efficient. It was green before green was cool. - Becky A., Greenville, SC

Due to the superior energy efficient design of the Deltec home, all the south facing glass and the active solar power equipment, the home is totally self sufficient.
 - John J., Telluride, CO

Our Deltec home has exceeded our expectations. It is comfortable inside and looks great outside. We are very happy with the energy efficiency and comfort of this design. - Marianne K., Harrisonburg, VA

Each time the gas company sends out a bill, they include a chart comparing our consumption with their average customer. Always, our consumption is just half of the average. - Ed B., Holcomb, NY

Our past electric bills ranged from $120 to 250. With our 4000 sq. ft. Deltec (around 3 times the size of our old house), our electric bill averages around $120, $130 per month. - Kim M., Magnolia, TX

We love our Deltec home. It is very energy efficient (we have not had a gas bill over $75 this year), spacious, easy to maintain, and incredibly "livable." - 
Daniel & Lynn W., Wildwood, PA

We have just gone through our first winter and I can't believe how tight this house is, and how it weathers the local winds which are occasionally pretty interesting. - Joseph R., Oakhurst, CA

Using regular windows, floor plan design & sub-tunnels we have such great natural lighting that we almost never need to turn on any lights in the house.
 - Beth H., Charleston, SC

Even on coldest days in Colorado, our house stays in the low 60s without using the furnace during the day. In the summer it never gets above 75 even if 15 degrees warmer outside. Love my house! - 
Suzanne M., Buena Vista, CO

Everyone else around us is crying about $500-$600 a month electrical bills and ours was $239.00 last month which is really low for Hawaii. - 
Keith B., Holualoa, HI

For our new home, we built to the basic Deltec standards…and our Deltec Home earned a HERS score of 34. Our home uses 66% less energy than code-built new homes. We’re very pleased with the energy efficiency. -Barbara P., Richford, VT- - Barbara P., Richford, VT