Successful Home Performance Pros

Improving Arizonia Home Performance with ENERGY STAR

Since launching in 2010, Arizonia Home Performance with ENERGY STAR has focused on continuous improvement. Arizonia Home Performance with ENERGY STAR successfully demonstrated that more customers can be served, while decreasing the cost of program management by improving two key areas:

  • Contractor satisfaction & support – Participating contractors are required to submit paperwork demonstrating that they successfully completed a home upgrade. To make this task easier on contractors, APS and FSL allowed contractors to choose the energy assessment software that worked best for their businesses.  To create a seamless data collection and transfer process from individual contractors and their various software to the program’s IT platform, the program leveraged industry standards BPI-2200 and 2100 - the home performance extensible mark-up language (HPXML) data dictionary and data transfer standards.
  • Quality of energy upgrades – To reduce variability in contractor work quality, APS and FSL turned to the Standard Work Specifications, developed by DOE’s Weatherization Assistance Program and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.  These specifications define the minimum acceptable outcomes for any weatherization or home performance task to be effective, durable, and safe.  Building on these standards, the program streamlined technical field guidance on individual upgrade improvements for contractors and for the program’s quality assurance process.

Read this case study for more on how the Arizona Home Performance with ENERGY STAR program’s lowered administrative labor costs for quality assurance by 50% while increasing contractor satisfaction with the program by 50%.

2016 Home Performance with ENERGY STAR Contractor of the Year Award Winners

This award, originally called the Housing Innovation Award and presented at industry conferences, recognizes Home Performance with ENERGY STAR participating contractors for their contributions to the industry and their leadership in the field. The award moved so that winning contractors can take advantage of the reputation and prestige of the ENERGY STAR Awards. Six contractors were awarded for excelling in criteria of Customer Relations, High Energy Savings, Industry Leadership, and Sales & Marketing.

Allied Construction Team

Business design and operational efficiencies drive Allied Construction to outstanding production

In just four short years, Allied Construction successfully completed more than 4,000 comprehensive Home Performance with ENERGY STAR projects in New Jersey and Delaware. To meet this demand, Allied Construction developed a standard package to offer homeowners interested in HPwES. Read more.

AZ Energy Efficient Home team

AZ Energy Efficient Home is using partnerships to expand the industry

AZ Energy Efficient Home believes that every family’s home should be safe, healthy, comfortable, and efficient. Its goal is to accomplish this in every home it touches, by reducing the energy burden, and therefore the carbon footprint of every family it does business with. Read more.

Energy Services Group

Energy Services Group is succeeding with a new approach to closing sales

Energy Services Group (ESG) specializes in assessing new and existing homes for cost-effective ways to increase energy efficiency and improved comfort throughout existing homes. ESG partners with utility companies and local energy programs to ensure that our customers receive all applicable rebates offered in their area. Read more.

greeNEWit

greeNEWit is focusing on the future by fostering partnerships for long-term success

greeNEWit has an expansive perspective on how end-energy consumers understand, interact, and engage with their energy profile. As a Home Performance with ENERGY STAR participating contractor greeNEWit helps improve home comfort, energy efficiency, and safety while lowering residential energy bills. Read more.

greensavers

Grassroots efforts to spread the word about home performance fuel success for GreenSavers

Founded in 2007, GreenSavers is the largest contractor by project volume that focuses exclusively on home performance in Oregon. For every customer, its team takes a whole-house approach, running diagnostics and delivering solutions that are central to Home Performance with ENERGY STAR. Read more.

Home Energy Matters

Unique approaches to marketing and customer relations make Home Energy Matters an outstanding contracting company

Dedicated to Home Performance with ENERGY STAR, Home Energy Matters was established in 2009. It is a participating contractor with Sponsor New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. After building 26 homes or large additions the founders realized that construction techniques were creating draft and comfort issues along with unnecessarily high fuel bills. Read more.

Past award winners