Des Moines Area Green Home Builder
Good for your family and the environment
What is Green Building?
In addition to being good for the environment, green building benefits you by providing energy savings, better durability, water savings and improved indoor air quality.
Green building, or sustainable building, is the process of increasing the efficiency with which homes use water, energy, and materials in order to reduce the impacts on human health and environment while saving money and providing you with a more durable, comfortable home.
We are a Certified GREEN Professional and all of our homes are 5-Star Energy Certified and built to NAHB Green standards.



Benefits of Green Home Building

Energy Efficiency
Some steps we take to ensure efficiency include:

Durability & Materials

Water Savings

Healthier Indoor Air & Comfort
All homes we build are third-party verified to meet 5-Star Energy & NAHB green building standards
To ensure that all features and systems of our homes are built and function as intended Heartland Energy Solutions is used as a third-party inspector to inspect insulation, ductwork, heating, and cooling systems and perform a blower door test to meet all 5-Star Energy requirements and meet NAHB Green Building standards.
The following steps are taken to verify the energy performance of our homes:
- Testing & commissioning of HVAC systems
- Insulation inspection
- Blower door testing for house tightness (building envelope and leakage)
- Home energy ratings
- Test all components of the home
- Adjust all systems to maximize efficiency
- Provide maintenance training and manuals for our homeowners
- 2012 IECC Code Complaint
Frequently Asked Questions
Green building, also known as sustainable building, is the practice of increasing the efficiency with which homes and their sites use and harvest energy, water, and materials; and protecting and restoring human health and the environment, throughout the building life-cycle: siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation and deconstruction.

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