Home Innovation Research Labs recently began to share data on its NGBS Green Certified homes with Pivotal Energy Solutions’ Axis energy efficiency data collection and sharing platform.
Nearly 90,000 U.S. homes have met the requirements of the ICC 700 National Green Building Standard (NGBS). The NGBS Green stringent third-party verified certification process ensures that homes and apartments are built in compliance with the NGBS and focuses on three highly marketable attributes: healthy homes; lower operating costs; and sustainable lifestyle.
NGBS Green homes must achieve high performance metrics in several key areas, including site design, resource efficiency, water efficiency, energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality, and building operation/maintenance. An NGBS Green Certified home can earn a Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Emerald certification, depending on the number of green practices successfully incorporated in its design and construction. NGBS Green is the only national green home certification program that requires increasingly higher point thresholds in every category, not merely an increase in the home’s overall points.
Pivotal’s Axis platform is a cloud-based energy rating data and workflow management solution used by HERS raters and providers, home builders, and energy efficiency program sponsors to streamline collection and sharing of energy ratings and program certifications. The consolidation of Axis data and Home Innovation’s data furthers Pivotal’s commitment toward proper valuation of energy-efficient homes by establishing Axis as a trusted data hub that facilitates data sharing within the energy efficiency industry and with real estate market data systems.
“We believe this partnership is well-timed to remedy two of today’s most intractable market barriers when it comes to green homes: ensuring green certified homes receive the right valuation, and helping home buyers and renters find them easily,” says Michael Luzier, president and CEO of Home Innovation.
