CHiP Home Program welcomes Essex Homes, SE and Sovereign Homes

We are pleased to announce that Essex Homes, SE and Sovereign Homes have both committed to certifying all of their new construction in the Certified High Performance (CHiP) Home Program. Both companies have already received certifications in multiple homes in December 2012, and will continue throughout 2013 and beyond. See the list of CHiP Homes here.

Both companies already have comprehensive green building programs in place (e-Built for Essex Homes, and hauSmart(TM) for Sovereign Homes), but both have added the third-party certification based on the National Green Building Standard(TM) to give their customers further confidence in their construction techniques.

"This extra step taken by Essex Homes and Sovereign Homes demonstrates how important green building is becoming in our market and in new home construction around the country," said 2013 Green Building Council Chairman Mark Bostic. "To see large companies such as these make the effort to have every house third-party certified shows the importance of certification and a shift in the homebuilding paradigm."

Other companies that have certified new homes in the program are GreenSense Homes, Hallmark Homes International/Inspired Communities, and Paradime Construction, Inc. The CHiP Home Program is a program of the Green Building Council of Greater Columbia and is based on the National Green Building Standard(TM), an ANSI approved building standard. The program is designed for small, medium, and large-scale builders to achieve third-party certification of high-performance home construction in the most streamlined and cost-effective way possible. Click here for more information on the CHiP Home Program.