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Green Builders Helps Homeowners Save Hundreds on Energy Bills
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Green Builders, Inc.
(Amex: GBH), a leading large-scale developer of sustainable homes in the
Austin, Texas-area, is expanding its services to include green remodeling.
The new venture will initially cater to existing homeowners inCentral Texas
who want to reduce home energy demands and utility bills, lessen home
maintenance costs and increase the comfort of their home.
Heating and cooling account for more than fifty percent of the average
home's energy consumption. Having already refined the building science of
creating green systems in new home construction, it seemed a natural fit for
Green Builders to expand into the existing home arena and address the market
need for integrated green retrofit solutions. Green Builders' remodeling
program puts a strong emphasis on making homes as energy-efficient as
possible, which increases the value of the home and reduces energy consumption
and costs at the same time.
"Each day that energy prices and consumption continue to rise, your
current home is becoming more expensive to operate and maintain," says Clark
Wilson, President and CEO of Green Builders, Inc. "People come out to our
communities all the time and ask us what they can do to make their home more
energy efficient. We've always given them the low-hanging fruit like changing
out incandescent bulbs with CFLs and switching to low flow plumbing fixtures.
Now we are able to offer them a long term energy savings solution for their
existing home that will pay for itself in the short term."
The company's scientific approach to remodeling starts with an in-home
energy audit that evaluates the home's energy usage and performance. Green
Builders then analyzes the data to identify a customized energy- and
cost-savings action plan that will have the most impact on the home's energy
expenditure and yield the greatest energy savings for the cost.
"Homes account for 14 percent of the energy used inTexas each year. Most
of that energy is electricity. And Texans are paying the price -- 56 percent
more each year for electricity than the national residential average," reports
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Susan Combs, who recently released the
results of a state-wide home energy efficiency report. "With a burgeoning
population and a 66 percent home ownership rate, even small gains in home
energy efficiency will create a sizeable impact inTexas."
There are numerous financial incentives and tax credits available to
homeowners to help subsidize the costs of an energy-efficiency remodel. In
fact, engineering shows that in some cases Green Builders can design a "green
retrofit" solution that will save the homeowner more money in monthly utility
costs than they will have to pay out on their monthly home improvement loan
payment.
Green Builders currently builds sustainable homes and communities
throughout theAustin area, priced from the $180s to $600s. To learn more
about the company's new green remodeling initiative, visit
http://www.greenbuildersinc.com.
About Green Builders, Inc.
Green Builders, Inc. combines the equal necessities of progress and
preservation by building homes that tread lightly on the earth. Our success is
measured by continued sales in a growing number of sustainable communities,
which we believe to be vital to a sustainable planet. With respect for the
world's resources and for the needs of our clients, we create healthy,
beautiful, long-lasting homes that people, and the earth, can afford. To
learn more visit, http://www.greenbuildersinc.com.
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SOURCE Green Builders, Inc.
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