TopBuild Home Services’ Exclusive Environments For Living® Program

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About Environments For Living® Program

The Environments for Living (EFL) Comfort Guarantee is a proprietary program offered exclusively by TopBuild Homes Services. Meeting required standards of the EFL program provides a high level of confidence in the quality, durability and comfort of the home. The EFL program helps builders attract energy and cost-conscious home buyers with guaranteed home energy cost projections for their prospective homes.

Customize Your Environments For Living® Certification

The TopBuild Home Services Environments for Living program offers tiered program certifications to fit your goals and needs. The Gold, Platinum, Green Certified and Diamond service level packages each offer a variation of the core elements of the EFL guarantee. Our customizable EFL program is designed to work with your specific building needs and budget.

Energy and Comfort Guarantees

The EFL program offers Energy and Comfort Guarantees that enable you and your homeowners a high level of confidence in the quality, durability and comfort of the home as well as the long-term energy and cost efficiency. Builders can attract energy and cost-conscious buyers with guaranteed home energy cost projections for the full lifecycle of their home.

Inspection by a TopBuild Home Services Expert

TopBuild Home Services offers inspection and testing to provide confidence that builders meet the required standards of the EFL program. This gives both the builders and homeowners a piece of mind that the home has met the criteria of the program while ensuring that the projected energy use guarantees are accurate.

Modeling, Testing, and Inspection

Environments for Living® Certified Green Experts have the experience to guide you through the process, making a seamless transition from your current building practices to an above code and more sustainably built home. Throughout the entire process, our Environments for Living® Certified Green Experts will help guide you through the implementation and completion of your Environments for Living Certified Green home.

Performance-Based Green Building and Training Support

Unlike other checklist-style programs, the Environments for Living® Certified Green program requirements are performance based. Our modeling, inspection, and testing process produces real world results with tangible cost and energy benefits. Plus, TBHS experts can help train your sales, construction, and trade partners in how to achieve and market the benefits of an Environments for Living Certified Green home.

Appeal to Homebuyers Looking for Sustainable Living

Stand out as a best-in-class sustainable builder with the Environments for Living® Certified Green program. With EFL Certified Green homes, your communities will appeal to home buyers looking for properties built to provide water and energy efficiency while delivering improved indoor air quality. Buyers benefit from cost-effective, efficient energy usage throughout the lifecycle of their home.

We Offer Targeted Environments For Living® Solutions

Construct Confidently with Leaders in Efficient Building Science

Environments for Living programs use advanced building science and building elements to promote better energy efficiency, indoor air quality, occupant comfort, and more durable and sustainable homes. Also, as an ‘above code’ program, EFL can help separate your homes from the competition by offering a more energy-efficient and quality home.

Offer Clients a Home Comfort Guarantee

The EFL Home Comfort Guarantee enables builders to have confidence knowing their clients will experience peak comfort in their home. Our comfort guarantee promises that the temperature at the location of the thermostat will not vary any more than three degrees in any conditioned room from the center of the room’s thermostat zone.

Guarantee Energy Savings with The Environments for Living® Program

Our EFL program offers the guarantee for efficient heating and cooling energy use of the home, which is often the costliest component to energy consumption. Our guarantee helps entice your target buyers by offering many benefits, including reduced energy consumption and cost of ownership stability.

Industry-Leading Green Building Certification Program

The Environments for Living® Certified Green program, unlike other green building programs, is based on performance, not a predetermined checklist. That means builders have more flexibility in execution while maintaining focus on key performance indicators in water efficiency, indoor air quality, and energy use.

Passing Green Building Benefits on to Future Homeowners

The Environments for Living® Certified Green program is a great solution for a builder who would like to build more efficient homes to attract buyers interested in a sustainable home. The program is tailored to builders looking for a real-world, cost-effective solution for green building in the modern environment.

Gain Access to Our Nationwide Building Science Network

From coast to coast, our robust network of energy-efficient building experts deliver prompt service. We compliment your building schedule instead of being a bottleneck.

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Who We Serve

Single-Family Residential Builders

Helping you test and certify single-family homes for maximum energy efficiency

Multi-Family Residential Builders

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More Questions?

Is The Environments For Living® Program available in any state or for any new construction?

Environments for Living® is a national program available to builders in many locations across the U.S. TopBuild Home Services works in most climate zones and in all building and code environments to help builders to achieve their goals. Contact a TBHS expert in your market to confirm what Environments for Living® options are available.

Who stands behind the Environments For Living® comfort and energy guarantees?

The Environments for Living® program and Comfort Guarantee are an exclusive service offering of TopBuild Home Services, a division of TopBuild Corp. TopBuild is a leading insulation and building material products provider that serves the construction industry in the United States and Canada. To learn more about TopBuild please visit our website.

How do I find out more information regarding the Environments For Living® Program?

Let a TBHS expert tailor an Environments for Living® package for your new construction project and answer your project questions. Our experts are on-hand to assist you: contact us today!

My Home is Environments For Living® Certified and I need to process a claim. Who do I contact?

You should contact your builder right away. If you have done this and are not satisfied, TopBuild Home Services, through the Environments For Living® Program, will notify and reasonably coordinate with your builder to make any changes or modifications, as deemed reasonably appropriate by your builder or TopBuild Home Services. Your builder, not TopBuild Home Services, is responsible for making any changes or modifications to your home.

Does The Environments for Living® Certified Green program include site management requirements?

No. The Environments for Living® Certified Green program is designed to work seamlessly with existing site management processes and standards so that any community can be improved with this program.

Can I add The Environments for Living® Certified Green program alongside my local green building program?

Yes. As most green building programs concentrate on checklist driven results and tasks, the performance focus of the Environments for Living® Certified Green program not only works with other programs, but enhances their effectiveness and real-world results.

How do I get started with the Environments For Living® Certified Green program?

If you’re interested in learning more about getting started with the Environments for Living® Certified Green program, contact one of our specialists! Let a TBHS expert outline all the ways that the Environments for Living® Certified Green program can work for you.

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