Are USModular Homes in Inglewood LEED Certified, Environmentally Friendly, and Energy Star Certified?
Modular homes in Inglewood are friendlier on the environment and greener than site built residential buildings. Make your customized home as green as it can be with a prefab home!
Its clear that ‘going green’ is important to the residents of Inglewood. From green hotels, green dining and activities and green shopping, green cars, and green architecture, its evident Inglewood residents have the environment in the forefront in all parts of living.
USModular is compelled to saving you as much money and time as possible. We also know that its our responsibility as home builders to save the environment as much as we are able to.
Assembling homes off-site and in a controlled factory allows us to take advantage of reprocessing and recycling processes, inventory and garbage control, and humidity control. Each of our customized modular residential buildings comes standard with many environmentally friendly aspects. USModular always uses energy efficient Low E windows, pex water piping, fiberglass batt insulation, low flow valves, and many more environmentally friendly options. Our design teams and architects work personally with homeowners and home builders from throughout the country to ensure that their modular project is LEED Certified in one out of the four certification tiers.
Four Tiers of LEED Certification in Inglewood
LEED certification in Inglewood is a point based approach with which building projects earn LEED points for meeting specific “green building’ benchmarks. Categories are based on sustainability, water efficiency, energy efficiency, materials used, and indoor air quality. The number of points earned establishes which rank of LEED Certification the project receives. LEED certification is attainable in four gradual tiers according to the following scale:
There are 100 base points, and certification tiers are as follows:
- Certified 40-49 points
- Silver 50-59 points
- Gold 60-79 points
- Platinum 80 points and above
To learn more about the LEED certification and green initiatives for the Inglewood area, visit http://www. usgbc. org/articles/using-leed-good.
The LEED Certification Track That’s Right For You
At USModular, we help you determine the best certification path for your prefab customized home and give you the tools and resources you need to have an instantaneous and measurable impression on your home or building’s performance, both in your wallet and in your carbon foot print.
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