How do I find a green builder in my region?

We don’t have a listing of builders to offer unfortunately, but we can offer some advice on how to search and make a final selection, see this page - 

Tips for finding a reliable green home builder

If you find a potential candidate and they can’t take on your project themselves, ask them for recommendations, local performance builders have often heard of each other. Aside from that, you can make some calls to local builders and see what types of homes they construct, ask them a few basic questions to weed them out – 

• Do you build high performance / energy efficient homes?
• Do you build airtight homes?
• Do you conduct blower door tests?
• Do you do energy modelling?
• Are you familiar with different types of wall assemblies, and which do you prefer?

Their answers will tell you right away, in that they will either answer the question with confidence or they may dodge it a bit.  

You can also do some research here on our pages about home performance, ventilation, durability, etc, so you are armed with a bit of info when you make calls. I would say that you are best off with a builder that respects your goals for performance, durability, air quality etc, rather than trying to talk you down from them. 

If you end up getting conflicting information from different builders about what you ‘should do’ or what you ‘shouldn’t do’, or different wall systems, drop us another question here if you like and we may be able to help sort out the good from the bad. 

And if you want to chat about design and best practices we can do a quick phone consultation to help you make a final decision if you like. Feel free to drop us an email at [email protected].

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