Programs

Offering Services to Improve Building Practices

As a nonprofit resource organization committed to accelerating the spread of green building practices and carbon reduction solutions, Earth Advantage Institute offers a range of programs and services that make it easy to build, remodel, test and rate high performance structures at any level of builder expertise and budget.

MacKenzie performs a duct blast test on a home for SHP program participants.

From Sustainable Homes to Sustainable Finance

Through its programs the organization seeks to create integrated market mechanisms that can help change energy behavior, from the Earth Advantage New Homes certification program that offers builders financial incentives; to the Energy Performance Score, a miles-per-gallon style rating for homes; and the Sustainable Finance program, working with lenders to create new preferred loan and insurance products for green homeowners.

 

Expert Staff

The organization’s service arm is composed of technical experts who provide third party home performance testing and energy rating audits, often a prerequisite for FHA-approved Energy Improvement Mortgages and other energy upgrade loans.

Earth Advantage Institute’s research department partners with leading universities and other research institutions to provide the industry with a range of green building data, from valuation studies to assessment of green building performance tools, and surveys on consumer energy and sustainability attitudes.