Earth Advantage offers certification programs for affordable and market rate single family homes and multifamily buildings:
Single family – detached homes, duplexes, tri-plexes, townhomes, accessory dwelling units (ADUs)
Certifications apply to detached homes or shared wall homes only.
Multifamily – stacked walls and floor/ceiling shared buildings, residential buildings, dormitories, assisted living facilities, skilled nursing facilities, and continuing care facilities.
No height limits apply. Specializing in low-income building solutions.
Our certification tiers are designed to guide all builders and residential buildings at any level of building performance. From Silver certification, suitable to builders making their first step from code into above code practices all the way to Zero Energy Certification that awards builders for exceptional performance.
Our 5 Pillar (Health, Energy, Land, Water, & Materials) Certification program guides project teams to go beyond the minimum needs of a house and support them in creating a healthy and equitable place of home.
We have the technology and the knowledge to produce net zero homes on a mass scale. Through smart design and leveraging system synergies, we can drastically reduce the operational energy usages in new homes
Productive lifestyles start with good health. We believe a home is a place to thrive physically and emotionally. We encourage our participants to create a place families can raise healthy children and care for elderly without worrying of the toxins in and around their home.
Developing buildable lots, weather greenspace, brown space, or infill, can be costly and time consuming. The impacts of climate change are seen in fires, landslides, and storms. We need to protect our housing stock against.
Harvesting, processing, transporting, and disposing of materials can contain some amount of carbon emissions and worker inequality. We encourage our participants to use products that promote environmental sustainability and healthy working conditions for their employees.
The average American household uses about 300 gallons of water a day. Clean water is an essential component to a healthy life, but since not everyone has the same access to it, we challenge our participants to capture and use water as efficiently as possible.