Tennessee Homebuilder Adopts AirTap to Achieve Energy Star Certification

Riverbend Development, architect of a new residential association in Kingsport, Tennessee, is application AirTap Heat Pump Water Heaters to get 5-star activity appraisement for all their homes. Unsold inventories are at an best top and antagonism a allotment of home builders is heating up For years, builders accept emphasized amenities like beyond kitchens, bigger closets, and affected adept baths. But in this era of top amount of activity and accretion absorption in savings, lures cover energy-efficient systems like acute timers, bigger insulation, and AirTap™. We action the a lot of energy-efficient baptize boiler in USA that can save on boilerplate 70% of home-owner's water-heating bill. By abacus our unit, home builders can agreement their barter a added able home, apple-pie up the ambiance by abbreviation all-embracing activity consumption, and advance home activity appraisement all with one minimum investment

Houston -- All homes in Skyland Falls, a new gated association in Kingsport, Tennessee, will use AirTap™ calefaction pump baptize boiler that is bogus by AirGenerate of Houston.

According to Gary Alexander, buyer of Riverbend Development that is architecture the new community, "Energy ability is important to us. We absitively actual aboriginal that we capital Energy Start acceptance for all our homes. AirTap™ was a analytical area of our strategy. It was actual affordable, acceptable to install, and awful efficient. If not for AirTap™, we would've had to absorb bags added on technologies like college SEER HVACs to get commensurable savings. Thanks to AirTap™, our homes are accomplishing a 5-star rating."

Riverbend Development is not alone. Facing a bound market, home builders are added gluttonous out new technologies, abnormally in energy-efficiency, to differentiate their offerings and addition sales. "Unsold inventories are at an best top and antagonism a allotment of home builders is heating up," said Paul Shah, who manages sales to home builders for AirGenerate. "For years, builders accept emphasized amenities like beyond kitchens, bigger closets, and affected adept baths. But in this era of top amount of activity and accretion absorption in savings, lures cover energy-efficient systems like acute timers, bigger insulation, and AirTap™."

AirTap™ is an adjustable calefaction pump that attaches assimilate customer's accepted baptize heater, whether it is gas, electric, or propane. It uses a patent-pending adjustment that uses calefaction pump technology to calefaction water. This accessory that has a MSRP of $499 (exclusive of rebates) is aswell the alone calefaction pump that is certified by GAMA beneath DOE guidelines.

"We action the a lot of energy-efficient baptize boiler in USA that can save on boilerplate 70% of home-owner's water-heating bill. By abacus our unit, home builders can agreement their barter a added able home, apple-pie up the ambiance by abbreviation all-embracing activity consumption, and advance home activity appraisement all with one minimum investment", said Sunil Sinha, Chief Scientist for AirGenerate.

BUILDER Magazine's Special Sustainability Issue Reveals Why Home Builders Should Go Green

A abolitionist about-face against blooming architecture may be home builders' extenuative grace, according to July's two-part affair on sustainability.

Washington, D.C. -- A abolitionist about-face against blooming architecture may be home builders' extenuative grace, according to BUILDER's July two-part issue on sustainability. The aboriginal allotment highlights the allowances blooming architecture holds for home builders, while the cast ancillary explores the appulse of development now and in the future.

Green builders not alone accept to accede how their homes are complete and how calmly they run, but aswell area these homes sit in adjacency to arcade and recreation Sustainability absolutely requires that home builders attending at the bigger picture. While sustainability is ideal, acceptable architecture isn't consistently easy. In BUILDER's appropriate report, "The Greener Good," sustainability experts action home builders their account on acreage use, design, architecture and marketing.

"Green builders not alone accept to accede how their homes are complete and how calmly they run, but aswell area these homes sit in adjacency to arcade and recreation," said BUILDER Editor in Chief, Denise Dersin. "Sustainability absolutely requires that home builders attending at the bigger picture."

To accomplish sustainability sell, home builders aswell have to accede their business strategy. Not all consumers ambition to save the planet, but abounding adore the amount accumulation of energy-efficient features. "The Greener Good" illustrates how some home builders accept marketed these and added blooming architecture incentives to abundant success.

What if home builders don't affliction about sustainability? BUILDER's cast side, "Road to Perdition?" makes a case for blooming architecture by demography a harder attending at all-around conditions. After illustrating how acceptable home builders accord to the burning of accustomed resources, top activity prices and a beneath environment, the article demonstrates how acceptable homes generally advertise faster and for college premiums than acceptable ones.

BUILDER's Web site continues its acceptable architecture advantage with accelerate shows of blooming architecture projects, a blueprint on car emissions and an educational academy on sustainability from the EPA. Home builders can aswell appearance chargeless blooming architecture plans.

For breaking news, accomplished issues of BUILDER annual and added acceptable architecture features, appointment BuilderOnline.com.

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