Benefits for Builders

As the builder of a New Jersey ENERGY STAR Home, you’ll enjoy a variety of program benefits including:

• Marketing Assistance: New Jersey ENERGY STAR Homes will help market your homes with the following sales support:
  

  • Sales brochures for your buyers, outlining the benefits of owning a New Jersey ENERGY STAR Home
  • Model Home site signs
  • Public relations support
  • New Jersey ENERGY STAR Homes certificate
  • Co-op advertising and templates
  • Demonstration home tool kit
  • Planar System (video providing overview of New Jersey ENERGY STAR Homes)
    

• Financial Incentives: The New Jersey ENERGY STAR Homes Program provides financial incentives to offset the cost of building a more energy-efficient home. The program also offers rebates to offset the costs of design, verification, and final certification of the ENERGY STAR home. Learn more in the 2012 program changes letter.
  
• Increased Profits: Customers want the added value of an energy-efficient home, giving you a compelling sales advantage ... meaning faster sales ... adding up to increased profits for you.
  
• Qualified Rating Certifications: The New Jersey ENERGY STAR Homes (NJESH) Program works with Rating Companies to provide you, your contractors, and customers to develop a customized, cost-efficient plan to achieve a NJESH certification rating. Working closely with a program-qualified rating company throughout the construction process assures that proper building practices are followed to meet program requirements.
  
• Reduced Callbacks: In reviewing systems and building practices during the construction process, expensive callbacks are reduced, saving you time and money.
  
• Market Participation: The thousands of homes built to New Jersey ENERGY STAR Homes performance standards may only be certified by program-qualified rating companies.
• Technical Support: New Jersey ENERGY STAR Homes Quality Assurance is designed to help participants navigate changing standards and technologies. Our team works to support the efficient and cost-effective performance of all certified homes.
  • Annual Trainings and Orientation
  • Periodic Information Sharing (e-mails, webinars, and/or in-person meetings) on common challenges, or upcoming concerns. 

Builder participation information is available.