Category Archives for Energy Efficiency
Tell Us What You Learned About Home Energy Efficiency
For the last two weeks, we’ve taken you on a virtual tour of Beazer homes, showing you how and why new homes are more energy efficient than existing homes. We’ve taken you behind the scenes to show you the energy saving features of our homes. We’ve showed you energy bills from Beazer homeowners. We also [...]
No Surprise Here – Energy Efficient Lighting Helps Cut Household Energy Use
If you’re looking for an easy way to reduce energy use and costs while you’re designing the interior of your new home, start by looking at your lighting fixtures. Lighting makes up 13 percent of all household energy consumption. Traditional incandescent bulbs waste 90% of their energy as heat. One way to ensure you’re getting [...]
Go Behind the Scenes with Beazer Homes as We Showcase Energy Efficiency
As June kicks off, and the summer months start to heat up, there’s no better time to talk about energy efficiency. We build 100% of our homes to meet or exceed the latest ENERGY STAR® 3.0 certification criteria. Living in an ENERGY STAR certified Beazer home means you’re reducing energy consumption, and saving money on [...]
Happy Earth Day from Beazer Homes!
What are your plans to celebrate today? What? You don’t have any? That’s ok! If you are already living in Beazer home, or planning to buy one, you are already doing your part to be energy efficient. In fact, because we build 100% of our homes to be ENERGY STAR® certified, we have saved the [...]
Energy Efficient Home: What Does That Mean?
At Beazer, we take extra steps to ensure that 100% of the homes we build meet and exceed ENERGY STAR® requirements. You’ve probably heard the term “energy efficient” when referring to household appliances, but do you know what it means to live in an energy efficient home? Energy efficiency can mean different things to different [...]
6 Steps to Winterize Your Home
It’s that time of the season..fall. Glorious fall! When the leaves change color, the air turns crisp and chilly, and your home gets a little extra TLC before the winter freeze sets in. To help you winterize your home before the seasonal change, our Customer Care department compiled these great tips that will keep your [...]
What is an ENERGY STAR Home? (Part 2)
In a previous post we talked to Brian Ng, Communications Manager for the ENERGY STAR Certified Homes Program at the EPA, about the ENERGY STAR certification program for homes. He had some great insight into why a certified home is so valuable. This is the follow up to that conversation. 1. How does a home [...]
What is an ENERGY STAR Home?
One of the most common questions we get asked about our homes is, “what is an ENERGY STAR home?” People are curious about what that means when related to the full house. They are familiar with their dishwasher or refrigerator having the ENERGY STAR logo on them when they get them, but most people don’t recognize that [...]
4 Ideas to Reinvest Your Home Energy Savings
Homes consume 21% of all energy costs in the US, and of that energy used they are wasting up to 30% of it. To help you stop wasting energy and start saving money, check out these simple, eco-friendly ways to take the cash you’ve saved from being energy efficient and reinvest it around your home in [...]
