As part of its Zero Energy Ready Home (ZERH) program, the U.S. Department of Energy recognizes leading builders who are delivering better homes to Americans across the country. The DOE Housing Innovation Awards are made to those builders who are spurring the housing industry to construct more efficient, healthy, and resilient homes certified to the DOE ZERH program requirements. The DOE ZERH program represents the federal government’s most stringent above-code voluntary program for high-performance homes.
August 1, 2024
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As part of its Zero Energy Ready Home (ZERH) program, the U.S. Department of Energy recognizes leading builders who are delivering better homes to Americans across the country. The DOE Housing Innovation Awards are made to those builders who are spurring the housing industry to construct more efficient, healthy, and resilient homes certified to the DOE ZERH program requirements. The DOE ZERH program represents the federal government’s most stringent above-code voluntary program for high-performance homes.
Housing Innovation Award winners are selected by a panel of industry professionals. Projects are judged on various criteria that reflect DOE decarbonization goals with respect to energy efficiency, reduced carbon emissions, resiliency, and workforce development. These criteria include maximizing cost-effective strategies and processes to achieve high performance outcomes, innovative use of cutting-edge technologies, implementation of carbon reduction strategies, and driving market transformation. Award-winning homes are featured in the Tour of Zero on the Zero Energy Ready Home website. The tour allows visitors to virtually walk through and examine national award-winning projects in all U.S. climate regions.
The 2024 Housing Innovation Award winners will be honored at the Energy & Environmental Building Alliance’s High Performance Home Building Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 1–3, 2024. At the award ceremony, grand winners will be announced in five categories, selected from the pool of winners listed below. Learn more about the 2024 Housing Innovation Awards.
Congratulations to the 2024 Housing Innovation Award Winners!
Winners
Clifton View Homes and Zero Energy Plans
Powerhouse Designs and TC Legend Homes
Special Honors
K. Hovnanian Northeast Division
ENERGY STAR Residential New Construction Comment Period
ENERGY STAR’s Residential New Construction program recently opened several proposals for public comment. There are several policies open for review that, if adopted, will also become part of the Zero Energy Ready Home technical requirements. DOE encourages ZERH partners to review the proposed changes and submit comments.
Read the proposed ENERGY STAR policies and follow the instructions for submitting comments. The comment period closes Aug. 15, 2024.
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