What does it mean to build green?

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When you build green, you’re making a conscious effort to reduce negative impact and encourage positive impact on both your indoor and outdoor environments.

Green building can increase energy efficiency, indoor air quality, resource efficiency, water conservation and affordability. At the same time, it can reduce your maintenance and replacement costs over the life of your home.

Dominion’s green building practices include taking a look at the whole house and how systems relate to each other, including how they affect the health and comfort of our homeowners. Choosing the products we put into our homes is an important part of the process.

Some green building products have measurable benefits for homeowners, such as using less electricity or water. Other products are more likely to have a reduced impact on the environment such as recycled content or environmentally sensitive manufacturing practices. Dominion’s approach is to select products with multiple benefits and attributes.

Beyond energy conservation, the goal of green building is to direct the efficient use of resources, materials, energy and water as well as maximize the indoor environmental quality.

When you choose to build a green home with Dominion, you benefit in several ways. You lower your utility costs on water, electricity and gas because of reduced usage. In addition, you have a higher level of indoor air quality because of our use of environmentally sensitive building materials and ventilation systems.

* Dominion energy efficient construction comparison based upon the Windmere home plan with basement from Dominion's Celebration Collection.

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