Bridge City, Texas Aug 15, 2022 – Barfield Home Inspections is proud to announce that it’s dba, BHI-Energy Efficiency Solutions has earned a 2022 ENERGY STAR® Market Leader Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in recognition of its contribution to verifying energy-efficient new homes that have earned ENERGY STAR certification. ENERGY STAR certified homes are at least 10% more energy efficient than those built to code and achieve a 20% improvement on average while providing homeowners [and/or residents] with better quality, performance, and comfort.
The Market Leader Award recognizes partners participating in EPA’s ENERGY STAR Residential New Construction program who have made a significant positive impact in energy-efficient construction and environmental protection by building or verifying at least 50 ENERGY STAR certified homes and apartments, or by sponsoring a local program that supported these activities, over the past year. More than 120,000 ENERGY STAR certified single-family homes and multifamily units were built in 2021, for a total exceeding 2.3 million since 1995.
“Our 2022 Market Leader Award winners demonstrate true leadership in bringing energy efficiency to the residential new construction marketplace,” said Jonathan Passe, Chief of the ENERGY STAR Residential Branch. “ENERGY STAR offers a proven whole-house approach that is transforming the residential market to a higher standard of construction quality while protecting the environment for all.”
“Our company is committed to our clients, builders, to be able to provide the most cost effective and up-to-date methods available to verify the properties they are designing, constructing, and implement into habitable dwellings so that their clients, home and property owners, can obtain residential and commercial buildings that will save them on energy cost for years to come. Being able to partner with Energy Star has allowed us to provide the type of verifications needed in a manner that is accepted nationwide.”
About BHI-Energy Efficiency Solutions
Our company was formed in 1999 and originally performed home inspections, which we continue to do. Since then, we have branched into residential and commercial building inspections, pest and termite control, and energy efficiency testing and inspections along with HERS Ratings, and Energy Star certifications. Our specialty is performing inspections, testing and verifications, treatments and pest and termite control in Disaster Recover Programs and for anyone needing our services. We are also committed to Energy Star to continue to encourage builders to partner with Energy Star in constructing verifiable energy efficient homes for their clients.
About ENERGY STAR
ENERGY STAR® is the government-backed symbol for energy efficiency, providing simple, credible, and unbiased information that consumers and businesses rely on to make well-informed decisions. Since 1992, ENERGY STAR and its thousands of partners have helped American families and businesses save 5 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity, avoid more than $500 billion in energy costs, and achieve 4 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas reductions. More background information about ENERGY STAR can be found at energystar.gov/about and energystar.gov/numbers.
