GreenPoint Rated Existing Home

With 70% of our existing home stock in California built prior to 1980 and the adoption of the California Title 24 energy code, the need to upgrade existing homes is enormous. Fortunately, there is a lot of movement in this direction Statewide.

In its continued effort to promote healthy, energy and resource-efficient buildings in California, Build It Green has developed GreenPoint Rated Existing Home, modeled after GreenPoint Rated New Home, the third party rating system in use since late 2006. GreenPoint Rated Existing Home is the first comprehensive green building rating system for existing homes of its kind in the nation and is available for homes of all vintages; existing or undergoing remodeling.

A major objective of the Existing Home rating system is to educate homeowners about the benefits of green remodeling and to provide a pathway for making continued improvements.Depending on a home's current energy performance and the extent of green home improvements, it will receive either an Elements or Whole House consumer label.

Learn More About GreenPoint Rated Existing Home:

-->Download the GreenPoint Rated Existng Home program introduction and FAQ for a more in-depth program description and explanation of the Whole House and Element Labels

-->Download the GreenPoint Rated Existing Home Brochure