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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.

In a continued effort to promote healthy, energy and resource-efficient buildings in California, Build It Green has developed the GreenPoint Rated Single Family Existing Home program. Modeled after GreenPoint Rated New Home, GreenPoint Rated Existing Home is the first comprehensive green building rating system for existing single family 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 and building professionals about the benefits of the best practices listed in the GreenPoint Rated Existing Home Checklist 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.

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GreenPoint Rated Multifamily Existing Home [Pilot]

Build It Green is currently developing a program to address green retrofits of multifamily existing buildings. Once the program is launched, existing multifamily projects will be able to have a third-party certification demonstrating adherence to strict environmental standards. The program will be designed to complement various state and local green retrofit programs that affordable housing developer/owners will likely utilize to undertake property rehabilitation. It will also address the unique complexity of the multifamily sector, including:


• high-rise, mid-rise, and low-rise structures
• ownership vs. rental
• affordable units vs. market rate
• common areas vs. individual units
• historic structures
• condominiums
 
For local multifamily retrofit programs currently seeking a Rater for a project, please see the attached Excel table. Please note that this list is only for the pilot projects and program specifically referencing it.
 
 
If you have any questions about the pilot program, please contact Christopher Becker, GreenPoint Rated Project Manager at  cbecker@builditgreen.org.

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