Half A Million Dollars Saved

A large group home builder came to us with a development of 150 houses that needed to meet H1 thermal performance standards. Scale is where compliance costs spiral, because a single specification choice gets repeated across every home. We redesigned the H1 specification from the ground up, reworking the thermal envelope so each house performed better rather than simply meeting the minimum.

Then we ran the numbers across all 150 builds. The result was a specification that raised thermal performance and cut costs by half a million dollars across the development. Better performance and lower cost are not opposites when the redesign is done right. That is the difference between meeting a standard and engineering it.