Industry Certifications

By exceeding local and national building code in many ways we provide you with a uniquely superior home to that offered by most other builders in Connecticut. Our performance goals include energy efficiency; high indoor air quality (IAQ); unsurpassed comfort; safety from mold, radon, and combustion byproducts; low maintenance and high durability.

In addition to our Connecticut licenses as a New Home Contractor and a Home Improvement contractor, we can offer the following third party certifications for our homes:

• ENERGY STAR® is an EPA program managed in this area by CL&P, our local electric utility. Homes are certified following plan review, inspection, and testing. Every home we build exceeds ENERGY STAR standards.
• Health House is a program offered by the American Lung Association. The building science standards established by this program are among the strictest in the nation. BPC has built the only Health House in the state of Connecticut and is the only builder, to our knowledge, certified to build another in the state.

We are perhaps the only builder in Connecticut trained and authorized to complete HERS ratings (Home Energy Rating System) and regularly work with other builders to rate their homes and to help them to achieve ENERGY STAR status for their homes.

BPC staff has undergone extensive training in residential building science. Among the recent educational and training programs we have completed are the following:

• Northeast Utilities Energy-Crafted Home residential construction course
• NESEA (Northeast Sustainable Energy Association) conferences
• EEBA (Energy and Environmental Building Association) conferences
• NAHB (National Association of Home Builders) Research Center Green Building Conference
• Affordable Comfort home construction conferences
• Certified Indoor Environmentalist course, IAQA (Indoor Air Quality Association)

BPC is also a member of the following organizations: