The home of the ~~Green Flash~~, Your advocate for performance building

The goal at Aurora Building Performance (ABP) is to help clients in building high performance buildings, which are buildings with superb energy efficiency, water conservation, and resource efficiency. Starting from the fact that these resources are finite and consideration of that fact in the design and construction of buildings can significantly reduce needless waste of those very resources. Green building also results in lower maintenance, longer material life, better Indoor air quality. Often high tech solutions aren’t called for just the intent to be attentive from design through construction to low tech techniques like installing the insulation properly. In the end you end up with a more comfortable home and fewer complaints.

Our Title 24 reports are not the cheapest but they are thought out with reality in mind so that they actually fit the plan. We don’t toss in measures that will cost you more if they can be avoided and if they are necessary we will inform you of them. You don’t want surprises after construction has started or even worse at the final when it is impossible or at least very expensive to achieve. We try to stay up on what is available locally.  See the HERS Rating page for info on third party testing.

We prepared to help interpret the various Green Building Ordinances developed by the building departments in the area.  There can be huge variations from department to department in requirements as well as implementation. We will try to help stabilize what can appear to be a moving target again with the goal of a better more comfortable home.

Recognizing the need to quantify the relative "greeness" of a project organizations like CHEERS,  CalCERTS and Build It Green have developed systems for rating and even measuring specific elements which can then be verified and certified.