October 2009 - SUWANEE - Touchstone Homes is proud to announce its partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR Program for all new pre-sale homes. Touchstone Homes is currently building Energy Star Homes in Tributary and Village Grove, and any new start effective immediately will be an Energy Star rated home. Through this partnership, Touchstone Homes will provide homebuyers with energy efficient new homes that save money on utility bills, offer greater comfort and better performance, and help to protect the environment.
To earn the ENERGY STAR, a home must meet strict guidelines for energy efficiency set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. These homes are at least 15% more energy efficient than homes built to the 2004 International Residential Code (IRC), and include additional energy-saving features that typically make them 20-30% more efficient than standard homes.
"Touchstone Homes is building more efficiently, by building a more efficient home," says Jeffrey J. Abraham, CFO, "Touchstone has partnered with ENERGY STAR® to provide a home with more square footage for a lower price but also saves the consumer in energy costs."
ENERGY STAR qualified homes offer homebuyers all the features they want in a new home, plus energy-saving features like effective insulation systems, high performance windows, tight construction and ducts, properly-sized and installed efficient heating and cooling equipment, efficient products, and third-party verification of energy performance.
"Most homebuyers focus on what's outside the walls," said Sam Rashkin, National Director for EPA's ENERGY STAR Homes Program, "but they also need to look behind the walls for the energy -efficient features found in ENERGY STAR qualified homes that help ensure comfort, quiet, improved indoor air quality, and low utility bills for years to come."
Touchstone Homes has been developing and building in some of Atlanta's finest communities since 1994. Over the years, as one of Atlanta's premier new home builders, Touchstone Homes has built new homes in Barrow, Gwinnett, Forsyth, North Fulton, Hall, Cobb, and Douglas Counties. Touchstone Homes' experienced new home builders and on-site professionals are well versed in assisting homebuyers throughout the entire home building process to ensure all your expectations are met. From the time you select your home and make all of your selections in our Design Studio to the day you move into your new home-we're with you every step of the way.
Touchstone Homes has received numerous Professionalism Awards from the Greater Atlanta Homebuilder's Association, and the company has earned the coveted Certified Professional Home Builder and Energy Star Certified designations. Touchstone Homes has also received the national award of America's Best Builder for 2007 by Builder Magazine. For more information on Touchstone Homes call 770-945-5228 or visit
www.touchstonehomes.com.
ENERGY STAR was introduced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 as a voluntary market-based partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through increased energy efficiency. Today, ENERGY STAR offers businesses and consumers energy-efficient solutions to save energy, money and help protect the environment for future generations. More than 12,000 organizations are ENERGY STAR partners committed to improving the energy efficiency of products, homes, buildings and businesses. For more information about ENERGY STAR, visit
www.energystar.gov or call toll-free 1-888-STAR-YES (1-888-782-7937).
