brown7621 on Houzz 8 years ago
05/10/2015, 04:21 AM
My company, Earth Advantage, is the green building certification that Noyes Development obtains on every home they build. I can personally attest that their homes are incredibly well built in the way that leads to lasting value- the building "shell" is going to be extremely durable and long lasting. These are truly high performance homes. A Noyes home does a superior job of controlling the four flows that a builder must control to call themselves a high performance builder: Air flows, moisture flows, thermal flows and vapor flows. We inspect every Noyes home twice while its being built, and perform sophisticated performance testing on these homes. Building science experts agree that the single most important metric as to how well the shell is built is how air tight it is. Noyes builds incredibly tight homes, averaging about 2.0 ACH@50pa. That level of airtightness would be awesome for a guy building one or two homes a year, but Noyes pulls off this incredible achievement over the course of many homes. They do this by defining their very high standard of quality and then demanding their subcontractors met their expectations. The Noyes field personnel inspect for what they "expect." Of course, they include advanced balanced whole house mechanical ventilation systems in every home. They even have an exhaust fan in the garage (separate from the whole house ventilation system) that's motion activated. I've worked in the home building business for almost 30 years, and am currently the director of building certifications at Earth Advantage. I can unequivocally say that there is no home builder in Oregon building more than 15 homes a year who is even close to building the quality into their homes that Noyes does. In my professional role I keep tabs on national home building trends, and I would wager that you could count on one hand all the builders nationwide who build more than 30 homes a year and are as advanced as Noyes. Finally, the company is so well run in every aspect I see that I know, from my own experience building homes for 20+ years, that they are delivering what they promise to home buyers, subcontractors, vendors and other stakeholders. They're that good!!