Ontario Homebuilder Wins Prestigious ENERGY STAR® Award
By on Jun 13, 2012
Reid’s Heritage Homes wins first-ever ENERGY STAR® Award presented to a homebuilder in Canada.
Guelph, Ontario-based Reid’s Heritage Homes has been honoured by the federal Ministry of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), and arm of the Federal Government, with the inaugural ENERGY STAR® Builder of the Year Award. This is the first-ever national level award of its kind presented to any homebuilder across Canada.
Reid’s Heritage Homes joins a prestigious roster of past ENERGY STAR® Award recipients, which include renowned names such as Sears Canada, Hydro Quebec and Ontario Power Authority as well as this years fellow winners, Whirlpool Canada, Jeld-Wen Windows and Home Depot Canada.
The Awards in various categories were presented by the Director-General for the Office of Energy Efficiency, Natural Resources Canada, at a gala ceremony held on June 5, 2012 at the Fairmont Château Laurier in Ottawa. The Awards recognize leadership in a wide range of energy-efficient products, technologies and services and outstanding efforts in promoting ENERGY STAR® qualified products to benefit Canadian consumers and businesses.
“We are incredibly honoured to receive this prestigious award,” said Tim Blevins, President of Reid’s Heritage Homes. “As a third-generation homebuilder, we are constantly pushing the envelope with innovative designs and achieving efficiencies and savings for our homebuyers.”
Reid’s Heritage Homes is one of the first homebuilders in Ontario to recognize, prioritize and embrace the principles and practices of sustainability and energy efficiency for homes. One of the earliest adopters of ENERGY STAR® construction as a standard practice in their diverse new home communities, Reid’s Heritage Homes has several firsts in green building to its credit.
Derek Satnik, Managing Director of Kitchener-based Mindscape Innovations and a long-time Reid’s Heritage Homes business associate said, "Reid’s Heritage Homes is the best kind of leader. They're constantly trying new things, but better, they're innovating in very careful ways: watching their budgets, catering their innovation to consumer needs, and making a real difference."
Reid’s Heritage Homes built Canada’s first LEED home (also the first LEED Platinum), the first Built Green home in Ontario (also Built Green Platinum), certified by the Canada Green Building Council and Built Green Canada respectively. Reid’s Heritage Homes is also offering the City of Guelph’s Blue Built Home program in its signature Westminster Woods community in Guelph. In 2007, Reid’s Heritage Homes was honoured by the Ontario Home Builders Association with their first Green Builder of the Year Award, and has won many accolades since.
Reid’s Heritage Homes’ core principles of green building are encompassed in its comprehensive EnviroWISE™ Program for homes. The EnviroWISE™ Program covers a wide cross-section of the most essential parameters of green living, including health, comfort, resource, materials, technology, energy and savings. Besides raising the bar for sustainable home design and construction among its own staff, Reid’s Heritage Homes has also organized and challenged a consortium of suppliers to work together and develop new technologies to make homes greener and more efficient.
About ENERGY STAR®
ENERGY STAR® is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy that helps save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices.
ENERGY STAR® has helped to save enough energy in 2010 alone to avoid greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those from 33 million cars — all while saving nearly $18 billion on utility bills. Energy efficient choices can save families about a third on their energy bill with similar savings of greenhouse gas emissions, without sacrificing features, style or comfort.
Reid’s Heritage Homes is a leader in the new homebuilding industry in Southwestern Ontario. For over three decades, Reid’s Heritage Homes has been offering the right home to fit each purchaser’s lifestyle, from executive estates to retirement communities, from townhomes, semis, bungalows and two-storey homes to carefree condominium living. Consistently setting new standards for quality, customer service, value and environmental integrity, Reid’s Heritage Homes has been honoured with over 100 awards of excellence.
For media enquiries contact:
Ashley Ferraro
Reid’s Heritage Homes
Director, Marketing and Communications
aferraro@heritagehomes.com
519.658.6656
