The true costs of code changes

Helping you optimize your approach to code compliance

Home Innovation already develops national cost studies, but we can tailor reports specifically to your state or region. In order to best understand how code changes will affect your local marketplace, we offer:

• Estimated incremental construction material costs and other costs specific to your state or region based on current market pricing
• Estimated energy savings and operational carbon savings
• Impact assessment of changes using homes with multiple configurations or locations
• Aggregated results using weighted averages
• Cost effectiveness assessment – e.g., simple payback, ROI, Net Present Value

Home Innovation has decades of experience in energy modeling and costing in residential construction. We understand the real-world implications of policy changes and take into account field construction practices, building science, business overhead and profit, and many other factors to deliver the true cost of compliance.

Our estimates are based on:

• Both local and national pricing data
• Local climate conditions and average temperatures
• Standard reference homes or your custom-defined home specs
• Single-family vs. multifamily construction methods
• Distribution of homes by type from our proprietary market construction data
• Common field practices
• Business overhead and profit considerations for builders