Heritage Modular, Central Avenue, Needham, MA has been awarded the Newton-Needham Chamber of Commerce's Green Business of the Year for its efforts "to incorporate environmentally sustainable business practices into their daily operations.

http://www.heritagemodular.com/Areas_Served.htm

http://www.heritagemodular.com/Why_Modular.htm

The homes are prefabricated, ready -made parts custom built in Pennislyvania, through Excel Homes, to construct homes.  These home are 70% built.   Heritage brought what they have learned to Excel Homes and the applicaitons to help promote more energy-efficient homes.

In these days of economizing it only makes sense to be energy efficient.  Over the years methods of being energy efficient have become perfected and effective to the consumer.

Heritage Modular gives their customers the option of having their home Energy Star-certified.  So far they have put up buildings in Westwood, Wellesley, Natick and Lexington.  The agerage Energy Star homeaverages a 30% savnigs in energy costs, or about $400 a year.

To quote Jason Lee of Westwood whose home was built by Heritage Modular he said "We were building, so we thought we might as well do it right the first time."  "We didn't build a home to get an Energy Star rating.  We built it more to save money in the long run."

Heritage Modular is also looking to put up LEED=certified homes.  LEED is a private organization that goes even further than Energy Star certification.

Although they have not had orders in Needham to build an energy-efficient modular home they have built in nearby communities.  I can this trend definitely coming to Needham.

see the complete article in the Needham Times page 1 and 19 July 2, 2009 Steven Ryan can be reached at sryan@cnc.com

http://www.wickedlocal.com/needham/news/business/x931214993/Needhams-Heritage-Modular-goes-green-with-modular-homes

 Pat Baker, Realtor(R), GREEN(R), ABR(R)  Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Needham/Boston, MA 617-435-3471

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