The home building industry has seen remarkable changes in the past few decades. Home square footage has exploded. New materials, mechanical systems, wall systems, and roof systems and have been introduced. Customer lifestyles have shifted, leading to the widespread adoption of master suites and jacuzzi tubs, theater rooms, and two-story family rooms. Home builders must not only keep up with these changes, but recognize the needs of their target market and introduce new features that will add additional value to their customers.

In the midst of this constant change, the home builder employs architects, purchasing agents, trade partners, salespeople, superintendents, and warranty personnel to design, sell, and build the houses. However, for all the individual expertise these actors have in their particular field, few people understand how all the systems come together and interact in affecting home performance. One of the most well documented examples occurred when homes became more energy efficient (or at least tighter), and this led to moisture and mold issues.

Aspen Enterprises can provide the expertise and measurements to document how well your houses are performing. By creating a baseline performance for your houses, you can monitor how particular changes can affect the structure - or to increase the quality of the workmanship and to provide continuing quality assurance. Additionally, your company can begin to make better design and purchasing decisions by understanding how individual decisions can affect the system as a whole.

Aspen Enterprises can provide the information your organization needs to build a better product, and to get the various stakeholders involved to see how their parts mesh together to form the whole house. You get what you measure. Home performance is what the customer gets, and it’s what you should measure.