What We Do
Our Services
Viridiant’s building consulting services help builders, developers, and homeowners alike reduce energy waste, increase comfort, improve indoor air, cut down costs and complexity, and choose optimal energy efficiency solutions.
Design Optimization
Our expert team works with builders and developers—as well as homeowners with custom home plans—to develop energy efficient design strategies.
We provide detailed pre-reviews and plan reviews to ensure designs align with energy efficiency goals, building codes, and certification standards.
We also offer recommendations for refining building plans to maximize energy performance while balancing cost, comfort, and functionality.
Green Building Certifications
We guide you through a wide range of respected certification programs for multifamily housing, commercial buildings, and single-family homes. Engage us for help with any of these programs:
Energy Audits
Come to us for help reducing high energy bills, tracking down and getting rid of drafts, and achieving consistent home temperatures. We offer comprehensive diagnostic testing and recommendations.
Options include:
- Blower door testing
- Duct leakage testing
- Infrared scan home inspection
- Holistic energy improvement planning
We provide energy audit services for homeowners, renters, landlords, rental property managers, and commercial building operators. Starting at $89.
Workforce Training & Education
Viridiant’s green building education programs are designed with practicality, value and flexibility in mind. Builders, developers, tradespeople, code officials and others take our courses to gain up-to-the-minute knowledge of building science fundamentals, energy efficiency solutions, building code changes, high-performance housing technologies, and certification programs.
Energy Modeling
Viridiant’s energy modeling services enable builders and developers to develop energy consumption prediction models, helping clients make informed design decisions that reduce long-term operational costs.
Services include:
- Detailed computer simulations of energy use
- Identifying cost-effective efficiency improvements
- Ensuring code compliance
- Validating potential energy savings
- Supporting green building certifications
Funding and Incentive Support
Viridiant experts guide builders, developers, and homeowners through an array of tax rebates and green building incentive programs that reduce upfront costs and improve project feasibility.
We can maximize financial benefits for green building projects by consulting on the following options.
- Multifamily housing: Utility Allowances (UAs), Housing Innovations in Energy Efficiency (HIEE) funding, Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), 45L tax credits, and the 179D tax credit
- Single-family homes: IRA and other federal, state, and utility rebates
Code Compliance and HVAC Design
Our energy code compliance services help builders and developers efficiently and cost-effectively meet state and local energy efficiency standards, reducing potential risks and easing regulatory review.
Services include:
- Blower door, duct blaster, and ventilation testing
- Manual J, S, and D + Residential Plans Examiner Review Form
- Energy modeling and inspections for the Energy Rating Index or Total Building Performance compliance pathways
- Consulting to cost-optimize plans and specifications for energy code compliance
- Training programs on residential energy code compliance
- Technical consulting and plan review
In addition to consulting on residential HVAC design (Manual J/S/D) for code compliance, we provide these services to builders and HVAC contractors looking to optimize HVAC system sizing, selection, and duct layout early in the building process.
Building Investigations and Consulting
Viridiant offers diagnostic testing and investigations to get to the root of indoor air quality and moisture issues, solar consultations to assess your site’s suitability for solar power, and customized needs and feasibility assessments. We provide these services for homes, multifamily properties, small commercial buildings, churches, and similar structures.
Ready to get started?
Contact us to discuss how we can help you achieve measurable success.