J.S. Hovnanian & Sons Premier Delaware Community Receiveds NAHB Green Certification

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J.S. Hovnanian & Sons Premier Delaware Community Receives
NAHB Green Standard Certification

Homes in J.S. Hovnanian & Sons Roesville community – the company’s first housing community in Delaware – have been certified as “green” by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) according to its new green building guidelines.

According to the NAHB, green homes utilize a wide variety of sustainable home building practices in both their design and in their building process. Incorporating renewable materials to conserve energy and preserve the earth’s valuable environmental resources, these homes ultimately meet all of the specifications outlined in the NAHB’s National Green Building Guidelines.

When completed, the active adult buyers of Roesville will enjoy life in one of over 400 ranch-style, single-family homes – each offering a variety of innovative three-bedroom, two-bath designs. The homes will be built using specific materials and building techniques that meet NAHB guidelines. When built to such high efficiency standards, homeowners will expend less energy to achieve the same level of comfort they have become accustomed to.

J.S. Hovnanian & Sons engineers have conducted extensive research and have estimated the following energy savings for Roesville homeowners:

The accumulative energy savings once all 444 homes are completed will be more or less equivalent to removing 175 cars from the road, reducing independence on oil by 2,219 barrels per year or saving seven acres of forest from deforestation.
Similarly, the individual cost-savings in owning one of these homes is roughly equivalent to the planting of 55 trees each year, recycling 1,480 lbs of trash or having 67 families switching from plastic to reusable grocery bags.

Roesville models are priced starting in the low $200,000’s. The community is host to many luxurious amenities including indoor/outdoor pools, a state-of-the-art fitness center, a travel library, basketball and tennis courts, putting greens and a multi-modal fitness trail. The age-restricted community also features a 10,000 square-foot lodge – a state-of-the-art facility that inspires a sense of community and activity among a new trend of active-adult buyers.

For more information about J.S. Hovnanian & Sons’ Roesville community in Delaware, please contact Kathy Engel at 302-335-5804 or visit http://www.hovhomes.com/. Energy savings are estimates, based on comparisons of building the same floor plan to minimum energy and building code requirements, and will vary based on usage.

(prepared by JS Hovnanian & Sons)