Question and Answer
By focusing on clean air, the amount of energy consumed by the home is greatly reduced as our air tight homes require less mechanical heating and cooling equipment to keep a comfortable indoor environment.
Our homes are equipped with a controlled fresh air supply system that takes air from the outdoor, gets filtered and mixed with the homes interior air keeping it fresh and healthy.
During the construction process we select durable products that will not rot, produce low emission, and are sensible to the environment extending the life of you home, and reducing ongoing maintenance expenses.
Once we are comfortable with the final numbers of the soft estimate, we will then move to final plan design. Once the architectural plans are completed, we will then design the HVAC system which is an integral part of of high performance home, and if need to complete a full set of structural drawings.
During this process we will engage certain key trades to get feedback on component selections to further value engineer the home if need to.
Once all plans are develop, we will move to our bidding stage. We will send plans and specification to our vendors, suppliers and subcontractors of each trade and division in order to have the best competitive price from qualify tradesman.
Before releasing the purchase orders we will review final budget with home owners, and upon approval start buying down the job and get under construction.
We will handle all necessary permitting and meeting with local issuing authorities as well.
We look for a partnership with our homeowners, from beginning to end, in order to make the best possible decisions given the available resources to meet your goals both in design and performance.
Early in the process we will review the program’s requirements and optional features that are important to you, and make sure they can be incorporated into the home’s specifications.
As an Imery Group policy, all our homes are third party certified, and meet EarthCraft House standards.
Imery Group are always certifies, and we cover a large percentage of this expense.
We will work with you and your team as your consultant through out all stages of planning and construction to help you succeed in achieving your goals.
As of today, Imery Ratings has certified over 1,000 dwellings and counting !!!
Although we can provide design-build services, we are delighted to work with your architect of choice, but highly recommend engaging us in the early stages of planning and schematic designs of your home in order to set up the job for success both in terms of budget and performance.
You don’t want to end up with beautiful home on plans that you can not afford to build.
After the phone interview, and if we both feel comfortable on being able to establish a mutually beneficial working relationship, we will come out and meet with you on-site. During the site visit, we will further review your goals, and budget.
At the end of the site visit, we will give you our honest opinion on what to do and how to proceed to achieve the goal of building your dream home.
If you are then still comfortable on working with us, then we will do a follow up meeting with you and your architect to start generating a working documents to keep everyone on track.
Our preferred lenders understand the value of high performance homes better.
We are flexible enough to work any way you want.
Our goal is to make this construction process as stress free as possible.
We are now well established in the Athens- Atlanta corridor, but will entertain jobs outside this territory as long as they make financial sense for you and us.