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Utah’s largest homebuilder is upgrading its standards to make all new homes Energy Star-certified and add energy and water-saving features.

Ivory Homes, which expects to build 800 single-family homes this year, will install energy-efficient and less-polluting dual-fuel heat pumps in nearly 500 of of those homes in an effort Ivory hopes will be replicated by other Utah homebuilders.

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“Ivory Homes differentiates itself by making a typically optional energy-efficiency package standard in all of our homes,” said Ivory CEO Clark Ivory. “Starting this year, all of our homes will be moving to EnergyStar, a smart thermostat and sprinkler controller, at no additional cost to Ivory homebuyers. In fact, it will save Ivory homebuyers over the long term.”

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