why build smart?

The County of Ventura & local cities encourage you to make your building project as energy efficient and ecologically responsible as possible.

Designing a home or commercial structure to minimize use of energy and resources helps everybody: Owners and tenants benefit from reduced energy bills and operating costs as well as improved health and productivity, and the whole community benefits from a building that produces fewer greenhouse gases over the life of the building— improving the surrounding environment long into the future.

That’s pretty smart.