Engineering Resilience into Your Home
Home Performance Design and Specifications is how TONER Home Performance delivers a new build, remodel, or restoration to thrive in our hot, humid Southern climate.
We design/specify the HVAC, insulation, building envelope, attic strategy, and indoor humidity control as a single integrated system - built around your Climate, your Construction, and your family (the Client). The result is a home that's resilient, comfortable, and healthy. Energy efficiency follows as a byproduct.
How We Help Homeowners
We consider the Three C's - Climate, Construction, and Client - in tandem, because designing them in isolation is exactly how the recurring performance failures we see in other projects begin.
Our deliverable is a Building Performance Specification Book that your architect, builder of record, trades, and the homeowner work from. And we stay with it through construction: a dedicated project manager may handle questions, meetings, site visits, verification, and final testing for the life of the project.
The Three Pillars of Performance
Climate
The south is a uniquely demanding place to build. We provide homes that fight humidity, heat, and vapor drive - comfortable inside, resilient outside. After years of correcting failures, we know exactly what goes wrong, and we apply that knowledge at the front end.
We design for resiliency first; a sustainable, energy-efficient home is the byproduct.
We look "forward," accounting for how the climate's effects on structures are shifting over time.
The south spans two climate zones and six environment types - we've completed projects in all of them.
Construction
We are experts in HVAC, insulation, windows, walls, roofing, attic assemblies, foundation configurations, the building envelope, drainage and dissipation planes, indoor air comfort and quality, microclimate standards, historic structures, and coastal applications - and, critically, in how they all work together as one system.
Our expertise is typically deeper than that of the installing trade.
Understanding how the trades interact is what makes each of them perform.
Manufacturers retain us to improve their own products and installation standards.
Client
Every household has a performance need - from allergies and autoimmune sensitivities to lifestyle factors like oil painting, professional baking, steam showers, or a home office. We ask the questions other professionals skip, because these details are usually at the root of future forensic or legal problems - and essential to getting the project right.
We design for the client's future needs, not just today's.
We make architectural recommendations that support how the family actually lives.
We find creative solutions that respect budget and construction constraints.
Does your project sound like a good fit?
Initial case reviews and technical consultations are completely free. Our team reviews your details and responds within one business day.