Mungo Asks, "How Smart Is Your Home?"

Online, February 13, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Triangle - NC. Mungo Homes is proud to announce "hauSmart" - the new standard in homebuilding. Developed exclusively by Mungo, hauSmart employs the most progressive ideas in new construction to ensure that each home is on the cutting edge of efficiency, affordability and convenience.

One of the main components of hauSmart is that, at completion, each and every home is tested by Home Energy Group -- an independent third party -- to ensure quality and energy efficiency. Each home will receive a HERS (Home Energy Rating System) rating (much like a new car MPG rating) that will project annual energy savings. Advanced construction techniques are being employed so that Mungo homes are now more energy efficient than a new standard code-built home and even more energy efficient than Energy Star rated homes.

No other builders in the market are currently testing and rating a home's energy efficiency. In addition, hauSmart homes have features that are healthier not only for the homeowner but for the environment; and features that make staying organized easier and simply make life more comfortable. All new Mungo homes started after June 10, 2011 are considered hauSmart.

About Mungo Homes

Mungo Homes is part of the Mungo family of companies that started building new homes in Columbia in 1954. With a track record of success based on quality, value and integrity, Mungo now builds new homes in seven markets in North and South Carolina, and enjoys financial security and stability that has escaped many home builders in today's tenuous economic climate. Mungo Homes was recognized as the winner of the 2008 National Housing Quality Award - the home building industry's highest national honor - and is South Carolina's only builder ever honored with this prestigious award. The Mungo family of companies was recently named the 35th largest builder in the country in 2010 by Builder magazine.

For more information visit www.mungo.com or call Kim O'Quinn at (803) 227-8459.