Home Energy Efficiency Consultants LLC

Home Energy Efficiency Consultants LLC, based in Somerville, is a one-person specialist practice built around a single job: getting homes and small multifamily buildings through the Massachusetts HERS rating and energy code process. Owner Dominic Zammuto does the work himself — his name is the point of contact in nearly every review, whether the project is an ADU in Newton, a single-family renovation in Worcester, or a multi-family new build. The Google page backs that up with volume — 87 ratings, all five stars — and the specifics rarely let up. Homeowners and general contractors describe the same pattern: Dominic walks them through the stretch energy code and HERS requirements step by step, turns reports around quickly, and stays reachable by text through inspections and permitting. In the last six months alone he picked up 58 reviews without a single negative one in the mix, and the praise keeps naming the same things — an ADU report delivered fast, a multi-family HERS certificate that unlocked rebate money, a renovation kept on schedule because he showed up when he said he would. Several reviews single out the money side specifically: he lines up Mass Save rebate paperwork alongside the HERS certificate, something more than one reviewer said they hadn't known to ask about. A general contractor who has used him on repeat projects credits him with keeping builds moving without the compliance step becoming a bottleneck. Worth knowing before calling: he isn't a general contractor in the hands-on sense. Every review describes him working alongside a homeowner's or builder's own construction team, handling the energy compliance and testing piece of the permit rather than the framing or renovation itself. If your project needs someone to also run the construction, you'll still need your own GC — Dominic's lane is the HERS rating, the stretch-code paperwork, and the rebate guidance that rides along with it. For anyone in the Somerville/Boston area needing a HERS rating to close out a permit — on an ADU, a gut renovation, or a multi-unit new build — this is a call that consistently gets answered and a report that consistently lands on time. His Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor license checks out as active with the state. Confirm turnaround against your specific permit deadline, and ask him to loop in the Mass Save incentives from the start.