Environmental Initiative
Our Efforts to Conserve & Preserve
From the building of our new homes to our in-office practices, The Mungo Companies makes every effort to converse resources and preserve our planet.
Keeping a keen eye on materials, our production staff ensures that construction waste is minimal on our new home sites with leftover materials often donated. Energy–saving products, including low-flow plumbing fixtures, Energy Star appliances in applicable neighborhoods, top-rated insulation and HVAC systems, are the norm.
Other initiatives:
- Mungo Homes, 1st American Builders and Mungo Construction are Energy Star™ Partners. Mungo Construction Division President Thom Chumney is a Certified Green Professional™.
- Sovereign Homes president Allyson Way Hank is a member of the Home Builder’s Association of Greater Columbia Green Building Council.
- Dormant winter grass at model homes is painted green with a non-toxic, eco-friendly paint, which alleviates the need for watering and fertilizing.
- Bottled water is no longer offered at model homes, but rather filtered water in recycled paper cups.
- Recycle bins are placed at each desk inside the office.
- Community Covenants & Restrictions are now on CD, rather than printed.
- Mungo Homes has joined the Keep Columbia Beautiful “Adopt a Highway” program tending to the road fronting the corporate office in Columbia.
- A wetlands mitigation bank has been established in Lexington County to restore areas surrounding wetlands.
- One hundred trees were planted along the road into town from the Columbia Metropolitan Airport – a project spearheaded by Stewart Mungo.
- The Mungo family donated 185 acres in Northeast Columbia to Richland County to use as an interpretive learning center or preserved green space.