A few green building programs reward builders for avoiding certain materials and products in an effort to consider costs and local culture.
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Organization has traditionally evaluated only wood forest products.
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Founder of cradle-to-cradle movement challenges some widely held green beliefs and forecasts a post-industrial revolution
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Now here's a new use for grayfields: The Dutch engineering firm Ooms Avenhorn BV has developed a thermal loop system that siphons solar energy from asphalt and uses it to heat homes and office buildings. The company's patented Road Energy System consists of an underground framework of flexible pipes...
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Consumer interest in green building is clearly on the rise, with concern over energy prices and climate change as two of the driving factors. And while the definition of green building is still in the process of being determined and fully understood by the residential industry, you might be surprise...
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Fifteen years ago, before the sustainable building groundswell began in earnest, environmentally friendly products had an organic (some might say earthy) look that only the sandal-wearing hippie fringe could appreciate. If you were looking for a refined finish, you looked elsewhere.
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Green builders everywhere rejoice-the list of green building products has just grown longer thanks to the release of BuildingGreen's 2007 Top-10 Green Building Products. Brattleboro, Vt.-based BuildingGreen, publisher of the GreenSpec Directory and Environmental Building News, announced the list at ...
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Builders are expected to avoid environmentally sensitive areas and complete a natural resources inventory of the parcel; they also can earn extra credits by choosing an infill, grayfield, or brownfield site for the project, orienting the house to achieve passive solar benefits, practicing creative s...
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An advanced framing package is likely to include as much engineered lumber as possible, which not only reduces the amount of lumber required, but also makes more efficient use of forest resources and is less likely to warp in application, meaning a tighter structure with less thermal transfer.
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Overall, the goal among green building certification programs is the same: to boost the performance of new housing to achieve a smaller environmental footprint.
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Former President Bill Clinton kicked off Greenbuild 2007 by outlining a series of sweeping partnerships aimed at improving the energy efficiency of hundreds of millions of square feet of public and private real estate throughout the United States.
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October 2007 news and views from the world of green building.
America's landfills may be a little less, well, filled in the near future if innovators such as Frank Little keep making trips to the patent office. Little, the founder of Magnolia, Texas-based Tax Advantage Design, recently unveiled a demountable drywall tape system that provides an alternative mea...
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After two years and "thousands of reports," the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) announced its findings on Polyvinyl chloride(PVC) last week. The Technical and Scientific Advisory Committee (TSAC) turned over its final report final report to the USGBC's LEED Sterling Committee (LSC) and ...
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WHILE GREEN BUILDING continues to rise in popularity across the nation, many people remain unsure about what it means to build green or where to begin.
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For sure, houses have a huge environmental impact and a major affect on quality of life. So “greening” homes is clearly an idea with practical merit for the planet and for people. But “green” is also the hot new marketing fad—which makes a lot of people eager to jump on the bandwagon with green clai...
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By any standard of measurement, green building is hot. Green building has now spilled over into the residential world as well. According to the NAHB, 14,600 green homes were built in 2004, up from 2,500 in 2000.
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IN 2005, THE NAHB PUBLISHED the Model Green Home Building Guidelines to move green building further into the mainstream and to provide a practical baseline for resource-efficient, cost-effective home building.
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WHEN THE HISTORY OF U.S. HOUSING IS written, 2006–2007 is likely to be characterized as a watershed, marking the start of an era when green building moved into the home builder mainstream, according to a new study by the NAHB and Mc-Graw-Hill Construction. By 2007, the study finds, almost two-thirds...
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- The number of homes destroyed in hurrican Katrina is expected tod dwarf the losses from any previous U.S. natural disaster.
- The Buffalo and Niagara Falls, N.Y. metropolitan area is the nation's most affordable major housing market for the second quarter of 2005.
- The NAHB announces details fo...