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Centex Homes plans to make a suite of energy efficiency products standard in its homes.
Economic and environmental experts see problems and solutions in terms of changing personal behaviors.
A radical shift toward sustainable practices may be the housing industry’s saving grace.
What’s it take for a builder to go green? It starts with a desire to learn and a willingness to push the envelope.
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Building sustainable homes makes sense any way you look at it.
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Panelists at PCBC tell pros to educate their clients about the personal benefits of going green.
Builders are paving new roads into green construction with help from the NAHB.
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The EnergyValue Housing Award can get your company the recognition it deserves.
Florence Lofts marries the sustainability and efficiency of live/work housing with multiple green building products and practices.
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Concordia Homes hopes to leverage sunshine in an otherwise cloudy Las Vegas real estate market.
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Thirteenth annual program recognizes 13 green builders, including Builder of the Year Aspen Homes of Colorado.
Of course, post-industrial houses do have their benefits (indoor plumbing, beer fridges, hi-def surround sound), so the task becomes figuring out how to integrate antiquity’s greatest green lessons into designs that meet the lifestyle demands of today. That is what Tradewinds, our show home for the...
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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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Germany's Technische Universität Darmstadt won the U.S. Department of Energy's 2007 Solar Decathlon competition. The Solar Decathlon, the third event of its kind, was held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Twenty university teams from the U.S., Puerto Rico, Spain, Germany, and Canada signed...
MkLotus is a zero-energy green-built home that will live so light on the land and the grid that its meter will spin backward during periods of light energy demand.
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Green building standards are becoming more universally accepted, but sustainable growth is not without its roadblocks. Following is a round-up of some newly released eco-building programs and findings.
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HUD IS HOPING THAT THE ENERGY-efficient concept home it built in Omaha, Neb., will be a blueprint for the future of American housing.
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Figuring out how the act of home building affects the planet has always been a somewhat vague science, until now. Today, builders, developers, and architects can gauge the eco-friendliness of projects that are on the boards or underway using an online "construction carbon calculator" that...
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AT A TIME WHEN THE HOME building industry is stepping up its efforts to address rising fuel and energy costs by improving the energy efficiency and performance of new homes, the EnergyValue Housing Awards (EVHAs) present an opportunity for environmentally responsible builders to share their best...
Two new products let customers buy now and save later with energy-conserving technology.