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My reasons were liability, redundancy between programs (how do you know which is best), unnecessary I believe in residential housing as it offers no tax breaks only additional costs and more importantly if you are building correctly and with energy efficiency and sustainability in mind you don’t need the silly plaque on the wall.. just do it. And Continue reading Risky Business December 16th, 2009 | Tags: American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, Business, Construction, Construction and Maintenance, green building, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Occupational Safety and Health, United States Green Building Council | Category: Building Green, Green Risk, LEED, NAHB Guidelines |
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As the home’s green building verifier I’ll be traveling to the “Hub City” at 3:30 or 4:00 a.m. (I should have my head examined) on Monday the 7th for the faming inspection and thermal bypass checklist…(now that should be the news story…that someone was able to get my butt out-a-bed that early for Continue reading Extreme Makeover in Hattiesburg MS Starts this Weekend December 1st, 2009 | Tags: Construction, Extreme Makeover, green building, Hattiesburg Mississippi, Jackson Mississippi, mississippi, Oxford Mississippi | Category: Building Green, Green Living, NAHB Guidelines, energy star |
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Pervious concrete allows water to flow through thereby slowing down the water run-off rate. Pervious concrete can take in storm water at a rate of 3 to 5 gallons per minute per square foot of surface area. That exceeds the flow rate needed to prevent runoff in most rain events. The rainwater may be Continue reading Pervious Concrete October 6th, 2009 | Tags: landscape, LEED, LOT DESIGN, nahb, pervious concrete, water efficiency | Category: Building Green, Lots/Land Development, NAHB Guidelines, concrete |
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NAHB Green Building Guidelines – Continue reading 1.1.1 NGBG – LOT DESIGN, PREPARATION, AND DEVELOPMENT Expect to see this number a lot in energy discussions over the next few years: 2.5 cents/kWh. It is the average cost of energy efficiency, a figure pegged this week in a new report by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Continue reading Efficiency is cheap, but will it sell? September 29th, 2009 | Category: Building Green, Energy Efficiency, LEED, NAHB Guidelines, NAHB Standard |
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