Green Building Certifications to Seek
Construction is rapidly making adjustments to be more eco-friendly, leading to the development of green building certifications. These certifications give customers an idea of how their home reduces their carbon footprint and decreases environmental impac...
How Green Building Impacts Homeowner's Insurance
As a builder, developer or investor, you already know the importance of having the proper insurance coverage on a project. You may even already know the ins and outs of how to insure green construction projects while they are being built, but do you know ...
Green Construction in Homes vs. Multi Unit Dwellings
Green building is not only a growing trend, it can also have numerous benefits for the builder or investor. However, there are some key differences in green construction in single family homes versus multi-unit dwellings. Knowing those differences before ...
The Challenges of Green Building
Green building has obvious benefits for consumers as well as builders and investors - namely energy efficiency, recycled materials, and environmentally friendly processes and technologies - but there are reasons this growing trend hasn’t become as commonp...
The LEED Rating System Explained
When it comes to green design, there is one internationally recognized benchmark that you’ll come across time and time again - The LEED Rating System. An abbreviation of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, it is a comprehensive certification sy...
Incorporating Green Material in Construction
Green building, or green construction, has been around for decades but wasn't truly formalized until the 1990s. The LEED rating system's pilot program was launched in 1998, but the US government didn't catch up until the 2005 Energy Policy Act. Today, gre...
What is Green Building? Make it Work for You
As humans use of man-made resources increased over the years, we learned that our carbon footprint was destroying our planet. In the 1960s, people started to realize that if we wanted to keep our planet around, something had to change. Today, developers c...
