Abby P, Author at Green Home Builder

The ABC Green Home 4.0 project has an air conditioning story in its tall attic storage room which demonstrates how builders can make California’s Title 24 code requirements work to their advantage.

For more information on the ABC Green Home 4.0 Project click here. To view the live stream, click here.

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Builder.Media Principals Accepting ASCE 2018 Sustainable Project of the Year Award

On Saturday, 6th October, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential library, Green Home Builder Magazine‘s Stuart Cochrane and Nick Slevin, developers of

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ABC Green Home 3.0 Continues to Earn Recognition

ABC Green Home 3.0 has been recognized as ASCE-OC’s 2018 Sustainable Engineering Project of the Year

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Combating Veteran Homelessness with Homes 4 Families

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The Ever-Expanding Green Movement

From record improvements and cultural relevance in 2017, what will 2018 bring to the green movement? By Jason Forrest The

Architecture and Design In this issue New This Week

Redeveloping Brownfield Sites for Energy-Saving Advantages

Zoning for small cottage developments offers energy-efficient value for developers By KATHERINE AUSTIN There is a tremendous challenge we face

Industry Observations New This Week

More Innovation in Sustainable Homebuilding to Come in 2018

2018 will continue to ride the coattails of a strong sustainable 2017 By SERGIO FLORES Overall, the sentiment for U.S.

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The Carpet Industry Starts to Clean Up

By Jim Vallette These are revolutionary times in the carpet industry. Thanks to a confluence of rising consumer demands, new

Green Features New This Week Sustainable Design

First EcoSmart, ZeroEnergy Community in Austin, Texas

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Featured Interviews GHB Interviews In this issue

The GHB Interview: Rob Elliott

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In this issue New This Week

Who’s Who in Green Home Building for 2017

New This Week Smart Home Tech

Just How Far Did Smart Homes Take Off In 2017?

The highly successful launches of smart speakers like Amazon’s Echo and Google Home provide one harbinger of growth By GLENN

Architecture and Design New This Week

Sustainable Design Begins With American Made Products

2017 brought many great building products to choose from, but the best and most beneficial are always American made By

ABC Green Home New This Week

High-Performance, Net-Zero American Home Building: DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY, and CONSTRUCTION

By NICK SLEVIN The original Net-Zero, LEED ABC Green Home was built at the Great park in Irvine, Calif. in

New This Week Sustainable Design

Alliance Residential’s Culture is Sustainability

Winner of Green Home Builder magazine’s Developer of the Year, Alliance Residential remains ahead of the curve by taking a

New This Week Sustainable Solutions

Green Actions –2017 Encouraged Us To Act on Green and Sustainability

Increasingly, how a company conducts their business is an important factor in choosing to buy their product or service By

Looking Ahead New This Week

Year-End Residential Reflections

Policy, culture, and technology win big in the residential built environment for 2017 By DOMINIQUE HARGREAVES Photo Credit Natalia Knezevic

Feature New This Week

Insight Homes Disrupts the Marketplace

Delaware homebuilder Insight Homes is honored as Builder of the Year for honing their homebuilding craft by pushing the green

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Year-End Reflections for Green Homebuilding in 2017

2017 saw plenty of advances in green home building and design that demonstrate how powerful this ‘niche’ really is By