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Groups working to lower housing costs through clean energy

Groups working to lower housing costs through clean energy The Local Energy Alliance Program (LEAP) and Community Climate Collaborative (C3)

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In this issue News 

The Nexus Between Title 24 and the Modular Housing Market

California, covid-19, housing market, title 24

Off-Site construction (OSC) is a global trend that addresses housing shortages, rising costs, and quality By YING WANG and BRENT

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Carl Seville talks about why it makes "cents" to have a green certification.
Feature In this issue News 

Why It Makes “Cents” to Consider Green Certification For Projects

environment, green building, green certification, millennials

Financial benefits of green building you need to know about BY CARL SEVILLE Decisions made in the planning and development

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Feature In this issue News 

Homebuyers Seek Spacious, Connected Communities

buyers, covid-19, design, market reserach

Current conditions are driving homebuyers to seek greener, more flexible, high-performing designs  By ALEX MCLEOD Similar to generations before, people—in

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Architecture and Design Feature In this issue New This Week News Sustainable Design 

Curb Appeal Can Be Affordable

What research says about curb appeal and qualities of outdoor spaces that attract home buyers By CASSY AOYAGI Passionate about

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New This Week News Sustainable Design 

College team builds net zero electric home for international competition

Donated by the city of Ogden, Utah, students from Weber State University built an all electric, net zero energy home

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New This Week News 

USGBC New York Upstate presents a webinar series on LEED

The “Deep Dive into LEED” schedule for June comprises 12 sessions. Are you interested in attaining a deeper knowledge of

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New This Week News 

USGBC-LA Launches ‘HEALTHY BUILDING ALLIANCE’ Just as COVID-19 Highlights the Importance of Healthy Buildings

The Alliance is a Commitment to Air & Water Quality, Green Space LOS ANGELES (May 28, 2020)  The U.S. Green Building

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New This Week News 

KB Home Announces Energy Efficient Cactus Landings Is Now Open for Sales in Popular Southwest Las Vegas

Homebuilder offers personalized new homes near the highly desirable Mountain’s Edge Master Plan, affordably priced from the $290,000s LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS

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New This Week News 

U.S. Green Building Council Launches Global Economic Recovery Strategy

USGBC outlines path for how healthy places and LEED will support recovery efforts as businesses, governments and communities prepare for

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ABC Green Home New This Week News Sustainable Design 

Earth Day Observations from Builder.Media and The ABC Green Home Project

Newport Beach, California (April 22, 2020) — With COVID-19 uppermost in people’s minds, we would like to share our own

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ABC Green Home New This Week News 

ABC Green Home 4.0: Promise with Performance

By Burke Boydell When it comes to outstanding achievement in sustainability for new residential developments, the ABC Green Home Project

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USGBC-LA NZ
New This Week News Sustainable Solutions 

USGBC-LA Launches 2nd Cohort of ‘Net Zero Accelerator’ to Speed Viable Building Tech’s Move into the Market for a Net Positive Future

Applications Now Being Accepted: April 2 – May 18 LOS ANGELES (April 2, 2020) The U.S. Green Building Council-Los Angeles

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New This Week News 

Message from our Publisher and Editor-In-Chief, Nick Slevin

Folks, Our thoughts are with all of our readers across the USA and the many challenges and struggles this situation is bringing. We are sensitive

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New This Week News 

Enphase Energy and Petersen-Dean Partner to Deliver World-Class Solar and Storage Solutions for New Homes

FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 21, 2019 – Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENPH), a global energy technology company and the world’s leading supplier of solar

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Natalie Leonard column cover photo
Construction Management In this issue New This Week News Sustainable Design Sustainable Solutions 

Design & Build for Maximum Efficiency

Passive House Net-Zero Design is one way to strike the right balance for maximum energy savings By NATALIE LEONARD From

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Building Codes In this issue New This Week News 

Pushing Sustainability in 2020

Cities like Santa Monica are changing the way they design, develop, and build to reduce the built environment’s carbon footprint

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Cover photo for Standards 2020
Building Codes In this issue New This Week News Sustainable Design 

Standards for 2020

Title 24 standards have evolved over the decades. How will they come into play in 2020? By MANNY GONZALEZ The

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New This Week News 

High-Performance Building Practices Prevalent in the Residential Homebuilding Market

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 21- Homebuilders across the country are prioritizing high-performance building practices in their projects, regardless if they consider

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News 

Propane Kitchen Appliances with Culinary Appeal

Give your homeowner customers more with propane performance By Bryan Cordill Appliances are the heartbeat of the kitchen. And by

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Green Features New This Week News 

Innovation Partner Added to DOE’s Sustainable Home Program

Ultra-Aire Whole House Ventilating Dehumidifiers has announced its participation in the Department of Energy (DOE) Zero Energy Ready Home™ program

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New This Week News Sustainable Solutions 

AMLI Ponce Park Becomes the First Multifamily Development in Atlanta to Receive Fitwel Certification from the Center for Active Design

ATLANTA – October 17, 2018 — AMLI Residential, a leading developer of sustainable, multifamily rental properties, today announced its AMLI Ponce

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Feature News Smart Home Tech 

Amazon Takes on Smart Homes; Invests in Prefab Home Builder

The Seattle-based online retailer giant Amazon announced this week that it is taking stake in Plant Prefab, a Southern California-based

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New This Week News 

De Young Properties & ConSol Announce Largest Single-Family Zero Net Energy Community in California

Zero Net Energy partners De Young Properties and ConSol plan to educate and energize homebuilders to stay ahead of state

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News 

Two amazing prefabricated Sonoma County homes featured in ‘Prefabulous Small Houses’

Author Sheri Koones believes that prefab houses are the homes of the future, or “prefabulous,” as she calls them. She’s

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News 

Desert Rain House gets Living Building Challenge Certification

The Living Building Challenge is one tough building standard, probably the toughest in the world. There have not been a

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News 

Pushing Urban Density: The Answer to Global Warming?

Vancouver, Canada’s largest west coast city, is rethinking the way it handles urban density. For years, the metropolitan area benefited

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News 

How A Simple Idea Could Help Cool Urban Habitats Of The Future

Based on United Nations estimates, the global population is growing by 1.18 per cent annually or an additional increase of

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News 

DOE Pick Perry Backs Energy-Efficient Building Codes

Newly inaugurated President Donald Trump selected Rick Perry to run the Department of Energy (DOE). Last week, Perry testified in

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News 

Mike Holmes: Building and renovating homes that are more energy efficient

Building for the future means building homes that are sustainable and rely on renewable sources of energy. For many homeowners,

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News 

A Silicon Valley engineer is on a quest to green the world by making buildings smarter

Seven years ago, Mark Chung took a three-week vacation. When he came home, his electricity bill looked more than a

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News 

Free Resource Helps Small Co-ops and Condos Save Big on Energy

The energy-saving and cost-cutting campaigns of many large co-ops and condos are getting a boost from the city’s Retrofit Accelerator

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News 

Paving the Way for an Efficient Light Bulb in Every Socket

The U.S. Department of Energy has just updated and expanded its definition of what constitutes an everyday light bulb in

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