Keyword: green building
Home improvement – when the one green aisle isn’t enough, TreeHouse is the answer
TreeHouse offers 26,000 sf of green products As environmental awareness becomes mainstream and less of a trend belonging to the elitists on the coasts, consumers are struggling to find home products that are considered green. Go into any big box home improvement store and find the green section, it’s typically an afterthought and placed awkwardly. Not at TreeHouse in Austin ...
Appraisal institute to officially recognize green features
Can I get an Amen? I’ll even settle for a WOOT from all you agnostics. Recently, the Appraisal Institute released this statement about the creation of an optional green features evaluation addendum to Fannie Mae Form 1004 which is the appraisal form used by appraisers for Fannie, Freddie, and FHA. As noted in the release, the contributory value of green ...
Windows that are actually solar panels make perfect sense
Windows as solar panels It’s no longer a Utopian dream to have net zero buildings and homes, as technology has rapidly advanced and is becoming much more affordable as demand increases. Over the last year, Pythagoras Energy has signed deals with manufacturers including Arkema, China Sunergy and Flextronics in order to get the new technology to market as quickly as ...
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“Over Greening” is There Such a Thing?
HUH? “Over Greening” is a phrase I am publicly coining today. Not even Urban Dictionary has a pithy or perverse definition for this phrase and alas it’s up to me to bring it to the masses. It’s meant to be a play on the more well known Real Estate phrase “Over Improving.” As in, this home is over improved considering ...
Top 25 Cities With the Most Energy Efficient Buildings
Energy Star rated buildings This week, the Environmental Protection Agency published their list of cities with the most Energy Star labeled buildings with the South accounting for 40% of the Top 10. The EPA noted that all of the buildings that won the Energy Star rating last year saved on carbon dioxide emissions by more than 4.7 million metric tons ...
Green Bunker Home – Inventive and Sexy Modern Architecture
Bunker homes don’t have to be 1960′s shaggy Make Architects is working on getting permits in the United Kingdom for the first zero-carbon underground home (aka bunker) for British soccer superstar Gary Neville. The home blends into the earth and is a one story, 8,000sf designed with the client’s enthusiasm for green building in mind. All building materials for this ...
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