If you are considering building a new home, this is a great time to incorporate energy efficient and sustainable concepts into the design process. By doing this early, the costs will be easier to absorb into the plan and maximum benefits and payback will be realized. If you want to improve or remodel your existing home, you can also take advantage of some of these exciting concepts and products.
Here are some links to new construction related sites:
Green Eco Communities - new website devoted to making it easy to navigate through green communities, villages and towns throughout the U.S.
REAL Building, Green Builders and Developers in the Tampa Bay Area
U.S. Green Building Council -The U.S. Green Building Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings available to everyone within a generation.
Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council
Free Download of National Association Of Homebuilder’s Model Green Home Building Guidelines. NAHB’s voluntary Model Green Home Building Guidelines are designed to be a tool kit for the individual builder looking to engage in green building practices and home builder associations (HBAs) looking to launch their own local green building programs. Since their debut in 2005, the Guidelines have helped move environmentally friendly home building concepts further into the mainstream marketplace.
Heather’s Home -The mission of “Heather’s Home” was to build a High Performance Home that Heather (and the average American family) could afford. Heather wanted to see just how far she could stretch her modest budget to include as many energy-efficient, sustainable components as possible. Like so many, she had the passion for green construction, but not bottomless pockets. Teaming up with GGOArchitects, Building America and Building Science, the team set out to create a home that would be near zero-energy, incorporate as many sustainable features as Heather’s budget would allow, and to use the home as an educational project to show America that indeed green could indeed be affordable.
Green Developments in Central Florida:
Glencairn Cottages in Dunedin. Tampa Bay’s First all-green community. Florida Green Building Coalition Certified.
