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Habitat for Humanity Earns LEED Certification for Ninth Home in Grand Rapids, Michigan Area
For a Grand Rapids, Michigan family, this Christmas was particularly special as it moved into a $110,000 LEED-certified home built by Habitat for Humanity and sponsored by Spartan Stores. The home is the ninth for which Habitat’s Kent County chapter has received a LEED rating (including one Platinum and two Gold) under USGBC’s LEED for […]
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27Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Green Prefab in the Catskills: Alta Log Home, Fleischmanns, New York
USGBC’s LEED for Homes (“LEED-H”) Pilot Program is now closed; the organization’s constituents voted on its final approval during a period that ended a few weeks ago, and the system’s formal introduction should be forthcoming shortly. Three projects in New York State earned certification from USGBC under the Pilot Program, and we’ve presented two of […]
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13Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Green Meets Arts & Crafts: Windermere on the Lake
A planned residential community isn’t necessarily the first place you might look to try and find the intersection of design excellence and sustainability, but a new development in suburban Connecticut might help to change your tune. When it’s complete, Windermere on the Lake will offer twenty-four luxury homes across seventy-five acres in North Stamford. Developed […]
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23Nov2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
The Green Scene*: Special Report from USGBC’s Greenbuild Chicago 2007
*Paul McGinniss, whose Upstate New York Green Real Estate Report is a regular feature here at gbNYC, was at Greenbuild last week and checks in with this special report about the happenings in Chicago.
Over 20,000 people gathered in Chicago this past week for USGBC’s Greenbuild Expo 2007. I was lucky enough to be invited by ScheinMedia, […]
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12Nov2007 | Paul McGinniss | 2 comments | Continued
Morrisania Homes in The Bronx Earn NY’s First Affordable Housing LEED-H Rating
The Morrisania Homes, a sixty-four unit development in the South Bronx that includes sixteen three-family and eight two-family homes, just became New York’s first affordable housing project to receive certification under USGBC’s LEED for Homes (”LEED-H”) Pilot Program (which should launch formally sometime this fall) and the first LEED-H Certified residences in New York City. […]
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15Aug2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
June Upstate New York Green Real Estate Report- SUNY Ulster’s Kingston Green Home Tour*
Stephen thought I might be writing about Syracuse this month and picking up where he left off with his post on May 21st about New York State’s first LEED-H Gold project in Syracuse. I do want to get to Syracuse and will soon.
And I will surely get to Rochester too. I was lucky enough to […]
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22Jun2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Syracuse Prof’s Skaneateles Home Earns New York’s First LEED-H Gold Rating
At the risk of stealing some of Paul’s thunder for next month’s Upstate New York Green Real Estate Report, the LEED-H Pilot Program has certified its fourth Gold-rated home in the country and the first here in New York State, just outside Syracuse in the town of Skaneateles.
Elet Sangrey Callahan, a professor at the Syracuse […]
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21May2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 3 comments | Continued
BD+C WebCast: “No Brainers” For Your Next Green Project + LEED Update
On Thursday, March 29, at 2PM EST, Building Design + Construction Editor-in-Chief Robert Cassidy will moderate “No Brainers” for Your Next Green Project, a panel discussing new green technologies and indispensable design elements for every green project. Cassidy will be joined by Alan Whitson of the Corporate Realty, Design & Management Institute in Portland, Oregon […]
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NYC’s Affordable Housing Developers May Face Renewed Battle Over Green Building Mandate
An interesting item appeared in this week’s print edition of Crain’s New York Business. The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (“HPD”) is apparently considering the use of the Enterprise Community Partners’ Green Communities rating system in connection with affordable housing development here in New York. Crain’s reports that HPD Commissioner Shaun […]
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BASF Earns LEED-H Platinum For Near-Zero Energy Home in Paterson, NJ
BASF has been developing its Near-Zero Energy Home in Paterson, New Jersey (just a few miles from where I grew up, image of the finished house to the left) since it was selected by USGBC to participate in the LEED-H pilot program back in 2005. Last week, on January 24, the house became […]
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Green Building Consultant Jerry Yudelson Peers Into 2007 Green Building Crystal Ball
Former USGBC board member, current chairman of Greenbuild, and author of Marketing Green Buildings and Developing Green, Jerry Yudelson, offers some 2007 green building predictions in the latest edition of Consulting-Specifying Engineer. (Image used with permission of Cristalier.com).
First, Yudelson believes that by the end of 2007, the cumulative number of LEED certifications will exceed […]
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26Jan2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
More on Earthaven: A LEED-H Pilot Program Project
I’d posted last week about a Poughkeepsie-area home which has been accepted into the LEED for Homes Pilot Program, and I wanted to follow up by directing you to a web log that the home’s owners are maintaining as they continue construction on their new house. Thanks for the comment (and the link), Lisa, and […]
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5Jan2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Poughkeepsie-Area Home Accepted into LEED-H Pilot Program
A 3,100 square foot house in the Village of Tivoli, New York, has been accepted by USGBC into its LEED for Homes (”LEED-H”) Pilot Program. Lisa and George Fishler of Poughkeepsie have designed the house to have a “combination Japanese and prairie look.” Green features include low VOC materials, recycled wood, and a passive solar […]
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31Dec2006 | Stephen Del Percio | 3 comments | Continued-
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