All Posts Tagged With: "LEED-H"

LEED-H Works at Affordable Morrisania Homes in the Bronx

The February issue of Affordable Housing Finance magazine has a detailed article about the Morrisania Homes, certified Silver under the new LEED for Homes (”LEED-H”) standard. As gbNYC reported back in August, Morrisania is the first community in New York State certified under LEED-H. Made up of twenty-eight townhouses, the community’s developer, Blue Sea Development Company, signed on to use LEED for Homes during the standard’s Pilot Program phase (which is now closed). The project also checked in at #3 on gbNYC’s list of the top 5 New York City green buildings from 2007.

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7Feb2008 | Meredith Taylor | 1 comment | Continued

Location of HGTV’s Green Dream Home 2008 Revealed: Tradition Hilton Head, SC

Last week, HGTV revealed that the location of its Green Home Giveaway, which one lucky viewer will win in 2008, is Tradition Hilton Head, South Carolina, a 5,300-acre planned community that sits between Savannah, Georgia and Hilton Head Island. Designed as a traditional South Carolina Low Country cottage, the 2,000-square-foot, 3-bedroom and 2.5-bath Green Home […]

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28Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 12 comments | Continued

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

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