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The board of directors of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)
has recently approved the creation of a national green building program
to provide a template for voluntary, market-driven green building all
over the USA.
 According to the organization’s press release, the new program takes
into account a home’s lot development, use of resources, energy and water
efficiency, indoor environmental quality, durability and ease of maintenance,
as well as the builder’s efforts to educate home owners. It will be based on
the National Green Building Standard, a model for residential construction and
renovation written by builders, architects, environmentalists and product experts that will be released in early 2008, and will include an interactive,
web-based certification system, as well as other tools and resources for
builders and certifiers. A national registry of green builders and green homes
will also be a part of it. The standards process is certified by the American
National Standards Institute.
“It’s the next logical step for NAHB as a leader in the green building
movement. Our members have built nearly 100,000 green homes in voluntary programs
launched by home building associations all over the country. Each of these
homes is unique and responds to local geography, climate and consumer
preferences. With an affordable national program, we will
provide home buyers with green homes even where there is no local program in
place”, said NAHB President Brian Catalde Catalde.
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