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Certified green returnFlynner Building Company builds certified green homes and provides third party certification at no cost. We save our clients thousands of dollars in energy costs and we prove it. In the past, we could offer certified green construction at no …
Proven performance in a certified green homeIn the summer of 2010, Flynner Building Company built a certified green home for a new homeowner. We interviewed him recently about the experience and the home's performance. This is a case study on that project.The homeowner selected Flynner …
Energy Star version transitionVersion 2 (old version) can only be used on homes permitted before April 1, 2011 and completed before 2012. This required a HERS score of 85 or less for the southern climates and 80 or less for some northern climates. It included a third party …
So, what do green building programs focus on?When asking what green building programs focus on, the short answer but that is open to too much interpretation is sustainability. The other thing commonly heard is that it is a holistic approach to construction. It looks into the interaction of …
What is a HERS score?HERS stands for Home Energy Rating System. Most all builders are pledging to get all their homes HERS rated. A HERS score of 100 is a home built to the minimum 2006 IEEC building code. A HERS score of 0 is a net zero energy home. You can get to a …
Why should you consider a certified green home?The green certification programs such as LEED and NAHB Green have developed strong systems to ensure a well rounded higher quality home. LEED aims for the higher end green homes. The USGBC (LEED) has greater requirements for certification personnel …
How do I know how efficient my new green home is? As many of the readers know there has been a tremendous boom in green building programs and eco-friendly construction. Depending on the region where you live, you might have three or more programs that are administer by different organization. For …
Rigid foam insulation boards, are they all the same?It is often that I am asked if rigid foam boards are the same, it does not matter if it's a builder client that I am working with to get a house certified under an energy efficiency program such as Energy Star, or a green building program such as …
Ask the Expert: How do I make an existing home green?ProudGreenHome: What are easy ways to retrofit an existing home to include green features? Ted Clifton: One of the big problems with many green building programs, including LEED for Homes, is that it's not about adding green features to an existing …
Ask The Expert: Is it more expensive to build green?ProudGreenHome: Is it more expensive to build green? Lois Vitt Sale: My answer is no, it doesn't have to be. In a book by Greg Kats, "Greening Our Built World," 170 LEED-certified buildings were studied against a data base of similar buildings. The …
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