May 7, 2011 | Green Home Building/Remodeling, LEED Certification
The Minneapolis Star Tribune will be featuring our home, and my work on getting it LEED Certified, in the Sunday Homes section tomorrow, May 8, 2011. The reporter, Lynn Underwood, interviewed me for 3 ½ hours and made several follow-up calls to get the story right. ...
Feb 3, 2011 | Green Home Building/Remodeling, LEED Certification, Water
Since my last post on “Final LEED Meeting,” a few things have come to light that have delayed our pending certification. As a starting point, we were at 90 points, including the exemplary performance points for our irrigation system and efficient clothes...
Feb 2, 2011 | Energy & Water, Green Home Building/Remodeling, Green Home Living, LEED Certification, Water
As I am scrounging around for another few points to hit the Gold level threshold for our soon-t0-be LEED Certified home, I am advised to do an easy thing, that is worth two points: install aerators in all of our sink faucets (except the kitchen sink). Aerators lower...
Dec 14, 2010 | Green Home Building/Remodeling, LEED Certification
One week ago today, I took the LEED for Green Associates and LEED AP Homes exam. About 15 seconds after I ended the exam, the computer screen changed and gave me my results. As the title of this post suggests, I passed! I have not been able to write about it yet...
Dec 6, 2010 | Green Home Building/Remodeling, LEED Certification
Tomorrow, December 7, 2010, I am scheduled to take the LEED for Homes exam. Right now I am taking a break from studying by writing about studying. (It actually is a break!) The exam will be two parts: each two hours and each 100 multiple choice questions, given at ...
Dec 1, 2010 | Green Home Building/Remodeling, LEED Certification
Last week, I met with our LEED for Homes Provider–Pat O’Malley of Building Knowledge, Inc.–and our Green Rater (Jimmie Sparks from the Neighborhood Energy Connection) to have a FINAL LEED MEETING. Pat asked me my goal: to give everything to him so...
Nov 21, 2010 | Green Home Building/Remodeling, LEED Certification
We are going for one additional point through the Credit Interpretation Request process. This Credit Interpretation Request follows the format required for LEED for Homes: Credit Interpretation Request Relevant credit: AE 1.3 Public Awareness LEED-H Version #: pilot...
Nov 21, 2010 | Green Home Building/Remodeling, LEED Certification
This is my official “Innovative Design Request” for an additional point for our irrigation well. It follows the required structure of all LEED for Homes credits: Innovation and Design Credit Request Relevant category: Water Efficiency LEED-H Version #:...
Nov 19, 2010 | Green Home Building/Remodeling, LEED Certification
For “Innovative Design,” I had a long list of possibilities of what we thought might be worthy of extra consideration. Let’s revisit my original list with the filter or knowing what has/not been rewarded already in the LEED credit system:...
Nov 11, 2010 | Green Home Building/Remodeling, LEED Certification
As I have finished tallying up the points of all of the sub-sections in LEED for Homes, we can now go back to Innovation & Design Process to see if we can earn any more points. I had written about this possibility in an earlier post as a place to come back to in...
Nov 10, 2010 | Green Home Building/Remodeling, LEED Certification
Hooray! This is the LAST credit in the LAST section of the entire LEED for Homes Reference Manual. (I should qualify this: there is one more section – AE 2: Education of Building Manager. But it only applies to multifamily buildings with more than five units,...
Nov 9, 2010 | Green Home Building/Remodeling, LEED Certification
In addition to the training provided in the prerequisite (see previous post), we can get one point if we are provided with two hours of training. Examples include an additional walk-through, training held in another home that has s imilar green measures and...
