Jul 8, 2010 | Green Home Building/Remodeling, LEED Certification
Here is where the United States Green Building Council rewards itself. You get a point toward certification if you have on your project team “a professional who is credentialed with respect to LEED for Homes as determined by the U.S. Green Building...
Jul 7, 2010 | LEED Certification
This is the first point available in the LEED for Homes Rating system. We already had to have our meeting, as a prerequisite. For one point, though, we need to have an Integrated Project Team. We’ve got that, I think. Wait: that team needs to actually have...
Jul 6, 2010 | LEED Certification
This is the first prerequisite in the first category of the LEED for Homes rating system. The intent for Integrated Project Planning is: Maximize opportunities for integrated, cost-effective adoption of green design and construction strategies. This seems pretty...
Jul 6, 2010 | LEED Certification
Getting ready to start posting one blog for each of the “35 subcategories” of the LEED for Homes Rating System, I need to make a few clarifications of how I am going to go about doing this. First, within each subcategory, there are between one and five...
May 31, 2010 | Green Home Building/Remodeling, LEED Certification
In my last entry, I committed to writing about each of the 35 sub-categories that I need to fill out in order to get points. Here is the framework. Everything revolves around the LEED Checklist. Within each of the eight sections of the checklist, you can gather a...
May 17, 2010 | Green Home Building/Remodeling, LEED Certification
One of the hardest things about doing something like getting a home LEED Certified is getting started. Back in 2008, we registered the project with the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), found a LEED for Homes Provider and a “Green Rater”, who would be...
Mar 8, 2010 | Green Home Building/Remodeling, LEED Certification
one step at a time When we set out to build our home, we wanted to go for LEED Certification, which is the United States Green Building Council’s seal of approval that a home has been built to their standards and verified by a third party. Personally, I wanted...
