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Building Green Homes
 

Generally speaking building "green" is the efficient use of our resources to create healthier homes, protect the environment and provide long term cost savings.

What Makes a Home Green?

A green home is designed, built, renovated, operated, or reused in an ecological and resource-efficient manner. Green homes are designed to meet certain objectives such as protecting occupant health; improving productivity; using energy, water, and other resources more efficiently; and reducing the overall impact to the environment.

What Are the Economic Benefits of Green Homes?

A green home may cost more up front, but save money long term through lower operating and utility costs over the life of the home. To take advantage of this, home builders need to incorporate the objectives at the start of the design process to ensure maximum potential for savings.

Some benefits, such as improving occupant health, comfort, productivity, reducing pollution and landfill waste are not easily quantified. Consequently, they are not adequately considered in cost analysis. For this reason, consider setting aside a small portion of the building budget to cover differential costs associated with less tangible green building benefits or to cover the cost of researching and analyzing green building options.

Even with a tight budget, many green home measures can be incorporated with minimal or zero increased up-front costs and they can yield enormous savings (Environmental Building News, 1999).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
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