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Desiderio Named Research Center’s Green Building Director
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Michelle Desiderio | Seasoned green building professional Michelle Desiderio has joined the management team of the NAHB Research Center as its director of green building programs.
“We are excited to add Michelle to our green building team,” said Michael Luzier, president of the NAHB Research Center.
“She is a seasoned industry professional with a wealth of experience in the environmental arena,” Luzier said. “She is exactly the right person to have at the helm of our National Green Building Certification program, especially now as so many opportunities have been created for builder, remodeler, developer and manufacturer participation with the ANSI approval earlier this year of the National Green Building Standard.”
Just prior to joining the NAHB Research Center, Desiderio was a planner with the National Capital Planning Commission, where her efforts led to the collaboration of more than 100 federal and local leaders at a two-day forum to develop comprehensive flood mitigation measures for downtown Washington, D.C.
Desiderio previously managed Fannie Mae's Housing and Environment Initiative, which promoted housing affordability through energy- and location-efficient homes.
At Fannie Mae, she developed the Smart Commute Mortgage and revamped the Energy Efficient Mortgage to promote green housing homeownership. In addition, she developed a patent-winning methodology to calculate the emissions reductions from energy-efficient homes so they could be sold as energy credits on emerging carbon markets.
As assistant staff vice president for NAHB, Desiderio represented the home building industry on legislative and regulatory policy issues regarding endangered species, air quality and solid waste management. She also wrote “The Developer’s Guide to Endangered Species Regulation,” which remains a definitive resource on ESA policy and regulation for the residential development industry.
Since February 2008, the NAHB Research Center has been administering the National Green Building Certification, using the NAHB Model Green Home Building Guidelines as its scoring platform.
The option to have a project scored to the National Green Building Standard became available when the standard was approved by ANSI this January.
For more information on National Green Building Certification and the National Green Building Standard, visit the NAHBGreen Web site.
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