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NAHB Honors the Year’s Best in Green Home Building
Home building industry leaders honored the best in green residential design and outstanding advocacy efforts at the NAHB National Green Building Awards, which were presented on May 8 during the association’s 11th annual National Green Building Conference in Dallas.
Don Ferrier of Ferrier Custom Homes in Fort Worth, who was honored as the 2007 Green Builder Advocate of the Year, served as the master of ceremonies.
In a challenging year for the home building industry, with housing starts dropping to record lows in a sputtering economy, green homes have represented “hope and the future, and the future is green home building,” Ferrier said. “The ladies and gentlemen we honor this evening understand that. These awards honor their leadership and their practical example to others in the industry.”
The winners were:
- Concept Home of the Year: CVH Inc. Tight insulation and other energy-efficient features enabled the owners of the home in Coupeville, Wash. to spent just $76 on electricity in their first month of residency. That was before the builder installed photovoltaic panels on the rooftop that will enable the home to generate more energy than its consumers, Ferrier said.
- Affordable Home of the Year: Imagine Homes, San Antonio. Noted for its cost-effective techniques to attract first-time buyers, the company won this award for the second year in a row.
- Luxury Home of the Year: Solaire Homebuilders of Bend, Ore. With beautiful interior finishes, this custom home was built with reclaimed and recycled materials and designed to be 60% more energy efficient than required by code.
- Production Home of the Year: Celebrate by Del Webb, an active-adult community in Fredericksburg, Va., is taking green features to a larger scale and now certifying the homes in this new development to the National Green Building Standard.
- Single-family Remodeling Project of the Year: Honors went to Red-B Construction for a Durham, N.C. home for its striking design and extensive use of deconstruction techniques that improve its resource efficiency.
- Multifamily Remodeling Project of the Year: Hardwick G. C. Inc. of Orlando turned an early 20th-century bungalow into a charming duplex that has a rainwater harvesting system, native landscaping and other water-efficient features.
- Multifamily Rental Project of the Year: Tonti Properties’ 270-unit community in Frisco, Texas is the first Energy Star-certified development in the region. The company created an on-site tree farm during construction to enable landscapers to replant trees moved during the building process.
- Condominium Project of the Year: Onion Flats LLC of Philadelphia created an eight-unit infill project in the Northern Liberties neighborhood featuring slick, modern design, solar panels, green roofs and great city views.
- Townhouse Project of the Year: Asdal Builders LLC was honored for a New Jersey rental development that caters to senior citizens and focuses on sustainable, low-maintenance design and cost-effective geothermal heating.
- Development of the Year: The community of Woodlands Edge in Little Rock, Ark., developed by Rocket Properties LLC has nature trails, wildlife preservation areas and an extensive education program for its residents focused on environmental stewardship of the grounds.
- Build San Antonio Green and the Missoula (Mont.) Building Industry Association were honored as the Local Green Home Building Programs of the year, while the city of Chicago was named Governmental Advocate of the Year for its extensive voluntary energy-efficiency improvement programs and for encouraging green roofs on high-rise buildings.
- EcoBroker International won Group Advocate of the Year honors for its green building education efforts among real estate brokers.
- Donna Shirey, a longtime NAHB Remodelers leader and green-building professional from Seattle, was honored as Remodeling Advocate of the Year.
- Architect Michelle Kaufmann, known for her groundbreaking green and modular design, was named Individual Advocate of the Year.
- John Freer, a longtime Missoula Building Industry Association leader and founder of the association’s green building council, was honored as NAHB Green Builder Advocate of the Year.
For more information, e-mail Calli Schmidt at NAHB, or call her at 800-368-5242 x8132.
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