NBN Online for the week of March 20, 2006

Green Building Barrels Into the Mainstream Market

After several years of slow but steady growth across the country, the green home building movement — which applies innovative and environmentally sensitive construction techniques and products to reduce energy and water consumption and improve residential comfort and safety — is barreling into the mainstream, according to a survey of NAHB members in late January and early February by the association and McGraw Hill Construction.

Preliminary results released during NAHB’s Green Building Conference in Albuquerque, N.M. on March 12-14 showed that there was a 20% increase in 2005 among those in the home building community who are focusing their attention on green building issues and that their ranks are expected to increase by another 30% this year.

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NAHB Resources Available After Disasters in West, Midwest

As natural disaster struck parts of the West and Midwest earlier this month, NAHB members deployed association resources to reach out to their communities in the aftermath.

In less than a week’s time, 100 twisters touched down in five states from Oklahoma to Illinois and 840,000 acres of land were burned in Texas and New Mexico. Twenty-two were initially reported dead, thousands were evacuated from their homes and millions of dollars in property damage was sustained — $6 million dollars worth alone at one Kansas university.

Employees Wanted: NAHB Launches Online Career Center

  
With this issue of Nation’s Building News, NAHB is launching an online building industry-oriented career center that will provide members with a cost-effective recruiting solution that makes locating qualified candidates and advertising open positions faster and easier.

The career center can be found on:

• NAHB's Web site by visiting www.nahb.org/careers
• Nation’s Building News "NAHB Career Center" section. The career center is now a regular feature of Nation's Building News. 
  
  

The career center was created in collaboration with ConstructionJobs.com, a leading employment resource for the construction, design and building industries.

NAHB members will receive a 20% discount off of standard rates for job postings. For a complete listing of all rates on the NAHB career center, click here.

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