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Endowment Funds Affordable Healthy Housing Symposium
 The National Housing Endowment, the philanthropic arm of NAHB, will be funding a symposium creating affordable healthy housing that will be presented by the National Building Museum next year.
The symposium, “Building Affordable Healthy Housing,” will be presented in conjunction with the museum’s current major exhibition, “The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture,” which runs through June 3, 2007 in Washington, D.C.
“Building Affordable Healthy Housing” will be a one-day conference that will bring together business leaders, academicians, elected officials, NAHB, the NAHB Research Center and the environmental community to discuss how government, business and the nonprofit sectors can work together to achieve more sustainable and healthier affordable housing options for Americans, and point out how designing “green” and affordable housing are not mutually exclusive concepts.
The symposium will be conducted in May 2007.
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“The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture” exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. runs through June 3, 2007. |
| In addition to the on-site symposium, the museum will create an electronic publication featuring the ideas presented in the symposium. The illustrated publication will be available online free to NAHB members. Program participants will receive printed copies of the publication.
“The National Building Museum is proud of our continuing relationship with NAHB and the National Housing Endowment and happy for its support and the support of the National Housing Endowment in presenting this symposium,” said Chase Rynd, executive director of the museum. “We are very excited to work with the staff of the NAHB Research Center to give an industry voice to these proceedings.”
“The National Building Museum is our museum, dedicated to the building arts in all its forms,” said Gary Garczynski, endowment chairman and 2002 NAHB president. “We look forward to the benefits this program will bring to our industry.
“The endowment has been a long-time supporter of their efforts, most notably their Building America Web site, an online exhibition by the museum exploring the broad scope of U.S. achievement in architecture, design, engineering, construction, planning and landscape architecture,” he added.
The “Building Affordable Healthy Housing” symposium is not yet scheduled. For more information about “The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture” exhibit at the National Building Museum, or to register for other seminars related to the exhibit, visit the museum Web site at www.nbm.org.
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