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23 Aug
2010

Chicago to Welcome its First Prefab Green Home

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The Green Home Institute () announces an exciting new addition to its LEED Homes roster in Illinois: the first prefabricated “green” home to be built in Chicago, which will earn […]

19 Aug
2010

Double-Up Points in MR 2.2 with Reclaimed Materials

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The Materials and Resources (MR) credit 2.2 is one of the more challenging areas of LEED for Homes to get a handle on. First of all, the unique aspect in […]

11 Aug
2010

Two Affordable LEED Homes to be Built for Greenbuild

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Habitat for Humanity Lake County has teamed up with USGBC and Bank of America to build two LEED Platinum homes side-by-side as part of the Greenbuild 2010. The homes will […]

4 Aug
2010

LEED Midrise earns LEED Platinum

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This 4-story affordable housing development leveraged the development team’s quality building practices already in place, and with only minor modifications, allowed the team to earn LEED Platinum certification. In […]

3 Aug
2010

Builder pitches net-zero energy LEED homes

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Solar panels and wind turbines sold Meg Barrett and Doug Smit on the Prairie Ridge Estates development in New Lenox. “I would be an ambassador for this type of technology,” […]

2 Aug
2010

GreenBuild registration discounted until Sept 7

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We’re fortunate this year to have the world’s premiere conference and expo on green building coming to our backyard from November 17-19 at Chicago’s McCormick Place. Here are some of […]

28 Jul
2010

Frank Lloyd Wright home seeks LEED Certification

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A speculative home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that has fallen into disrepair will now be an intersection of historic preservation and green building, as Eifler and Associates embarks on a LEED for Homes rehabilitation in Glencoe, IL.

23 Jul
2010

Energy Star Homes to significantly change in 2011

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the Version 3 Guidelines for ENERGY STAR® Qualified New Homes. LEED for Homes is also planning a revision in 2012

15 Jul
2010

New LEED for Homes Pre-approved ID Point

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LEED for Homes project teams that sign up for USGBC’s Building Performance Partnership (BPP) are now eligible to earn an optional point in Innovation and Design (ID) point for “Utility Tracking”.

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