NAHB APPLAUDS ANSI APPROVAL OF NATIONAL GREEN BUILDING STANDARD
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 --The National Green Building Standard for all residential construction work including single-family homes, apartments and condos, land development and remodeling and renovation was approved today by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
The approval signals a new era for the nation's builders, remodelers and developers and also provides an extra measure of reassurance for home buyers, said Joe Robson, a home builder in Tulsa, Okla., and Chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).
"The National Green Building Standard is now the first and only green building rating system approved by ANSI, making it the benchmark for green homes," said Ron Jones, who chaired the consensus committee charged with developing the standard.
"The standard provides home builders and remodelers with a much more expansive third-party rating system that they can use to achieve green certification under NAHBGreen and the National Green Building Certification Program," said Mike Luzier, CEO of the NAHB Research Center.
The Research Center provides certification for NAHBGreen projects, which until now have only included single-family homes. "Consumers are looking for authentic, verifiable green building practices, and now they'll find them with a true industry consensus standard for residential green building," Luzier said.
The standard defines what green practices can be incorporated into residential development and construction and how home owners can operate and maintain their green homes.
But the National Green Building Standard also provides for flexibility - allowing home builders and home buyers to make green choices based on climate and geography as well as style preferences and budget.
As part of the stringent process required by ANSI, NAHB and the International Code Council gathered a fully inclusive and representative consensus committee composed of a broad spectrum of builders, architects, product manufacturers, regulators and environmental experts. The work of the consensus committee was administered by the NAHB Research Center, an ANSI Accredited Standards Developer.
The consensus committee deliberated the content of the standard for more than a year, held four public hearings and evaluated over 3,000 public comments in the development of the standard.
ABOUT NAHB: The National Association of Home Builders is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association representing more than 200,000 members involved in home building, remodeling, multifamily construction, property management, subcontracting, design, housing finance, building product manufacturing and other aspects of residential and light commercial construction. Known as "the voice of the housing industry," NAHB is affiliated with more than 800 state and local home builders associations around the country. NAHB's builder members will construct about 80 percent of the new housing units projected for 2009.
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Friday, January 30, 2009
Monday, October 13, 2008
A Call to Arms
The Long Island Business Institute plans to be an active participant in the Town of Brookhaven’s Brookhaven 2030 charettes this weekend. If your life and/or livelihood is tied in any way to the future of Brookhaven you need to participate, as well. LIBI will host a meeting on Tuesday afternoon (5:30 pm) in the LIBI office to discuss specific issues and questions that will need to be asked of the charrette organizers.
THE RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY THE CHARETTE ORGANIZERS – IF ADOPTED BY THE BROOKHAVEN TOWN BOARD – WILL BE USED AS THE BASIS FOR ZONING CHANGES OVER THE NEXT SEVEN YEARS.
The concerns of the building community are the concerns of Long Island, quite frankly. Without more housing on the Island our companies will not be able to sustain themselves and be forced to leave. With them go the jobs that keep our economy working.
This issue is too important to leave to our elected officials to figure out on their own. Please be sure to attend the meeting at LIBI on Tuesday afternoon at 5:30 pm. Feel free to call me at the LIBI office if you have any questions – 631-232-2345.
THE RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY THE CHARETTE ORGANIZERS – IF ADOPTED BY THE BROOKHAVEN TOWN BOARD – WILL BE USED AS THE BASIS FOR ZONING CHANGES OVER THE NEXT SEVEN YEARS.
The concerns of the building community are the concerns of Long Island, quite frankly. Without more housing on the Island our companies will not be able to sustain themselves and be forced to leave. With them go the jobs that keep our economy working.
This issue is too important to leave to our elected officials to figure out on their own. Please be sure to attend the meeting at LIBI on Tuesday afternoon at 5:30 pm. Feel free to call me at the LIBI office if you have any questions – 631-232-2345.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Fantasy Land
Newly re-minted LIBI member Michael Dubb (http://www.beechwoodhomes.com/news-whoswho-mdubb-augsep-05.htm) spoke about a fantasy of his during a panel yesterday at Building Long Island (http://www.buildinglongisland.com/) magazine's annual "Cutting Through The Red Tape" breakfast symposium at the The Milleridge Cottage in Jericho.
He shared with the 200-strong audience that he has enough property to build 700 houses in the Town of Brookhaven but that he is holding off from doing so for the time being. He said his fantasy is that the Town of Brookhaven comes to him and says, "What can we do to get you to build those 700 homes?"
Given the financial hardships the Town is going through right now, as well as the region's well-documented shortage of affordable housing you would think Mr. Dubb's fantasy would be a no-brainer reality. But no, we live on Long Island where there is an unfortunate disconnect amongst our elected officials in that they do not understand the relationship between home construction and remodeling and a healthy economy. Instead of encouragement, our members get roadblocks and delays by way of onerous paperwork, expensive and inexplicable fees and seemingly endless placating of civic associations.
The elected officials on the panel - Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi (http://www.nassaucountyny.gov/agencies/CountyExecutive/Biography.html), Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy (http://www.co.suffolk.ny.us/departments/CountyExec.aspx) and Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto (http://www.oysterbaytown.com/) all talked a good game. Suozzi pushed his "Cool Downtowns" concept - and multi-residential dwellings in downtown areas near train stations are key to Long Island's future. Levy discussed his on-going efforts to bring fiscal sanity to Suffolk County - including his efforts to have light-duty officers run the Suffolk County Police Athletic League, a move that will save County taxpayers $400,000 according to the County Executive. And Venditto suggested that Oyster Bay is doing "quite well." Tell that to the LIBI member who has a significant amount of business stuck in the limbo of the building moratorium in Massapequa.
Oh well. LIBI will use this space to monitor the local municipalities and draw attention to situations and government policies that are detrimental to the building community and, by extenstion, the Long Island economy. Stay tuned.
He shared with the 200-strong audience that he has enough property to build 700 houses in the Town of Brookhaven but that he is holding off from doing so for the time being. He said his fantasy is that the Town of Brookhaven comes to him and says, "What can we do to get you to build those 700 homes?"
Given the financial hardships the Town is going through right now, as well as the region's well-documented shortage of affordable housing you would think Mr. Dubb's fantasy would be a no-brainer reality. But no, we live on Long Island where there is an unfortunate disconnect amongst our elected officials in that they do not understand the relationship between home construction and remodeling and a healthy economy. Instead of encouragement, our members get roadblocks and delays by way of onerous paperwork, expensive and inexplicable fees and seemingly endless placating of civic associations.
The elected officials on the panel - Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi (http://www.nassaucountyny.gov/agencies/CountyExecutive/Biography.html), Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy (http://www.co.suffolk.ny.us/departments/CountyExec.aspx) and Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto (http://www.oysterbaytown.com/) all talked a good game. Suozzi pushed his "Cool Downtowns" concept - and multi-residential dwellings in downtown areas near train stations are key to Long Island's future. Levy discussed his on-going efforts to bring fiscal sanity to Suffolk County - including his efforts to have light-duty officers run the Suffolk County Police Athletic League, a move that will save County taxpayers $400,000 according to the County Executive. And Venditto suggested that Oyster Bay is doing "quite well." Tell that to the LIBI member who has a significant amount of business stuck in the limbo of the building moratorium in Massapequa.
Oh well. LIBI will use this space to monitor the local municipalities and draw attention to situations and government policies that are detrimental to the building community and, by extenstion, the Long Island economy. Stay tuned.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
The LIBI Blog
The Long Island Builders Institute wants to keep its members up to speed on new developments in the building industry, as well as on top of new government initiatives and special events hosted by LIBI. We are also looking to expand our digital footprint.
That is why we have opted to start a daily blog. Executive Vice President Michael Watt will update the blog, on a daily basis and by 9 am if possible. The blogs will draw attention to relevant news from the morning's newspapers, upcoming special events and position statements on matters that call for LIBI to take a stand.LIBI encourages its members to post comments in response to the daily blog, as well as to suggest topics for future blogs. You can post your suggestions here or send me an email at mwatt@libi.org.
This is your Web site. Let's work together to make it the best it can be so we can make LIBI the best it can be. Also - be sure to check your information on the site, to make sure we have it posted correctly and to make sure it links to your Web site.
That is why we have opted to start a daily blog. Executive Vice President Michael Watt will update the blog, on a daily basis and by 9 am if possible. The blogs will draw attention to relevant news from the morning's newspapers, upcoming special events and position statements on matters that call for LIBI to take a stand.LIBI encourages its members to post comments in response to the daily blog, as well as to suggest topics for future blogs. You can post your suggestions here or send me an email at mwatt@libi.org.
This is your Web site. Let's work together to make it the best it can be so we can make LIBI the best it can be. Also - be sure to check your information on the site, to make sure we have it posted correctly and to make sure it links to your Web site.
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