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Green Home Builders of the Triangle
A joint program of the
HBA of Durham, Orange, & Chatham Counties
and the HBA of Raleigh-Wake County
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Click the following links to go directly to the information you need:
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Looking for a green builder or supplier?
Or are you an industry professional interested in joining GHBT?
Click here for our member list or information on joining.
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Want to buy or build a certified home?
Check out the gallery of certified homes for examples.
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Click here for information on the homes & builders in our annual Green Home Tour.
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Want to gain visibility for your support of green building through a 2010 GHBT sponsorship? Click here.
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Click here to read our FAQs!
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Click here if you want to certify a home.
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L-R in top row: Builders Chad Ray, Dave Kurtz and Kent Wiles talk with tour attendees about
green building technologies and materials during one of our Green Home Tours.
We're Bringing Green to the Mainstream!
Our green building program was launched in 2006 with the primary purpose of promoting building techniques and materials that produce homes which consume less energy and other resources, facilitate better indoor air quality, and provide a more durable product requiring less maintenance. Click here to learn more about the GHBT members and leadership team. If you are an industry professional interested in green building, please join us! Click here for the program application.
Since November of 2006, we have been actively promoting green building in the Triangle through our annual Green Home Tour and a wide variety of green building educational programs. In addition, we have been operating a 3rd-party-verified certification program that was initially based on the Model Green Home Building Guidelines issued by the National Association of Home Builders. In early 2010, our program adopted the National Green Building Standard (NGBS) as its basis for certification. The NGBS is a consensus-based industry standard that provides the requirements for four levels of certification: bronze, silver, gold, and emerald.
In order to achieve a GHBT certificate for a home, a builder has been required to enroll the home in our program, complete a scoresheet to show that sufficient goals are being met in each of the program areas, include those components during construction, and work with a third-party verifier who checks to ensure that adequate goals have been met. Click here to learn about the homes that have been enrolled and certified in our program.
In September of 2010, the GHBT program will stop taking new certification enrollments and will encourage builders to use the NAHBGreen certification program, with which GHBT is affiliated. The NAHBGreen certification program is also based on the NGBS, so the basis for certification will remain the same as under the GHBT certification program.
Click here to find out more or call Leigh Scott, Director of Green Building Programs, at 919-493-8899.
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