UPPER MARLBORO, MD, February 5, 2009 – The nation’s first consensus-driven standard for residential green building has been approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The ICC ...

A series of five Saturday workshops for home builders and contractors on green building begins today on the Xavier University campus and continues through May 8. Offered by the Louisiana Chapter of ...

Thanks for mentioning green home construction in your recent article about energy independence (“9 ways YOU can achieve energy independence,” July 5). As chairperson of the Green Building Council of ...

"Green building is arguably the most exciting and significant development in home building in the past three decades," said NAHB president Bobby Rayburn, who is a home builder in Jackson, Miss. "Once ...

Preliminary results of a McGraw-Hill Construction/National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) survey have indicated that there has been a 20 percent increase in 2005 among those in the home building ...

At first, Baldwin Homes didn't build green. Then it dipped its corporate toe in -- one home here, another there. Now the Gambrills company is constructing an entire green neighborhood. It's the story ...

Q: We’ve been shopping for homes, and a few we’ve looked at were 5-star Built Green certified. We were curious what that really means and if it’s worth considering when choosing a home. Can you help?

From the outside, the home blends with others in the new Bettendorf neighborhood: a two-story, vinyl-sided house with an eye-catching slope to the roofline above the front door. Inside, though, ...

LOS ANGELES — Robert Mechielsen’s designs for environmentally friendly homes often include cutting edge features such as high-efficiency heating and cooling systems and solar panels to convert ...

WASHINGTON — The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) will honor excellence in green residential design and construction practices and outstanding green advocacy efforts with the 2009 NAHB ...

Find out more about our Reverse Course series here. Black-billed magpies and pine siskins sing on the banks of an acequia — a traditional irrigation ditch — that flows through Valverde Commons, a ...