A Dominant Force in Homebuilding
Green Builder Profile: TRI Pointe Homes Comprised of six premium brands, TRI Pointe Group is a force in the homebuilding industry. Quadrant Homes, TRI Pointe Homes, Pardee Homes, Maracay Homes, Trendmaker Homes, and Winchester Homes all fall under the TRI Pointe Group umbrella. Together, they build nationally, dominating hot markets...
The ABC Green Home 4.0 Designed in BIM
The project’s design team collaborate online to create and engineer another Net-Zero, LEED Home By NICK SLEVIN The ABC Green Home 4.0 project is located in the picturesque San Bernardino mountain community of Crestline, California, where air temperatures fluctuate greatly, posing a more serious challenge to our Net-Zero engineering...The Rise of Sustainability in Luxury Home
Big, luxury homebuilders are focusing on sustainability more than ever by Megan Wild Within the last 10 years, the demand for eco-friendly houses has soared. This is partly due to increased sensitivity to climate change among homebuyers and their awareness of global warming’s impact on wildlife and the environment. However, it is...
The GHB Interview - Sharon Lee
Sharon Lee is the founding Executive Director of the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI), a non-profit that develops, owns, and operates housing for low-income, homeless, and formerly homeless people in Washington State. In June, two LIHI projects received Gold Nuggets for their contribution to affordable green housing. Here, Lee tells...
The Evolution of Home Building
The newly launched Modern Collection by Everett Custom Homes embraces elegance and efficiency. Creating environmentally-friendly homes that emphasize modern design features—that can pose a challenge for homeowners on the hunt. Recent reports from Realtor.com indicate the home value of modern designs increasing by 37.4 percent since...
ABC Green Home 3.0 Continues to Earn Recognition
ABC Green Home 3.0 has been recognized as ASCE-OC's 2018 Sustainable Engineering Project of the Year
If You’re Not Predicting the Future, You’re Living in The Past
Our industry has been slow to move into the realm of big data By GLENN RENNER In this magazine last month, we forecast that 2018 would be a watershed year for smart home adoption. The trend will be catapulted by interconnectivity and analytics-based automation, which simplify the user experience. This month, we have the same...
The GHB Interview: Mahesh Ramanujam
Ramanujam joined USGBC in 2009 as senior vice president of technology, and was named COO in September 2011. In December 2012, he was also named president of GBCI. In 2015, when Fedrizzi announced his plans to leave USGBC toward the end of 2016, the USGBC Board of Directors named Ramanujam as incoming CEO. What were some of your...
A Clean Slate for the New Year
Moving forward with durability in mind after a tumultuous 2017 By RON NESTOR, AIA 2017 was a great year to be in the news business. It seemed to me that "disruption" was the word of the year, as so many tumultuous events filled the calendar. Major earthquakes in Mexico, monstrous hurricanes in the Caribbean, furious fires in the...
More Innovation in Sustainable Homebuilding to Come in 2018
2018 will continue to ride the coattails of a strong sustainable 2017 By SERGIO FLORES Overall, the sentiment for U.S. homebuilding is strong. The industry ended 2017 on a strong note; builder confidence reached a 10-month high in November, despite facing natural disasters a few months prior. And to what could we credit the...
Redeveloping Brownfield Sites for Energy-Saving Advantages
Zoning for small cottage developments offers energy-efficient value for developers By KATHERINE AUSTIN There is a tremendous challenge we face in the business of producing housing in this country. The lack of affordability has reached a critical stage, specifically in the most desirable regions. Not only did the recession put an...
The Ever-Expanding Green Movement
From record improvements and cultural relevance in 2017, what will 2018 bring to the green movement? By Jason Forrest The worst-kept secret in homebuilding is that the green movement gained more steam in 2017. Where it’s headed in 2018 could be even more interesting—and not just the technology side of it—but also the culture...
High-Performance, Net-Zero American Home Building: DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY, and CONSTRUCTION
By NICK SLEVIN The original Net-Zero, LEED ABC Green Home was built at the Great park in Irvine, Calif. in 2012 with the simple goal of demonstrating that it is possible to develop affordable, entry-level single family homes well beyond current building code specifications, using products readily available from any builder’s existing...
An Oasis for Creativity in El Paso
Recently given a Gold Nugget Award of Merit for Best Affordable Housing Community, Roderick Artspace Lofts gives artists and their families affordable and efficient housing in Texas In December 2016, Jordan Foster Construction and Artspace, a non-profit organization, completed work on Roderick Artspace Lofts in El Paso, TX. Since then,...
Designed for Well-Being at Headwaters
With family-oriented and energy-efficient accommodations, Trendmaker Homes creates a new standard of country living outside Austin, Texas
Affordability, Sustainability at Core of Whisper Valley
Whisper Valley is poised to become a model in the industry for how to successfully develop sustainable and affordable communities across the country
Brookfield Residential Gives Smart Tech a Home
Brookfield Residential’s newest Smart Home powered by Amazon Alexa in Bristow, Va. demonstrates a large step forward for homebuilders embracing smart home technologies, especially where it comes to improving efficiency
A Paradigm for Multi-Family Development: Union on Queen
Bozzuto Development Company’s newest development, Union on Queen, demonstrates how affordable green housing improves the health of both the community and the planet
Community Profile: King Crossing by Beazer Homes in Katy, Texas
Beazer Homes partnered with Pulte to create King Crossing, a new master planned community offering a unique blend of the best of small-town life, resort-style living, and all that Houston has to offer By Genevieve Smith With a population of 15,591 as of 2014, the city of Katy, Texas has some serious small town charm. Historic...
Project Profile: Reclaimed Modern Home in Seattle, Wash.
With the use of photovoltaic panels, Dwell Development’s Reclaimed Modern Home scores an impressive 25 on the HERS scale By Sergio Flores Renowned builder Dwell Development based in Seattle, Wash. has been building single-family detached homes, duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes since its inception in 2005 by builder Anthony...
