Green Building Guidelines^© Residential Program: Workshops and Seminars

Today’s home buyers are looking for sustainable homes and home builders who can construct them. Are you one of them?

SBIC hosts half-day seminars (click here for a sample agenda) and full-day workshops designed to introduce builders to the concepts of sustainable, or green, home design. Contractors, remodelers, residential architects, and interested home buyers can also gain a lot. Your registration fee at each event (click here for a list of upcoming seminars) includes a copy of SBIC's Green Building Guidelines: Meeting the Demand for Low-Energy, Resource-Efficient Homes©.

Based on principles outlined in the Guidelines©, expert instructors walk you through the basics of green building design:

• Sustainable site planning

• Environmentally sound building materials and equipment

• An improved building envelope

• Energy efficiency and renewable energy strategies

• Efficient water use, both indoors and out

• Improved indoor environmental quality (air quality, thermal, visual and acoustical comfort)

• Construction waste management practices

• Optimum home operations and maintenance

Instructors also cover principles involved in marketing green homes.

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Green Building Guidelines: Meeting the Demand for Low-Energy, Resource-Efficient Homes^©, Fifth Edition

Written by builders for builders, this nationally distributed primer is a must for architects, engineers, and others interested in producing and living in greener homes.

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