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Webinar on Demand: The New American Home 2023, High-Performance Features

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You'll learn about how the design-build team collaborated with green building experts to achieve Emerald-level National Green Building Standard certification for the home by integrating products, systems, and best practices. This year's home in Henderson, Nev.,

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2024 International Energy Conservation Code Will Use a New Development Process

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NAHB Policy Briefing: New procedure for developing the 2024 IECC; construction job openings, hiring, and layoffs data. Preparations Begin for the 2024 National Green Building Standard Update. Improving flexibility and increasing choices for achieving compliance when using performance design. . Fri, 07/01/2022 - 11:30.

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Top Sustainable Features Buyers Want

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After surveying 3,000 recent and prospective homebuyers over the summer, NAHB identified Energy Star-rated features, an Energy Star rating for the whole house, and efficient lighting were the top preferred features. Green Design. Buyers are also thinking long-term. Read More. . Sustainability. Sustainability.

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How to Understand the Costs and Benefits of High-Performance Buildings

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NAHB outlines some of these hidden values and opportunity costs, such as the idea that a building with better indoor air quality could mean less doctor visits for a resident. NAHB says that although high-performance construction methods may come at a high price, many of those costs can be recouped. . Green Design.

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Smaller, Sustainable, and Stylish: The New American Home 2022

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The New American Home 2022 features a smaller total square footage than previous New American Homes in years past, but still maintains a sense of luxury and innovation with both artful and efficient design features. Because of a variety of permitting and design-related delays, the project could not get underway until late May of 2021.

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Building Efficiency Drives Customer Retention

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According to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), Thrive reported 26% customer retention by prioritizing third-party certification for major selling points like energy efficiency standards and product performance. Even with competition from several other builders in this development, Thrive has a 26% repeat customer rate.

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The New American Home Set to Debut Virtually Next Week

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and built by Phil Kean Design Group, TNAH 2021 will debut at IBSx next week. Its “modern treehouse” design, as described by Kean, is also designed to be net-zero and expected to receive an Emerald level status from the National Green Building Standard, says the National Association of Home Builders. Read More. .

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