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Top Sustainable Features Buyers Want

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Top Sustainable Features Buyers Want. 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. Sustainability. Green Design. Sustainability. cbroderick.

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

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Smaller, Sustainable, and Stylish: The New American Home 2022. 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. Mon, 12/27/2021 - 10:15. The 2022 home has ??4,646

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Up-and-Coming Community Design Trends Reflect Post-Pandemic Lifestyle Changes

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Up-and-Coming Community Design Trends Reflect Post-Pandemic Lifestyle Changes. Housing design trends have adapted over the last two years to accommodate new lifestyle preferences following the COVID-19 pandemic, and developers are finding innovative ways to keep up with renewed demand, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reports.

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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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The New American Home 2023: A Haven on the Hill

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Designed and built by Michael Gardner, AIA, principal of Luxus Design Build and founder of Studio g Architecture, the 7,500-square-foot, two-level, four-bedroom home is a perfect blend of fun and functional design. That meant using the topography and natural materials as a guide for the home’s construction and design.

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Ken Calligar Is Shaping a New Era of Resilient Construction

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Sustainability. From cost savings to ballistic ratings, Ken Calligar says Re-Structure Group's design solutions are ushering in a new frontier of durable green building, which also offers promise for providing affordable housing. KC: In January 2020, we won an NAHB Global Innovation award , and it wasn’t really for the panel.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: New National.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly has lived in an earthbag/papercrete home that he built and consults about sustainable building design.

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