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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. Sustainability. cbroderick. Fri, 02/12/2021 - 09:06.

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What Consumers Want: A Look at First-Time Homebuyer Preferences

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NAHB Policy Briefing | What homebuyers want in a new home; increases to the cost of residential construction inputs. The National Association of Home Builders ( NAHB ) regularly surveys homebuyers to better understand what consumers are looking for in their next home and community. Building Materials. Tue, 04/19/2022 - 10:44.

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

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Webinar on Demand: The New American Home 2023, High-Performance Features ibush Mon, 04/03/2023 - 18:30 In the second of two webinars about The New American Home 2023, we explore how the luxury home is also a model of resource efficiency, from next-level energy and water savings to indoor air quality and materials use.

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Decrease Lumber Use With High-Performance Building Strategies

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Lumber prices are now up to nearly $1,000 per thousand board feet, increasing the cost of a home by nearly $24,000, according to NAHB estimates. To lower the demand on the timber industry and reduce the amount of lumber used, builders may look toward sustainable timber, such as SFI- and FSC-certified lumber. Building Materials.

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How Alternative Building Systems Are Helping a Strained Workforce

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Builders battling a seemingly endless barrage of materials shortages and price hikes are finding a solution in the form of insulated concrete building systems. How Alternative Building Systems Are Helping a Strained Workforce. Mon, 03/21/2022 - 10:00.

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Most Buyers Say They Want Energy-Efficient Windows

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This resulted when the NAHB questioned buyers on window characteristics. Floor-to-ceiling windows, a new featured added to NAHB’s home buyer preference survey in 2020, were rated essential or desirable to slightly less than half (48 percent) of home buyers. Sustainability. Read More. . Energy Efficiency. Environmental.

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Ken Calligar Is Shaping a New Era of Resilient Construction

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Sustainability. One solution comes in the form of a 3D cementitious panel by Re-Structure Group that won the 2019 NAHB Global Innovation Award for its weather resistance and energy efficiency. . KC: In January 2020, we won an NAHB Global Innovation award , and it wasn’t really for the panel. Fri, 04/01/2022 - 10:39. Resilience.