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A Traditional Green Home in the Neighborhood
A 'GreenHome' demonstrates the affordability and practicality of sustainable building
By Felicia Oliver, Senior Editor
March 1, 2007
Professional Builder
When you integrate green elements early in the design process, a green home's look can fit into a typical neighborhood. And when you plan ahead, the costs of building green can be manageable. The National Homebuilder Mainstream GreenHome in Raleigh, N.C., will showcase products, systems and techniques that can be used for individual homes or large-scale developments.
Lutron Electronics and Cherokee Investment Partners teamed up to build the Mainstream GreenHome, the first home in the country to be built in a subdivision under the NAHB's Model Green Home Building Guidelines. Only three homes to date have met these guidelines.
"Not only are we cleaning and greening hundreds of brownfield sites nationally," says Tom Darden, CEO of Cherokee, "we are exploring innovative ways to integrate more sustainable features into the horizontal and vertical construction of our sites."
Builders considered the environment in various aspects of the home by using edible or drought-tolerant plants for landscaping to incorporating rainwater catchment and reuse systems.
The GreenHome is expected to be complete in early 2007. For more information, visit www.MainstreamGreenHome.com.
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