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Green Lawsuits: What They Could Mean for Home Builders
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| Submitted by: | Bill H 9/17/2009 9:25:17 AM PT |
| Location: | Greater Atlanta Area |
| Occupation: | Construction Management & Operational Excellence |
Those who rely on insurance companies to cover for their lackadaisical approach to green construction demonstrate their profound lack of understanding of business and give the construction industry a bad name. Those who are transitioning to green building should be wary of self-proclaimed experts who place their agenda above ethical behavior and the reach of law. Why should we be careful drivers? Afterall, we have automobile insurance...
| Submitted by: | green expert (greenexpert@aol.com) 1/26/2009 3:15:14 PM PT |
as usual the green expert needs to come on the field and educate hz and the entire building industry.
1.there is no zero comparison from commercial green building and residential green home building.there are millions of sq feet of leed certifed green building and less than 100 homes built to a failed nahb green home guidelines.leed started with commercial building because of the bigger impact.
2.this is why builders have o and e insurance and if the lazy writer of this article did her research of course she failed you will see there are several insurance companies that offer error and omission insurance for a lapse in policy agreements to cover this exact problem.
3. homebuilders are a failure and there are over 5 major insurers that offer green coverage,e and o insurance,and even a green insurance policy ie green building fails to live up to the hipe.adverse public opinion.this is what happens when you have a limited mentailty writer and media company that fails to perform there job.
4.of course the us is not a world leader due to the bush administrations adverse policy but if you look and research there is a consortium of insurance companies that are developing green underwriting insurance guidelines.there is to be many more than the current 5 insurance companies underwriting green insurance over the next 18 months.
5.the writer of this article should be fired immedately
for this article.
6.this is just one of the many items that was covered on the website that the green expert proposed to hz more than 8 yrs ago and hz did not see the value in this website...now more than 8 yrs later the green expert is correcting hz,their lazy writers and the entire home building industry.
| Submitted by: | Norman Tuer Jr. (Norman.Tuer@verizon.net) 12/18/2008 3:09:06 PM PT |
| Location: | Saint Michaels, Maryland |
| Occupation: | Project Manager / General Superintendent |
The final paragraph of Kristin Foster's article say's it all. While the “Green” effort presents a whole new set of challenges, accomplishing our objectives should not be one of them. All of these elements; storm water management, mechanical, water and electrical efficiency, sustainability, air and environmental quality, solar gain, and the list goes on at infinitum or at nausea depending on your point of view, are quantifiable, although many require a baseline to measure from.
Do not oversell or over commit to objectives that can not be verified by an independent third party, which needs to be agreed upon with the client prior to finalizing the contract documents.
All too often the primary source of conflict between client and contractor stem from the disparity between the competing expectations. To avoid being on different pages along the way to a successful project, it is necessary that clear, concise, documentation of both parties expectations are outlined, culminating in a mutually agreed upon set of specifications clearly defined in the contract documents.
While this pre-function will not eliminate all of these types of issues, the effort will serve to minimize them. The remaining issues will resolve themselves in most cases through constructive negotiation and verification by the previously agreed upon third party professional.
Good luck to all,
Norman.Tuer@verizon.net
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