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Brands's List: LEED, GreenPoint and NAHB Rating Programs
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nterestingly, NAHB in Northern California has endorsed Build It Green's 'GreenPoint Rated' 3rd party rated prescriptive-based system over its own NAHB Guidelines and LEED-H. Looking forward to seeing how things pan out in California between USGBC (where most of the LEED-H developments are getting built) and NAHB's new standards, especially while the housing market is not doing so well...
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Nov 17, 09
"2.0 Green Building Underwriting Standards Identify Increased Cash Flow"
The other improvements in the 2.0 version include incorporation of an ENERGY STAR Score Equivalency for multifamily complexes conducted during work performed for scoring properties for Green Building Securities. Also, the leading green home standard GreenPoint RATED was incorporated into the Residential Standard after an Equivalency Subcommittee ruling concurred with research funded from Pacifica Gas & Electric that GreenPoint is equivalent to LEED. Build it Green is the developer of GreenPoint RATED and it's President, Donald Simon, a Partner with the law firm Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean said "The market needs this leadership consensus approach for identifying the added value from green homes to provide the metric for homeowners to secure much warranted lower interest rates."
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The other improvements in the 2.0 version include incorporation of an ENERGY STAR Score Equivalency for multifamily complexes conducted during work performed for scoring properties for Green Building Securities. Also, the leading green home standard GreenPoint RATED was incorporated into the Residential Standard after an Equivalency Subcommittee ruling concurred with research funded from Pacifica Gas & Electric that GreenPoint is equivalent to LEED. Build it Green is the developer of GreenPoint RATED and it's President, Donald Simon, a Partner with the law firm Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean said "The market needs this leadership consensus approach for identifying the added value from green homes to provide the metric for homeowners to secure much warranted lower interest rates."
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