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At a later date, volume certiﬁcation for large-scale homebuilders could become part of LEED for Homes (LEED-H). LEED FOR HOMES LEED-H received a $375,000 grant from the Home Depot Foundation. The grant promotes initiative in the area of affordable housing. The grant stipulates that the annual Greenbuild Conference serves as a venue for the foundation’s Awards of Excellence for Affordable Housing Built Responsibly. In the summer of 2005 (early August), the USGBC launched the year-long LEED-H pilot program. LEED -H promotes the use of environmentally friendly building products by earning the applicant up to four points for using products listed in the GreenSpec Directory (www.buildinggreen.com) and/or based on a product’s speciﬁc environmentally preferable characteristics. Unlike other LEED “Products” (LEED-NC/CI/EB/CS), LEED for Homes’ certification process will be decentralized. Rather than the USGBC headquarters in Washington D.C. processing certification applications, as has been the norm since the LEED programs’ inception, regional providers will: • Verify that homes built under LEED-H meet all requirements. • Test the LEED-H pilot rating system to ensure its practicality and effectiveness. • Train home-raters and builders in green building techniques and LEED requirements. The regional provider list includes the following: • Northeast: The Vermont Energy Investment Corp.; Conservation Services Group, Inc.; The Center for Ecological Technology; Fore Solutions; Horizon Residential Energy Services, LLC; What’s Working, Inc. • Pennsylvania: The Energy Coordinating Agency of Philadelphia; Philadelphia University School of Architecture. • Texas: Contects Consultants; Architects & the Metropolitan Partnership for Energy . • Colorado: E-Star Colorado; Built Green Colorado. • New Jersey: McGram Assoc. • Michigan: The Alliance for Environmental Sustainability. • Georgia: Southface Energy Institute. • California: Davis Energy Group, Inc. • Arizona: The Scottsdale Green Building Program. • Florida: The Florida Solar Energy Center; University of Central Florida. One can check out the LEED for Homes program at www.usgbc.org/ leed/homes. Next month, in part three, we’ll continue our overview with a look at the long-standing controversy between the USGBC/ LEED prog ra m a nd t he t i mber i ndust r y and what’s being done to try and resolve it. W&C Jeffrey M. Syken is a consulting estimator in private practice. He is a lecturer on the subject of trade estimating, as well as the author of a book on the subject entitled “Principles of Trade Estimating” available from Bni Building News. ADVERTISERS’ index ADVERTISER Accelerated Building Technologies (888) 922-2353 www.accel-E-com Armstrong World Industries (877) ARMSTRONG www.armstrong.com/commceilingsna CertainTeed Ceilings (800) 233-8990 www.certainteed.com Dryvit Systems, Inc. (800) 556-7752 www.dryvit.com Extrutech Plastics, Inc. (888) 818-0118 www.epiplastics.com Fire Trak Corp. (800) 394-9875 www.ﬁretrak.com National Gypsum (800) NATIONAL www.soundbreak.info This index is provided as an additional service. The publisher does not assume any liability for errors or omissions. PAGE# 19 5 15 23 13 9 11 ADVERTISER Quiet Solution (800) 797-8159 www.QuietSolution.com/WC Stuc-O-Flex International, Inc. (800) 305-1045 www.stucoﬂex.com T-Clear Corp. (513) 870-9200 www.tclear.com Total Steel Solutions (877) 294-7958 www.totalsteel.biz Total Wall, Inc. (888) 702-9915 www.totalwall.com Trakloc Steel Framing (866) 7-TRAKLOC www.trakloc.com PAGE# 7 17 & BC 25 21 IBC 3 October 2007 | Walls & Ceilings Architect | 41 http://www.usgbc.org/leed/homes http://www.usgbc.org/leed/homes http://www.buildinggreen.com http://www.QuietSolution.com/WC http://www.armstrong.com/commceilingsna http://www.stucoflex.com http://www.certainteed.com http://www.tclear.com http://www.dryvit.com http://www.totalsteel.biz http://www.epiplastics.com http://www.totalwall.com http://www.trakloc.com http://www.firetrak.com http://www.soundbreak.info

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