Housing Giants - October 10, 2008 - (Page 9) Viewpoint this is more life than a lot of building industry professionals expected to see. people in the Florida housing industry who thought WCI had much chance to ever make it out of Chapter 11. Last month, the firm’s interim CFO, Ernest Scheidemann, even jumped ship, and the flock of vultures grew larger. Stay tuned. WCI might be more buoyant than we think. much more efficient a green builder’s new homes are than existing homes. Here’s a wild one: the buildings we live in and work in contribute more to climate change emissions than the entire transportation sector. Do your civic duty: buy a new home! Calculate the savings in operating costs your new homes can achieve over the average existing home in your market. BPI might even be able to help. Check out their Web site at www.bpi.org. HG Data coulD Help sell new Houses I got an interesting press release the other day from The Building Performance Institute (BPI) containing some interesting factoids that might be useful in a builder’s sales offices. For instance, BPI points out that residential buildings account for 36.5 percent of the electricity consumed in the U.S. every year and 21 percent of U.S. carbon emissions. That sounds like a good way to open a conversation on how Blogs from tHe Professional Builder BencHmark anD aViD leaDersHip conference Check out Bill’s blog, Ear to the Ground, to read Bill’s observations of the many lessons from this year’s conference. www.Housinggiants.com 10.10.08.Housing giants http://www.bpi.org http://www.bpi.org/content/home/index.php http://www.bpi.org/content/home/index.php http://www.housingzone.com/blog/1360000536.html http://www.housinggiants.com
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