Wilkes County Home Builders Association - Wilkes County, North Carolina

Going For The Green
2009 Home & Garden Show at Wilkes Community College
Sign up as an exhibitor on our Home & Garden web page

Wilkes County HBA Vice-President Chad Collins/CNC Construction has been appointed to the newly-forming North Carolina Green Building Council sponsored by NCHBA. Chad will also chair the Wilkes County HBA’s own forming council...including what to even call our Council. (Blue Ridge Green Building Council. Foothills Green Building Council.) Whatever! And other formative issues! Including the sponsorship and direction of the 2009 Home & Garden Show at Wilkes Community College.
Under the direction of the Association’s Board of Directors and through Chad’s leadership…we welcome your direct involvement. Please contact the Wilkes HBA office for details on how your expertise might benefit this emerging process.

What NAHB Green Means

NAHB Green includes services and resources available to home builders and local home builder associations all over the country. These include:

The NAHB Green Scoring Tool. With this free online tool, any builder in any part of the country can gauge how green a project will be. The tool provides a “design report” that compiles the information the builder has provided and scores the home to rate it as Bronze, Silver, or Gold depending on the points accrued. Builders can also obtain design and technical assistance as they plan what green features to include. The Web site also includes a list of approved verifiers with whom the builder contracts to conduct two inspections, including one before close-in, and gather all the necessary documents to submit to the NAHB Research Center for national certification.

The NAHB Green Certification Service (that is, the NAHB Research Center) will train and register this network of verifiers throughout the country who will be audited regularly for practices and conflicts of interest. Standardized training will ensure the same rigor of inspections and document collection throughout the country.

The latest professional designation from the NAHB University of Housing for builders, remodelers, and other related housing industry members is included in NAHB Green: the new Certified Green Professional Designation. To qualify, applicants must complete NAHB's "Green Building for Building Professionals” course and business management course requirements. By early March, 63 industry professionals had received their designations with more qualifying every week.

A variety of green educational opportunities at the International Builders’ Show and other venues provide the latest in green building technologies. The NAHB National Green Building Conference is an especially important event to attend. This is the only national conference targeted to green building for the mainstream residential building industry. Don't miss this opportunity to gather contacts, information and ideas by networking with designers and suppliers and attending exceptional education sessions, May 11-13 in New Orleans.

The opportunity to be recognized is a clear benefit to all homebuilders, and the National Green Building Awards do just that. Members are honored in a variety of categories, and winners enjoy significant promotion in all NAHB Green efforts.

Finally, NAHB Green provides tools for the network of existing and upcoming HBA-sponsored green building programs and efforts. Resources include assistance in starting a local effort, finding the best organizational structure, marketing and advertising tools, assistance on tying into technical resources like the Certification Service and Verification Administration as well as non-technical advocacy, builder and public education, and alliance opportunities.