Green Building Home Certifications Continue to Grow
The NAHB GreenHotLine told us that they had just certified their 504th home since announcing the program about 18 months ago. LEED for Homes latest data show more than 3,000 certified with more than 19,000 registered.
Clearly, the housing slowdown has affected the move toward green homes. While LEED has almost tripled the number of certified homes (through September) from year-end and has increased new home registrations by 50%, the overall numbers are still disappointing, given that the program has been around for more than two years. It certainly appears that the more mainstream NAHB National Green Building Program, announced to great fanfare in February 2008, has yet to gain any significant traction among the nation’s homebuilders. One would have to conclude that the ENERGY STAR program is still the most viable and most used new home rating system in the U.S., with 17 percent market share of all new homes in 2008 and more than 20 percent in 15 states, according to the US EPA.
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