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Jeremy Truog has been a Green Rater with the Green Home Institute for some time. He covers north west and mid Michigan from Traverse City area. He recently has just passed the Green Rater exam through the USGBC. He now can officially begin rating new 2011 projects.
Contact him today to get your project started.
Sustainable Environmental Services. Traverse City
Ph.231-922-5907
Email: Jeremy@SESTC.com
Christin Kappel, the Indiana facilitator has officially passed her Green Rater exam. She covers all of Indiana. She can now officially begin rating new 2011 projects.
Contact her today to get your project started.
Office: 317-773-2207
E-mail: ckappel@alliancees.org
A recent project in Chicago has garnered national media attention. Here are links to a few of the highlights: FOX – Chicago NBC – Chicago
NBC – Chicago
Chicago Magazine recently profiled a gut rehab home that achieved LEED Platinum certification, and included a photo tour of the Helenowski residence. The home “now energy-neutral or better, meaning it generates enough power to meet its own needs and to sell excess into the power grid.”
Also featured is an affordable green home remodel selling for $150,000.
View details and the photo tour at the Chicago Magazine online blog.
More information below
Joining USGBC is a corporate opportunity, join USGBC-IN Chapter and your individual voice can be heard. Enjoy the many benefits of chapter membership that help you stay competitive, grow your business, and make the best contacts in the green building industry:
- Member-only discounts and networking events – local event fees are discounted for chapter members. Monthly meetings are free!
- Get a fantastic array of green building tools and educational resources.
- Be noticed – membership sets your organization apart.
- Build relationships in the local construction industry.
- Meet, learn and network with other building professionals who share the same passion for green building.
- Benefit from company and individual names being listed in one of the largest directories of green building practitioners and supporters via the USGBC National website and our local chapter homepage.
- Get involved – help build much-needed awareness for green building in Indiana.
- Be recognized as a leader in supporting a better built environment.
- Shape and proactively promote local green initiatives through chapter and committee involvement.
- Vote in local chapter business/issues.
Sign up today and receive a one-year membership:
$65 for regular membership, $50 for national members, $25 for students.
For more information regarding USGBC Indiana, please visit our web site at usgbc-in.org.
Habitat is pleased to announce its partnership with HabitatPro, a program designed for professionals who are interested in accumulating the now required LEED project experience in order to sit for the LEED AP exams. HabitatPro PX facilitates a rare opportunity to learn LEED by actually doing LEED! Participants will gain “personal involvement” with the LEED project by having the opportunity to be a part of all apsects of the Habitat LEED project including design, construction, documentation and educational development. Participants can expect to receive:
- a personalized letter of attestation from BOULD
- personal hands-on involvement on a LEED registered project
- weekly participation opportunities
- tracked roles and hours via BOULD’s comprehensive database
- partnership with Habitat for Humanity in revitalizing your community
The upcoming project Design Charrette is Monday, March 14. For tuition, participation and registration, please visit GoHabitatPro.com.
(Note, if you can’t make this meeting there are still many opportunities)
USGBC has created an online tool that will allow anyone to “kick the tires” on taking a single- or multi-family building through LEED for Homes certification. The Online Scoring Tool (OST) is available at no cost through www.leedforhomes.org and provides a great way to evaluate the LEED rating system.
The user-friendly Online Scoring Tool (OST) allows free access to anyone that creates a web site account. Once logged in, people can score multiple rojects using the online scoring tool.
Two Scoring Paths
Projects can choose to take one of two paths with the LEED Homes scoring tool. One path called the Quick Score, allows a builder to answer a green home version of 20 questions about a sample project. Its perfect for a builder that has had a HERS Rating performed on a previous home and is wondering how that home would have scored in LEED. Once the questions are answered, the scoring tool gives an estimate on the potential LEED certification level.
A more advanced path allows the user to go through the LEED for Homes rating system in detail for a specific project, with credit-by-credit analysis. Each credit can be selected as Yes, No, or Maybe. Best of all, the online tool does an impressive job of digesting the extensive LEED for Homes Reference Guide into salient tool-tip help that can be brought up in a popup window. This explanation will help people decide whether or not they want to pursue a specific LEED credit or not.
The LEED for Homes Online Scoring Tool (OST) is available at no cost through www.leedforhomes.org
